Having lived in New Zealand, Europe and (this week) in Chicago, I have
to say that the US is a pretty good location for the majority of IETF
meetings, for many practical reasons. I've never been offended by
having to cross the ocean; with air fares as illogical as they are, it
isn't even a cost issue. One meeting a year outside the US seems
fine to me.
Brian
"Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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
