On 23/7/19 20:17, Eric Gray wrote: > I also tend to agree, sadly. But with a qualification: valuable > people are not typically locked in to working for employers that > cannot afford to pay them to do this sort of work, if they want to do > it and have value to add. I have no idea what's the rationale for this statement. I can tell you that it is extremely difficult (if at all possible) to have your employer support your IETF work in regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean. Even for other regions, it would seem (http://www.arkko.com/tools/recrfcstats/companydistr.html) the vast majority of recent RFCs have been authored by folks from a dozen different companies or so. Not a lot of diversity in terms of affiliations/employers. When looking at countries, it is even more so: http://www.arkko.com/tools/recrfcstats/d-countrydistr.html Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492
