On 2007-11-28, at 20:08, ext Russ Housley wrote:
The IAOC plan for 2008 and 2009 is to have three meetings in North America, two meetings in Europe, and one meeting in Asia. This 3:2:1 ration will be repeated for 2010 and 2011. So far, we are on track to make this happen.
I appreciate that the IAOC is trying hard to make this happen, and I understand that we have particular site requirements (There doesn't seem to be a good venue in Finland, for example.) I'm merely observing that in the recent past, we haven't been quite as successful in keeping to that ratio as we'd all have liked.
As we discussed at the IETF 69 Plenary, we have had some difficulty arranging hosts. We are be willing to discuss changing venues in order to get hosts. This is the reason for "(Provisional)" on the web site. However, we would make changes in a way that preserves the 3:2:1 ratio. So, we are in discussion with several potential hosts that could lead to exactly this type of juggling. We have someone that wants to host the Summer 2009 meeting in Europe, and we have someone that wants to host the Fall 2009 in Asia. If all of this comes to pass, we will be looking for a host for the Spring 2009 meeting in North America in order to preserve the 3:2:1 ratio.
I might not be fully up-to-date on our sponsoring process, but as I understand it, a meeting sponsor pays for a fraction of the direct costs for a given meeting. Other organizations charge a sponsor a flat amount that is based on costs that are averaged over multiple meetings. Yes, that means that sponsors of meetings in cheaper locations subsidize meetings in more expensive ones, but it also makes it financially irrelevant to the sponsor which exact meeting they support.
By the way, is there another mailing list for us to move this discussion to? Does the IAOC have an open list?
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