That it could the first of many, or the trigger to start participating by email or remotely. But that is my untested hypothesis. I will try to get some numbers (and time to run the experiment) and I'll come back (hopefully kinda soon). Cheers, as On 15/11/2012 01:43, Melinda Shore wrote: > 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 >