Re: Meetings in other regions

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja at uoregon.edu>]

Scott W Brim wrote:
> On 07/14/2006 10:01 AM, Fred Baker allegedly wrote:
> > Once upon a time,
> > the guideline I followed was that about 1/6 of the IETF was from Europe,
> > a smattering was from elsewhere, and the lion's share was from the US,
> > so I scheduled a meeting every other year in Europe, the odd one in
> > random places, and the lion's share in the US. Those statistics are
> > essentially meaningless now.
>
> Why are they meaningless?  The IETF should overwhelmingly meet where
> the participants are, wherever that might be.  I still like your
> algorithm.

I think he's saying the old heuristic is inaccurate because the 
distribution of participants has changed. looking at the pie chart, the 
US represents slight less than 50% of the participants and .jp .kr .cn 
make up almost 1/4

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06jul/slides/plenaryw-0.pdf

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