Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs

[Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft at CS.UCL.AC.UK>]

In message <71C4C55F198BD211B24F0000F842F15804B06C81 at reoexc6.reo.cpqcorp.net>, 
"Parkinson, Jonathan" typed:

 >>There is more than America out there ?
 >>;-)
 

you mean america still exists - i thought it was actually a myth like
atlantis....


 >>
 >>
 >>-----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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 >>
 >>

 cheers

   jon