On 9/21/2024 10:51 PM, George Michaelson wrote:
Flight cost for most of Asia to Beijing is probably 1/2 to 1/3 of
Australia. Plus, masses of Chinese will come.
Maybe not.
During the last meeting in Beijing, one of the local attendees gave his
badge to someone else. The hotel provided security guards refused the
new person entry. (And no, this wasn't someone giving their badge to
someone else in front of the guard.) Those pieces of information taken
together suggest that local attendees are probably vetted very carefully
and that will limit the pool.
But yes - I believe we'll see more PRC attendees at this meeting than at
any other meeting since Beijing. I would also guess that will be offset
a lot less US attendees. And I'm pretty sure flight costs have little to
do with those numbers.
I'm hopeful the IETF will recoup the costs to hold this.
Later, Mike
