Scott, On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Scott Brim wrote: > I also believe that the goal of moving the meeting around is to minimize > the cost of getting our work done, not to minimize the cost for walk-in > attendees. I agree. > However, to measure this, I suggest we count "contributions" > as we do for IPR purposes: > > c. "IETF Contribution": any submission to the IETF intended by the > Contributor for publication as all or part of an Internet-Draft or > RFC (except for RFC Editor Contributions described below) and any > statement made within the context of an IETF activity. Such > statements include oral statements in IETF sessions, as well as > written and electronic communications made at any time or place, > which are addressed to: While it would be difficult to measure this quantitatively, I would assume everyone attending an IETF meeting has said something at the meeting (in a session, or in the hall, etc.) that could be construed as a contribution, so I would think this brings us back to the raw attendance data. Bob _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf