Hi Fred, on 2006-07-14 22:45 Fred Baker said the following: ... > Assumption: the "we" in question is folks who post internet drafts. > Attendance at an IETF meeting or being on the mailing list doesn't > qualify for consideration here. > > Criticism: there are SO many ways to approach that one. This is the > assumption I made for this analysis. So there. ... More data on this: http://www.arkko.com/tools/authorstats.html and a subsidiary page listing authors of active drafts by region (Note that since drafts can have multiple authors, the sum of the following percentages are more than 100%), http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/d-contdistr.html: # 1523 drafts (73.08%) have authors from North America. # 1116 drafts (53.55%) have authors from Europe. # 417 drafts (20.01%) have authors from Asia. # 33 drafts (1.58%) have authors from Australia. # 9 drafts (0.43%) have authors from South America. # 3 drafts (0.14%) have authors from Africa. # 1 drafts (0.05%) have authors from OTHER. and by country: http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/d-countrydistr.html: ... # 1395 drafts (66.94%) have authors from Usa. # 218 drafts (10.46%) have authors from Germany. # 196 drafts (9.40%) have authors from United kingdom. # 170 drafts (8.16%) have authors from Finland. # 163 drafts (7.82%) have authors from France. # 151 drafts (7.25%) have authors from Japan. # 128 drafts (6.14%) have authors from Canada. # 83 drafts (3.98%) have authors from Sweden. # 81 drafts (3.89%) have authors from China. # 70 drafts (3.36%) have authors from South korea. # 61 drafts (2.93%) have authors from Belgium. # 53 drafts (2.54%) have authors from Israel. # 41 drafts (1.97%) have authors from Spain. # 41 drafts (1.97%) have authors from India. # 38 drafts (1.82%) have authors from Italy. # 36 drafts (1.73%) have authors from Switzerland. # 29 drafts (1.39%) have authors from Australia. # 21 drafts (1.01%) have authors from The netherlands. # 19 drafts (0.91%) have authors from Norway. # 17 drafts (0.82%) have authors from Austria. # 11 drafts (0.53%) have authors from Ireland. # 10 drafts (0.48%) have authors from Hungary. ... _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf