IETF meetings are held because they are beneficial to accomplishing
the work of the IETF, not to promoate some sort of internationalism.
Thus far they have been geographically distributed roughly as the
recent IETF meeting attendees locations has been geographically
distributed. (Availability of hosts and facilities is obviously also
a factor.) As long as about 2/3 of the IETF attendees are from North
America, 2/3 of the meetings should be in North America.
Donald
PS: I don't think that being accessible via a direct flight should be
a controlling factor. I usually don't take a direct flight to or from
the IETF meeting although I live in the USA and I don't see this as a
problem.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:41:14 +0100
>All,
>
>OK, so when are we going to move from having 2 meetings per year in the USA
>?
>
>How about 1 per year in North / South America, 1 per year in Asia /
>Australasia and 1 per year in Europe / Africa ?
>
>As for holding meetings near international air hubs -
>1. Oslo ?
>2. Have you tried getting a direct flight to Minneapolis from outside the
>USA ? or San Diego ? It's not easy.
>
>Regards,
>
>Graham
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:31 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Deja Vu
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Day) wrote on 20.03.01 in
>> <v04220801b6dd4a484c1a@[208.192.102.20]>:
>>
>> > >sorry, but this is a US centric comment. IETF is international, so
>> > >centrally located is an interesting question: center of the earth
>> > >(probably enough hot...;-))).
>> >
>> > I'm not so sure. From what I hear from the EU and Pacific Rim
>> > countries, the Internet is a US plot intended at further imposing US
>> > imperialism on the rest of the world. How can that many people be
>> > wrong? I was just going with the majority opinion.
>>
>> Looking at ICANN voting turnout, maybe it's a plot by the EU to take over
>>
>> the US?
>>
>> MfG Kai
