On 08/12/2010 11:50 EDT, Ross Callon wrote: > I can think of several reasons to move meetings around: > > Reasons that seem obvious to me: > > - To spread the pain and cost of participation among the many active > participants who contribute in a major way to our work (but who come > from multiple different continents). > > - To increase the potential number of sponsors, since potential > sponsors will frequently want to sponsor a meeting which is in a part > of the world where they have a major corporate interest (such as a > headquarters).
Exactly > Reasons that are probably also good, but which we might debate: > > - For regular attendees, to avoid the boredom of always going to the > same place and/or instill a bit of interest I think it's more to avoid the boredom of the meeting planners. :-) > - To encourage locals to drop by and see what we are doing at least > once, for a wide variety of localities. I wouldn't allow this reason. Let the ISOC do that. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
