-----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----- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf