Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-13 Thread Martin Rex
ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: On 9/7/2010 5:41 PM, Ross Callon wrote: It's my sense that it's increasingly difficult to do work in the IETF without being physically present at meetings, as well... A significant amount of IETF meeting participants that have their expenses sponsored

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 9/7/2010 5:41 PM, Ross Callon wrote: It's my sense that it's increasingly difficult to do work in the IETF without being physically present at meetings, as well... I think that this has been true since the first IETF (at least if you replace the word increasingly with the word very).

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 9/7/2010 2:50 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: Dave and I don't always agree :-) I don't think we've got either the database of people not attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring them in if we did (e.g. N pnac's Well, we agree on this. But I class this as a failure or at

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 9/7/10 6:13 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: Michael == Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net writes: Michael I don't think we've got either the database of people not Michael attending because of costs nor a good model for

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-08 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 8 sep 2010, at 3:13, Marshall Eubanks wrote: or people who only attend meetings in their home region, Am I imagining things or are more and more American attendees foregoing meetings outside North America? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Richardson
Joel == Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com writes: Michael I don't think we've got either the database of people not Michael attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring Michael them in if we did (e.g. N pnac's times some percentage who Do we at least have a list of

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 9/7/10 1:55 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 9/3/10 3:45 PM, Hascall Sharp wrote: Yes. The IETF is having too many meetings where physical presence is required in order to participate effectively in the work. We have the same number as when I

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 9/8/10 9:48 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: Joel == Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com writes: Michael I don't think we've got either the database of people not Michael attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring Michael them in if we did (e.g. N pnac's times some

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Jelte Jansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/2010 09:06 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: People from Europe, Japan, Australia, and some other countries don't need a visa at all to go to an IETF meeting in the US. People from China, India and the other countries are generally backed by

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Hascall Sharp
On 8/30/10 3:57 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: ...snip... Am I missing something? ...snip... Yes. The IETF is having too many meetings where physical presence is required in order to participate effectively in the work. It seems to me that IETF is going in the wrong direction in terms of

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/30/2010 1:05 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: Also big corporations do have limited budget for IETF participation, For most self-funded participants, the difference between their budget for travel and the budget a corporation provides is massive. For example, the IETF main conference

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 9/3/10 3:45 PM, Hascall Sharp wrote: On 8/30/10 3:57 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: ...snip... Am I missing something? ...snip... Yes. The IETF is having too many meetings where physical presence is required in order to participate effectively in the work. We have the same number as

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread James M. Polk
At 05:45 PM 9/3/2010, Hascall Sharp wrote: On 8/30/10 3:57 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: ...snip... Am I missing something? ...snip... Yes. The IETF is having too many meetings where physical presence is required in order to participate effectively in the work. Creating the ability to mimic

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Janet P Gunn
: IETF Attendance by continent At 05:45 PM 9/3/2010, Hascall Sharp wrote: On 8/30/10 3:57 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: ...snip... Am I missing something? ...snip... Yes. The IETF is having too many meetings where physical presence is required in order to participate effectively in the work

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
absolutely no hats On Sep 7, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 9/3/10 3:45 PM, Hascall Sharp wrote: Yes. The IETF is having too many meetings where physical presence is required in order to participate effectively in the work. We

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Michael StJohns
Dave and I don't always agree :-) I don't think we've got either the database of people not attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring them in if we did (e.g. N pnac's times some percentage who would still not attend because of other issues times some percentage where the

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Ross Callon
It's my sense that it's increasingly difficult to do work in the IETF without being physically present at meetings, as well... I think that this has been true since the first IETF (at least if you replace the word increasingly with the word very). I also think that this is true of other

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Michael Richardson
Michael == Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net writes: Michael I don't think we've got either the database of people not Michael attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring Michael them in if we did (e.g. N pnac's times some percentage who Do we at least have a list

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: Michael == Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net writes: Michael I don't think we've got either the database of people not Michael attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring Michael them in if we did (e.g. N

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-07 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 7, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Ross Callon wrote: It's my sense that it's increasingly difficult to do work in the IETF without being physically present at meetings, as well... I think that this has been true since the first IETF (at least if you replace the word increasingly with the

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Yoav Nir
: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Christer Holmberg Sent: 06 September 2010 08:17 To: Andrew G. Malis; Glen Zorn Cc: Randall Gellens; IETF-Discussion list; Hadriel Kaplan Subject: RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent Hi, I assume Hawaii has

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Glen Zorn
Christer Holmberg [mailto:christer.holmb...@ericsson.com] writes: Hi, I assume Hawaii has the same visa issues as the rest of US... Of course, and the same heavily armed ICE agents. As an aside, the only other place I've ever encountered armed border guards was at the Austrian/Slovakian

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Christer Holmberg
-Discussion list'; 'Hadriel Kaplan' Subject: RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent Christer Holmberg [mailto:christer.holmb...@ericsson.com] writes: Hi, I assume Hawaii has the same visa issues as the rest of US... Of course, and the same heavily armed ICE agents

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Christer Holmberg
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Yoav Nir Sent: 6. syyskuuta 2010 10:06 To: IETF-Discussion list Subject: RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent True. But the visa issues seem to be the worst part

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Glen Zorn
Yoav Nit [mailto://y...@checkpoint.com] writes: ... I would go so far as to say that getting a US visa seems easier than getting one to China. Who are the people for whom it's easier to visit a European country than it is to visit the US? Umm, Americans? I have lived outside the US for

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Glen Zorn
Christer Holmberg [mailto://christer.holmb...@ericsson.com] writes: I guess the chinese (and other affected nationalities) can speak for themselves, but as far as I know it is not that easy to get a US visa - even with company backup etc. I have never heard about people having problems

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Christer Holmberg
Personally I don't care that much where the meetings take place - I am more interested WHEN they take place. For me it is the PEOPLE that make a meeting good or bad - not the location. There are people working in much worse conditions than we are, and still they manage to do a great job.

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Xiangsong Cui
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Christer Holmberg Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 3:52 PM To: Yoav Nir; IETF-Discussion list Subject: RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent I guess the chinese

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Tim Bray
I should point out that Canada has most of the logistical advantages the usa enjoys, while imposing quite a bit less visa pain. - Tim On Sep 5, 2010 3:39 PM, Andrew G. Malis agma...@gmail.com wrote: I've been to several conferences at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. Both the hotel and

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Glen Zorn
Tim Bray [mailto:tb...@textuality.com] writes: I should point out that Canada has most of the logistical advantages the usa enjoys, while imposing quite a bit less visa pain. Well, yes, except that in my experience direct international flight to Canada are a lot more expensive than international

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-06 Thread Fernando Gont
Tim Bray wrote: I should point out that Canada has most of the logistical advantages the usa enjoys, while imposing quite a bit less visa pain. Actually, based on my own experience, getting a Canadian visa is usually *faster* than getting a US visa, but probably much more *painful*. That's my

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-05 Thread Andrew G. Malis
I've been to several conferences at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. Both the hotel and the attached convention center are large enough to host several IETFs simultaneously. Cheers, Andy On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Glen Zorn g...@net-zen.net wrote: Hadriel Kaplan

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-05 Thread Christer Holmberg
; Hadriel Kaplan Subject: Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent I've been to several conferences at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. Both the hotel and the attached convention center are large enough to host several IETFs simultaneously. Cheers, Andy

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2 sep 2010, at 7:40, Christer Holmberg wrote: In my opinion, the discussion whether we should change the meeting calendar (not having meetings during summer vacation months etc) was much more interesting and useful. To revisit that: if we move up all the meetings by one month, we gain a

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-02 Thread Fernando Gont
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: A february meeting would be in the coldest part of winter, so that meeting would have to be in a place where winters aren't too harsh. But then, march in Minneapolis is no picnic either. Even better: In the southern hemisphere, February and March is Summer time.

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-02 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 9/1/2010 2:07 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: I think it is more important to think about where the IETF is headed and where Internet and networking work seems to be happening in the world. From that perspective I would personally prefer to see 1:1:1 +1 And I think the statistics do show that

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 31, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Consider that contributors usually start as newcomers, attend several meetings, then write a draft, I don't know about you, but I wrote drafts before my first meeting. Me too. I actually had an RFC published two months before

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Clint Chaplin
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Randall Gellens rg+i...@qualcomm.com wrote: At 10:08 AM +0700 9/1/10, Glen Zorn wrote:   Why Kauai?  You list detailed reasons why Hawaii is logical and   solves for many of the problems, but you don't say why this island.  Because it's the nicest,

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Glen Zorn
Clint Chaplin [mailto:clint.chap...@gmail.com] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Randall Gellens rg+i...@qualcomm.com wrote: At 10:08 AM +0700 9/1/10, Glen Zorn wrote:   Why Kauai?  You list detailed reasons why Hawaii is logical and   solves for many of the problems, but you

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Tobias Gondrom
On 09/01/2010 07:35 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: On Aug 31, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Consider that contributors usually start as newcomers, attend several meetings, then write a draft, I don't know about you, but I wrote drafts before my first meeting. Me too. I actually had an

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On 08/28/2010 12:28 EDT, Adrian Farrel wrote: And even closer to 3:2:2 ? I think that people have unreasonable expectations about what we can do here. There are 3 meetings per year, and 3 meeting regions being considered, and we are generally

RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Ross Callon
: Re: IETF Attendance by continent On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On 08/28/2010 12:28 EDT, Adrian Farrel wrote: And even closer to 3:2:2 ? I think that people have unreasonable expectations about what we can do here. There are 3 meetings per year, and 3 meeting regions being

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Marshall Ross -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:56 AM To: Scott Brim Cc: Adrian Farrel; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:25

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Stephan Wenger
[mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:56 AM To: Scott Brim Cc: Adrian Farrel; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On 08/28/2010 12:28 EDT, Adrian Farrel wrote: And even

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Joel Jaeggli
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:56 AM To: Scott Brim Cc: Adrian Farrel; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Scott Brim

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Doug Barton
Marshall, While I admire your math skills I think you're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. (In the IETF? Perish the thought!) 1. Figure out what the desired ratio is 2. Add up the total number of meetings represented by the ratio 3. Multiply by 2 to arrive at number N 4.

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Jari Arkko
I think we are over-analyzing this. Do not be too focused on the numbers, or whether current pick your metric points to 1, 1.7, or 2. I think it is more important to think about where the IETF is headed and where Internet and networking work seems to be happening in the world. From that

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Michael StJohns
, September 01, 2010 10:56 AM To: Scott Brim Cc: Adrian Farrel; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On 08/28/2010 12:28 EDT, Adrian Farrel wrote: And even closer to 3:2:2 ? I think that people have unreasonable expectations

RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Christer Holmberg
...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Jari Arkko Sent: 2. syyskuuta 2010 0:07 To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent I think we are over-analyzing this. Do not be too focused on the numbers, or whether current pick your metric points to 1, 1.7, or 2. I think it is more important

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com To: Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl Cc: IETF-Discussion list ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:33 PM On 30 aug 2010, at 21:57, Olaf Kolkman wrote: If you want to be fair to the individual participants you

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:43 AM, t.petch wrote: If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by putting fairly

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 31 aug 2010, at 1:13, Tobias Gondrom wrote: My vote is strongly in favor of 1:1:1. 1. First, the location _is_ a significant barrier to entry for newcomers and other contributors. Optimizing only for the current status quo does create a strong perpetual cycle of self reinforcing structure

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/30/2010 12:54 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 8/30/10 1:53 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: I was expecting something like: pi:e:sqrt(-1) Given the irrationality this topic evokes, that seems about right. ;-) could lead to a new branch of the field: affective computing. or at least an

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Randall Gellens wrote: Why Kauai? You list detailed reasons why Hawaii is logical and solves for many of the problems, but you don't say why this island. Because it's the nicest, obviously. :) We can even rotate islands if people get bored. Well,

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Donald Eastlake
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hkap...@acmepacket.com wrote: On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Randall Gellens wrote: Why Kauai?  You list detailed reasons why Hawaii is logical and solves for many of the problems, but you don't say why this island. Because it's the nicest,

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, August 30, 2010 21:57 +0200 Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: The recent remark on bias against individuals[*] made me think about weighing the location preference by number of participants from certain regions. Suppose an individual from Asia attends all IETFs then her

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Glen Zorn
Hadriel Kaplan [mailto://hkap...@acmepacket.com] writes: ... Why Kauai? You list detailed reasons why Hawaii is logical and solves for many of the problems, but you don't say why this island. Because it's the nicest, obviously. :) I strongly disagree: the leeward coast of Maui (in

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-31 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:08 AM +0700 9/1/10, Glen Zorn wrote: Why Kauai? You list detailed reasons why Hawaii is logical and solves for many of the problems, but you don't say why this island. Because it's the nicest, obviously. :) I strongly disagree: the leeward coast of Maui (in particular, Kihei

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread David A. Bryan
I also certainly didn't see consensus for 1 1 1. I got the sense there was a good bit of support for 2 1 1 and some for 3 2 1. BTW, the survey that just went out lacks 2 1 1 as choice, a seemingly glaring error given that many on this thread seemed to support it and it most closely matched the

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/27/2010 2:19 AM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: However, I also believe that the outreach component is an important one to the viability/goodwill of/towards the organization. Olaf, I don't understand this assertion. It's the sort of statement that is easy to make and sounds good, but it's

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:35 PM -0700 8/28/10, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 8/27/2010 2:19 AM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: However, I also believe that the outreach component is an important one to the viability/goodwill of/towards the organization. Olaf, I don't understand this assertion. It's the sort of statement

RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Ross Callon
I also feel that 3:2:2 is about the right ratio. Ross -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Farrel Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 12:28 PM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent And even closer to 3:2:2

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Robert Kisteleki
I also feel that 3:2:2 is about the right ratio. Actually, the correct ratio is pi:e:sqrt(2). Furthermore, one can prove that, given enough IETFs, we can converge to this close enough that we'll be within _everyone's_ error margin! Robert ___ Ietf

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 30 aug 2010, at 21.46, Robert Kisteleki wrote: I also feel that 3:2:2 is about the right ratio. Actually, the correct ratio is pi:e:sqrt(2). Furthermore, one can prove that, given enough IETFs, we can converge to this close enough that we'll be within _everyone's_ error margin! I was

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 8/30/10 1:53 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 30 aug 2010, at 21.46, Robert Kisteleki wrote: I also feel that 3:2:2 is about the right ratio. Actually, the correct ratio is pi:e:sqrt(2). Furthermore, one can prove that, given enough IETFs, we can converge to this close enough that

Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Olaf Kolkman
The recent remark on bias against individuals[*] made me think about weighing the location preference by number of participants from certain regions. Suppose an individual from Asia attends all IETFs then her costs are that for attending 6 IETFs she gets to travel 1x regional and 5x

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 30 aug 2010, at 21.57, Olaf Kolkman wrote: If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by putting fairly

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 30 aug 2010, at 21.57, Olaf Kolkman wrote: If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that regularly attends the IETF.

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 30 aug 2010, at 22.10, Melinda Shore wrote: On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 30 aug 2010, at 21.57, Olaf Kolkman wrote: If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Ross Callon
- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Olaf Kolkman Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 3:58 PM To: IETF-Discussion list Subject: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent The recent remark on bias against individuals[*] made me think about weighing

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
That is a well defined target metric. It is defensible. It is not the one the community has used up till now. One could also aim to minimize total cost (or total pain). Arguably, that would place all the meetings in california. Up to till now, we have worked on a balance between those two

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30 aug 2010, at 21:57, Olaf Kolkman wrote: If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by putting fairly

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
The obvious answer is to pick a location that is equi-distant or equally expensive for most people, and does not meet too often in one contintent. There is such a place: Hawaii. It is fairly mid-point between APAC and the Americas, and just slightly farther from Europe (well, a lot farther

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30 aug 2010, at 23:47, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: Therefore, I propose we meet in Hawaii (and Kauai in particular) from now on. We can even rotate islands if people get bored. No, we'd still have to rotate oceans. Iceland is nice and close to both NA and EU (farther north generally helps),

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Richard L. Barnes
I vote for Mauritius. I'm sure AfriNIC would be glad to host. --Richard On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 30 aug 2010, at 23:47, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: Therefore, I propose we meet in Hawaii (and Kauai in particular) from now on. We can even rotate islands if

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:47 PM -0400 8/30/10, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: The obvious answer is to pick a location that is equi-distant or equally expensive for most people, and does not meet too often in one contintent. There is such a place: Hawaii. It is fairly mid-point between APAC and the Americas, and just

RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Ross Callon rcal...@juniper.net And even closer to 3:2:2 ? I also feel that 3:2:2 is about the right ratio. Well, 5:3:3 (a ratio of .833, NA/others) is even closer to the 1.7:1:1 (.850) of the data than 3:2:2 (.750, off by .100). (2:1:1 of course gives 1.0, a variance of

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Tobias Gondrom
ratio. Ross -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Farrel Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 12:28 PM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent And even closer to 3:2:2 ? - Original Message

RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Robin Uyeshiro
: IETF Attendance by continent At 5:47 PM -0400 8/30/10, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: The obvious answer is to pick a location that is equi-distant or equally expensive for most people, and does not meet too often in one contintent. There is such a place: Hawaii. It is fairly mid-point between APAC

Re: RE: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Scott W Brim
First I like the idea of Hawaii because flights and hotels can be inexpensive even from Europe (although Hilo might be cheaper and just as easy to get to as Honolulu). However I still think we need to account for actual participation in the equation to decide which places to hold meetings.

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-28 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net On 8/26/2010 2:08 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Thank you for providing this but this data seems to support something closer to 2-1-1 than 1-1-1 I took there to be a reasonable consensus from that that 1-1-1 made the most sense. I

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-28 Thread Sam Hartman
Noel == Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu writes: I suspect that a more nuanced analysis would have this as 1.7 and shrinking : 1 and stable : 1 and stable. Noel and his conclusion: I would support 2:1:1 for the present, with an intention to review that in 2-3

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-28 Thread Adrian Farrel
And even closer to 3:2:2 ? - Original Message - From: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu To: Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:14 PM Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent Noel == Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu writes

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-28 Thread David Morris
wrote: And even closer to 3:2:2 ? - Original Message - From: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu To: Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:14 PM Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent Noel == Noel Chiappa j

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Brim
On 08/28/2010 12:28 EDT, Adrian Farrel wrote: And even closer to 3:2:2 ? +0.2 ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-27 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: During my IAOC chair plenary talk at IETF78 (slides are in the proceedings) I asked a question about continuing the current meeting policy (3 in North America, 2 in Europe, 1 in Asia in two year period (3-2-1) ) or changing to a 1-1-1 policy

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/26/2010 2:08 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Thank you for providing this but this data seems to support something closer to 2-1-1 than 1-1-1 ... (and sorry I just joined the thread now - been on vacation ) Cullen, The rest of the thread explored this issue by a number of us, looking at

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/26/2010 2:44 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: but I still don't see how people come to 1-1-1, could you enlighten me. I offered my own comments in the thread, including my version of wandering around the data. I even commented that 2-1-1 had some justification but that 1-1-1 appears to

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-27 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 8/26/2010 2:08 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Thank you for providing this but this data seems to support something closer to 2-1-1 than 1-1-1 ... (and sorry I just joined the thread now - been on vacation ) Cullen, The rest of the

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-26 Thread Cullen Jennings
Bob, Thank you for providing this but this data seems to support something closer to 2-1-1 than 1-1-1. How do you get to the 1-1-1 conclusion because I can't figure out how to get there with this data. It seems tome the ratio of NA To Asia is closer to 2 than 1 any way you slice it. Cullen

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-26 Thread Cullen Jennings
I read the thread, but I still don't see how people come to 1-1-1, could you enlighten me. Seriously, I know this sounds facetiously but in the case, I really am trying to understand how you come to that conclusion out of this data. On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-26 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Thank you for providing this but this data seems to support something closer to 2-1-1 than 1-1-1. How do you get to the 1-1-1 conclusion because I can't figure out how to get there with this data. It seems tome the ratio of NA To Asia is

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Bob == Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com writes: Bob A question for you. Should we select meeting venues to Bob minimize the cost/time/etc. of all attendees or just, for Bob example, w.g. chairs? Many people have suggested that the IAOC Bob should be looking at overall attendee

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread DOLLY, MARTIN C (ATTLABS)
...@comcast.net Cc: Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com; IETF discussion list ietf@ietf.org Sent: Fri Aug 06 18:37:15 2010 Subject: Re: IETF Attendance by continent Mike, On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: Bob - Would it be possible to get two additional version of this chart? 1

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/6/2010 1:44 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: During my IAOC chair plenary talk at IETF78 (slides are in the proceedings) I asked a question about continuing the current meeting policy (3 in North ... Bob, These numbers probably need to be correlated with the venue of each meeting. One would

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/6/2010 5:37 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: A question for you. Should we select meeting venues to minimize the cost/time/etc. of all attendees or just, for example, w.g. chairs? Many people have suggested that the IAOC should be looking at overall attendee costs, but there might be a difference

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/7/2010 6:03 PM, Fred Baker wrote: On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: I'd really rather the IETF go places where the ability to get work done is the primary consideration. To me, that's the only consideration apart from being open and spreading the travel pain among our

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/9/2010 12:00 PM, David Kessens wrote: I think all these models that are based on where we are from are really beside the point as where we are from really doesn't necessarily have any connection with where we like to go. David, Sometimes, someone posts a comment that highlights a key

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/9/2010 11:19 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: daycare shutdown periods, and the like. It would probably make it possible for more people to join the meeting. The current template is: March, July, November. September tends to be a messy month, IMO, so I'd suggest against it, preferring

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 8/11/2010 12:05 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: So, if we want to go to a January / May / September cycle starting in 2014, I think we need to put January and September strike as being especially challenging months. February and October seem to be much less so. d/ -- Dave Crocker

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