RE: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs

["Parkinson, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Parkinson at compaq.com>]

There is more than America out there ?

;-)



-----Original Message-----
From: John Stracke [mailto:francis at ECAL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:21 PM
To: ietf at ietf.org
Subject: Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs


Graham Klyne wrote:

> But I am still uncomfortable with it.  It implies that, somehow, any
non-US
> participant is somehow a second class citizen, who is permitted to attend
> purely as a concession by the US elite whose organization this is.  Maybe
> that also is true -- but I don't have to like it.  I very much prefer the
> "pretense"

In other words, the pretense is self-fulfilling: by claiming (and striving)
to
be global, the IETF avoids driving away non-US participants, which makes the
IETF more truly global.

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