Subject: Some Comments for Tutorial slides presented in IETF 89 Date: Wed, Mar
05, 2014 at 06:51:40AM +0100 Quoting Abdussalam Baryun
(abdussalambaryun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com):
AB5- Slide 5, shows f2f (i.e. face to face) attendance of participants
which increased between 1996 to 2002, in average above 2000. That is a 8
year duration with many meetings per year (totally about 24 f2f event) with
numbers of about 2000 attendees and then decreased after 2002 becoming in
average above 1000 and less than 1500 attendees. IMHO, the community had
not continued to attend because of possible difficulties or high
probability of waste time, with slow production, also the diversity problem
that still IETF needs to fix.
dot.com.bubble.burst
That is quite enough as explanation. The 49th in San Diego still is the
largest one in terms of participants. And it was quite crazy because of
its sheer size. And, of course, the glögg. BTDTGTTS.
I think it is a safe bet to couple participant numbers to the amount
of big spender VC being thrown over the industry, and that in turn is
related to the general state of economy in the world. Possibly out of
scope for the IETF to fix.
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