> It seems to me that a static participant base would clearly > be more of an issue than age, per se. There's pretty clearly > some churn, whether it's because of an influx of people from > a new (to the IETF) geographic area, or because of an influx > of people wanting to work on a new (to the IETF) problem > area, and that's a very, very, very good thing.
ietf, nanog, ripe, ... meetings all generally have 1/3 newcomers. janog less so. randy
