I wonder how you measure/count "IETF participants"... Do you measure participants based on subscriptions to IETF mailing-lists? -- If so, how do you assign a location to the plenty of gTLD addresses? (including those at gmail.com)
I'm guessing based on the mail I see on the lists I'm on and the drafts I look at. I really don't think there's a vast group of Latin Americans or south Asians or Africans lurking behind gmail addresses.
As I think I've said many times, I think it would be great if we got more activity from underrepresented parts of the world, but the way to do that is to get people active on mailing lists and writing drafts, not to have unaffordable ICANN-style road shows.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.