On more reason to make sure that we make to as many continents as possible, so we keep the balance among more people being able to participate from different regions, w/o always needing to travel for two days almost the same folks. Regards, Jordi > De: Russ White <riw@xxxxxxxxx> > Responder a: <riw@xxxxxxxxx> > Fecha: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:05:15 -0400 > Para: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > Asunto: Re: Meetings in other regions > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Another point to consider is "reachability." While some folks don't mind > flying two days in each direction to get to some location or another, I > generally consider a good balance between time and cost to be more > important than pure monetary considerations. > > For instance, I would consider Latin America, but I generally don't > attend Japan/Korea/etc, just due to time in flight constraints. Someone > in Europe might consider Sand Diego a similar issue (where Africa might > be easier to get to than Sand Diego). > > Anyway, just another consideration to think about. It's not always a > pure money issue. > > :-) > > Russ > > Pekka Savola wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >>> Just to give some extra *valuable* info about my comment in the plenary. >>> 1) Meetings cost money. Doing meetings in Latin America/Caribbean and >>> Africa, will save a lot of cost to IETF as an organization. >> .... >>> 5) There have been already some offers to sponsor meetings there (even >>> if I >>> believe the sponsorship should be changed from what we have now, but >>> this is >>> a different topic). >> >> No doubt some parts of such a meeting cost would be cheaper. Actually >> meetings don't "cost" IETF money though, as Ray's slides showed, meeting >> revenues are higher expenses. Perhaps the bottom line (facilities cost, >> food/beverages, sponsorship, hosting expenses, network connectivity, >> etc.) has not been significantly different from a more traditional and >> less risky location or logistics haven't worked out. >> >> Personally, I have no particular desire to meet in Africa or Latin >> America/Caribbean but if the IAOC feels that makes a significant >> difference financially I'd have no problem with it. They've been chosen >> to make that call so that we don't need to worry about it. >> > > - -- > riw@xxxxxxxxx CCIE <>< Grace Alone > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEtqd7ER27sUhU9OQRAkkVAJ4iUhzkMciPzBuBcW1lJE64zCK39wCgvRmu > UE2U3VzggFrG0WnJc0EwN2E= > =i1TL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ********************************************** The IPv6 Portal: http://www.ipv6tf.org Bye 6Bone. Hi, IPv6 ! http://www.ipv6day.org This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf