Re: IETF Hosting Opportunity - March 2009

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>]

Alexey Melnikov wrote:

> Lars Eggert wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2007-11-27, at 22:20, ext Terry Monroe wrote:
> >
> > > The event is now planned to take place in North America, specific  
> > > location
> > > still to be determined.
> >
> > Similar to IETF-67, which moved from Europe to San Diego, we're 
> > again  moving a meeting that was planned to happen in Europe to North 
> > America.
> >
> > Looking at IETF-60 to IETF-70, 8 out of the 10 IETFs were in North  
> > America. I'd be good if we could re-balance this in the future.
>
> +1.

Maybe I should elaborate. In several WG where I am active at least half 
of participants are from Europe or Asia.
Not all of them are working for companies that can sponsor them to go to 
IETF meetings or at least many employers are reluctant to send people to 
IETF meetings happening across the ocean (no doubts, this works the same 
way for North American). So having IETF meetings in Paris and Prague was 
very useful to get such people more involved.


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