Il 22/09/2024 04:51 CEST George Michaelson <ggm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:Flight cost for most of Asia to Beijing is probably 1/2 to 1/3 of Australia. Plus, masses of Chinese will come.I would expect Beijing to have less core 5+ ietf attendees and more newcomers and to probably break even.No disagreement with much of what you say but I think assuming it will be like Brisbane is a mistake.
In the end, we all know what the conditions in China are, and that most regulars from North America and many from Europe wouldn't attend in person, but there would be a lot of Chinese newcomers and this meeting would support the second biggest IETF community by country. Whether we want to have such a meeting is a "political" decision (you can remove the quotes if you like) to be taken by weighing the pros and cons.
Among the pros, I see the fact that this meeting would counter the claims by non-Western-bloc governments that the Internet is currently controlled by the West and biased in its favour, and that its governance, and maybe its architecture, have to change to accommodate the rest of the world, at least if the claim that "there is a single global Internet" should stand. I think this could be worth sacrificing some participation. But again, I am an engineer that moved to the dark side and started doing policy a long time ago, so YMMV.
-- vb.
