ICANN constituencies, mission and participants are way different than IETF and an important number of folks receive financial support to participate.
I believe the discussion is not really about if Buenos Aires is the right location or not but if by meeting in a particular region that will drive more engagement and participation from the people from that region.
-J
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Patrik Fältström <paf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ICANN 48 is to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17-21 November 2013, and I am looking forward to it!
Patrik
On 29 maj 2013, at 04:27, Arturo Servin <aservin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps not. Buenos Aires is also a big hub of technology in Latin
> America. In addition as it was mentioned it relatively close from Sao
> Paulo, Montevideo and Santiago. Also there are direct flights from other
> major cities in Peru and Colombia.
>> as
> 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.
>
>>> Melinda
> On 5/28/13 11:09 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
>> On 5/28/13 3:06 PM, l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> The centres for networking industry in Australia are Melbourne and Sydney, in that order.
>>> It's a bit like IETF 51 being held in Grimsby, not London or Cambridge.
>>
>> Okay. So, should we be extrapolating from this to what
>> we can expect from Brazilians if we meet in Buenos
>> Aires?
>>
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