Yoav, On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > Asia is big. Some parts of Asia (the middle east and the eastern parts of Russia) are closer to Europe than to China, Japan or Korea, at least as far as traveling goes. > > But I think that only adds up to about 15-20 attendees, so it's still in the noise. > > I also wonder if the data we have is about countries of citizenship, or where people actually work. A lot of people with Indian or Chinese passports work in Silicon valley and are actually more comfortable with a meeting in north America than in Asia. I doubled checked. The continent data is based on the address of the person registering , not their citizenship. Bob > > On Aug 8, 2010, at 3:04 AM, Michael StJohns wrote: > >> >> Hmm... folding Australia into Asia, Africa into Europe and S America into N America (for discussion purposes only) that's roughly >> >> 1/1/1.7 as a ratio. (Asia/Europe/NA). Or 4/4/7. >> >> It will be interesting to see what the other runs of the data show. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> At 07:49 PM 8/7/2010, Donald Eastlake wrote: >>> Assuming the very simple model that attendance consists of a fixed number of constant attendees from each continent plus a "continentally local" variable number that only show up when the IETF meets on their continent and using the very limited data provided, using a rough least squares fit I get the following: >>> >>> Constant Attendees >>> Africa 6 >>> Asia 236 >>> Europe 254 >>> N.America 409 >>> Australia 14 >>> S.America 8 >>> >>> Continentally Local Attendees >>> Asia 333 >>> Europe 173 >>> N.America 232 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Donald >>> ================== >>> Donald E. Eastlake 3rd >>> 155 Beaver Street >>> Milford, MA 01757 USA >>> d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> During my IAOC chair plenary talk at IETF78 (slides are in the proceedings) I asked a question about continuing the current meeting policy (3 in North America, 2 in Europe, 1 in Asia in two year period (3-2-1) ) or changing to a 1-1-1 policy based on current meeting attendance. The talk included a graph of attendance by continent for IETF72-IETF78. I was asked to provide this data to the community. >>> >>> It is attached. It includes the raw data and a new graph that shows attendance by percentage. It appears to me that a 1-1-1 meeting policy is justified by current overall IETF meeting attendance. >>> >>> Your comments are appreciated. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ietf mailing list >>> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ietf mailing list >>> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> >> <ATT00001..txt> > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf