Melinda, can you confine yourself to disagreeing with something I actually said? Thanks so much! Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ ________________________________________ From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melinda Shore [melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 29 May 2013 03:47 To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: IETF Meeting in South America On 5/28/13 6:27 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > Going to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Mexico City or Santiago will always > split audiences as these are the major tech hubs in the region (also add > Bogota, Lima, San Jose and other cities). So, I think it is not > comparable with Australia. I actually don't agree with Lloyd that the reason that the Australian meeting didn't lead to increased Australian participation was that it was because it was in Adelaide. I don't expect a South American meeting in any South American city to lead to an increase in Latin American participation, either. Melinda