On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:15:05AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > It's not "geographic balance of places on the world map" that people > > are talking about here. It's "geographic balance of places where the > > people who write IETF documents live". > > Then, things can go on forever. We do not hold meetings in places > where there are not a lot of IETF members. As a result, people from > these countries do not come and do not participate. Then, the prophecy > becomes true. And so on. > > If we want to be serious about breaking the vicious circle, we should > do meetings in places where there is *currently* few members (I do not > suggest Namibia or Papua-New Guinea but, may be, Egypt, Argentina, > India, places like that?) I would have to disagree. How useful is it for someone who isn't participating with the IETF to show up at an IETF meeting for the first time with zero context? The best way to participate is *on* *the* *mailing* *lists*. If we have the meeting in the middle of Africa, do you honestly expect anyone who shows up out of curiosity is likely to start authoring IETF documents and participating with the IETF after that one meeting is over? I personally have trouble beliving this.... - Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf