If the IETF is trying to promote the Internet (as ICANN does), then
holding meetings where participants aren't generally from is a step
in spreading the Internet.
If the IETF is meant to be a bare-bones, get engineering work done,
it ought to be in the most cost effective location. For what ever
formulation of cost effective.
If the IETF is to be both, we have to compromise.
"Cost effective" is relative. I was asked what that meant to me: it
means least transit time from my couch to the hotel registration
desk. I know that's not generalizable - as no one else travels from
my couch to the IETF.
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Edward Lewis +1-571-434-5468
NeuStar
Soccer/Futbol. IPv6. Both have lots of 1's and 0's and have a hard time
catching on in North America.
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