Melinda, My point is beyond about venues. But answering your question in how moving venues could help. Diversity. Going to other places would help bring people from other backgrounds, different ideas, new ways of thinking, break paradigms, etc. People that in other way would find difficult to participate in the IETF or probably wouldn't even know that a such thing as the IETF exists. Also, for it would be good for the ietf community know, see and live other realities, different needs, and perhaps more constrained that the normal that we used to. Regards, as On 15/11/2012 00:58, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 11/14/12 5:55 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: >> My opinion is that being more open and international make us a better >> standarization body and today the IETF is not doing enough. > > We're a bunch of nerds, and I think that it would help if you > could be more specific about the problem you're perceiving, what > you mean by "better," and how moving the meetings would help. > I'm finding your problem description extremely vague. > > Melinda >