On 11/14/12 6:39 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > 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. Right, I understand that (better than you might think - I live in Alaska). But. I'm trying to understand the value in having people attend one meeting. I've asked about that several times. Melinda