Subject: Some Comments for Tutorial slides presented in IETF 89 Date: Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:51:40AM +0100 Quoting Abdussalam Baryun (abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx): > AB5- Slide 5, shows f2f (i.e. face to face) attendance of participants > which increased between 1996 to 2002, in average above 2000. That is a 8 > year duration with many meetings per year (totally about 24 f2f event) with > numbers of about 2000 attendees and then decreased after 2002 becoming in > average above 1000 and less than 1500 attendees. IMHO, the community had > not continued to attend because of possible difficulties or high > probability of waste time, with slow production, also the diversity problem > that still IETF needs to fix. dot.com.bubble.burst That is quite enough as explanation. The 49th in San Diego still is the largest one in terms of participants. And it was quite crazy because of its sheer size. And, of course, the glögg. BTDTGTTS. I think it is a safe bet to couple participant numbers to the amount of big spender VC being thrown over the industry, and that in turn is related to the general state of economy in the world. Possibly out of scope for the IETF to fix. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 Tex SEX! The HOME of WHEELS! The dripping of COFFEE!! Take me to Minnesota but don't EMBARRASS me!!
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