Re: Meetings in other regions

[Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>]

Hi,

I think I am somewhat confused by this discussion.

In one place you say:

On 14 jul 2006, at 11.04, Fred Baker wrote:

> The IETF should indeed meet where our participants come from. That  
> was my initial comment (from the mike) on "are we from Latin  
> America, Africa, or Antarctica?" I think that remains to be shown.

and in another:

On 14 jul 2006, at 11.55, Fred Baker wrote:
> from the norht american stats. I would encourage you to compare the  
> european and asiapac meetings, from the proceedings. My observation  
> is that the region/country the meeting happens in tends to be  
> exaggerated. Yokohama, for example, was 1977 folks, of which 1/4  
> were US and perhaps 40% were Japanese. Seoul was similar.

so does this mean that when the meeting is in NA, then the NA  
population is also exaggerated.

Or rather that a large number of participants will come from whatever  
region the meeting is in
(at least for the NA, EU, or Asiapac regions - we have no evidence on  
LAC or Africa), giving us no objective criteria for weighing one  
region over another.

If this holds, don't we have a parity situation where the meetings  
should alternate equally between these 3 regions with maybe an  
occasional meeting in a developing area, like an easy to get to  
region in Africa or LAC.

a.



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