Jorge - This particular group of folks gathered and received updates on various activities going on... e.g. Jari and Russ spoke of perpass. It is a coordinating function; so we know about major initiatives going on and can support and/or avoid conflicts as appropriate. The only reason for the post-meeting statements (in my view) is simply because people were unaware that these periodic gatherings were going on, and indicated that we should be make such more visible. Note also that there quite a bit of focus on making sure the most recent statement simply said what happened, i.e. a gathering of folks received a series of updates from each other on a list of topics of potentially mutual interest. As a result, I now realize that W3C is having its 20th anniversary; that ICANN's various strategy panels have been meeting, and that the "Brazil meeting" is now know as “Netmundial” and has its own website <http://netmundial.br>. I don't really know what the other leaders (for lack of a better term) took away, but would hope that Jari, Russ, etc. found it useful context and background for their IETF efforts. I guess that one option would be for the "leaders" from the IETF community not to attend such gatherings, but that seems to be a rather extreme response to take due to lack of a better term than "leader" (and one hopes it is unnecessary so long as care is taken to make nothing more of the meetings than what they are - a gathering of folks hearing updates so we can better coordinate) FYI, /John
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