ICANN constituencies, mission and participants are way different than IETF
and an important number of folks receive financial support to participate.
I believe the discussion is not really about if Buenos Aires is the right
location or not but if by meeting in a particular region that will drive
more engagement and participation from the people from that region.
-J
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Patrik Fältström <paf(_at_)frobbit(_dot_)se>
wrote:
ICANN 48 is to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17-21 November 2013,
and I am looking forward to it!
Patrik
On 29 maj 2013, at 04:27, Arturo Servin <aservin(_at_)lacnic(_dot_)net> wrote:
Perhaps not. Buenos Aires is also a big hub of technology in Latin
America. In addition as it was mentioned it relatively close from Sao
Paulo, Montevideo and Santiago. Also there are direct flights from other
major cities in Peru and Colombia.
Going to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Mexico City or Santiago will
always
split audiences as these are the major tech hubs in the region (also add
Bogota, Lima, San Jose and other cities). So, I think it is not
comparable with Australia.
as
On 5/28/13 11:09 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 5/28/13 3:06 PM, l(_dot_)wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk wrote:
The centres for networking industry in Australia are Melbourne and
Sydney, in that order.
It's a bit like IETF 51 being held in Grimsby, not London or Cambridge.
Okay. So, should we be extrapolating from this to what
we can expect from Brazilians if we meet in Buenos
Aires?
Melinda