> It would seem likely when the participation is heaviliy biased towards > equipment vendors and software tooling that the participants would be more > representative of where the concentration of the development sideo of that > work occurs. This is true, but this is also something where active participants can help. Many of those companies also have R&D groups in Latam but unfortunately they're not yet active in the IETF. This is probably for historical reasons but it's feasible to change. If you know in your companies, groups or individuals valuable enough to work in the IETF please reach them and help them (or let me know and I'll do it). > Comparative advantage isn't just the domain of agricultural > products, extractive industries, and low-cost manufacturing. That seems > likely to be part and parcel of the diversity discussion. Latam is not just agriculture and cows :-)