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Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 12:16:51
On 5/23/13 8:02 PM, David Conrad wrote:
On May 23, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Melinda Shore 
<melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
So the question is why we aren't seeing more drafts, reviews, and
discussions from people in Central and South America,
Language?
It would seem likely when the participation is heaviliy biased towards equipment vendors and software tooling that the participants would be more representative of where the concentration of the development sideo of that work occurs. Comparative advantage isn't just the domain of agricultural products, extractive industries, and low-cost manufacturing. That seems likely to be part and parcel of the diversity discussion.