Hello, On 11/15/12 6:11 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 15/11/2012 03:43, Melinda Shore wrote: > > We'd reached 50 attendees from China at IETF 63 before we even > started seriously negotiating the Beijing meeting. It seems to > me that the causality is mainly in the opposite direction: > participation causes meetings, not meetings cause participation. >
Having a metric for considering having a meeting in a give region would be really nice, so we can stop arguing over smoke. If 50 is a magic number, well, we Latin America are not that far, I'm confident we'll be there in a few meetings. I do believe that regions wanting to have an IETF meeting should also give back in terms of active participation, I agree with that. > (IMHO, there is some value to the IETF in having one-off > attendees who don't subsequently participate: they learn what > the IETF is and hopefully tell others about it. This can't be a > bad thing, but it's definitely secondary.) Agreed. > > Brian >
