RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Glen Zorn
Bob Hinden [mailto://bob.hin...@gmail.com] writes: During my IAOC chair plenary talk at IETF78 (slides are in the proceedings) I asked a question about continuing the current meeting policy (3 in North America, 2 in Europe, 1 in Asia in two year period (3-2-1) ) or changing to a 1-1-1 policy

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Michael Richardson m...@sandelman.ca writes: Michael == Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net writes: Michael Fred said this much more eloquently than I could. Michael On the IETF78 attendees list there's been a lot of Michael discussion about where to meet - with the primary

RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Elwell, John
Agreed. On several evening, the 20 minute walk into the city centre or back provided a refreshing opportunity to talk to somebody whom otherwise I might hardly have spoken to. John -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mark

RE: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Glen Zorn
Michael Richardson [mailto://m...@sandelman.ca] writes: ... Michael == Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net writes: Michael Fred said this much more eloquently than I could. Michael On the IETF78 attendees list there's been a lot of Michael discussion about where to meet -

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Eliot Lear
Mark, On 8/9/10 2:41 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: I don't subscribe to the notion that shutting everyone into a confererence centre-cum-campus with all amenities onsite (and a corresponding dearth of other options, e.g. Minneapolis or Anaheim) is going to lead to higher productivity. I

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Yoav Nir
I'm more in favor the 3-2-1 model. The stats clearly show that the largest group of repeat offenders comes from the US. But either way, I also agree that Europe is the summer is not ideal. in the US there's much less of the vacances phenomenon. So how about: - March in Europe - July in N

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Michael Richardson m...@sandelman.ca writes: Michael == Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net writes: Michael Fred said this much more eloquently than I could. Michael On the IETF78 attendees list there's been a lot of Michael

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Eliot; On Aug 9, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Mark, On 8/9/10 2:41 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: I don't subscribe to the notion that shutting everyone into a confererence centre-cum-campus with all amenities onsite (and a corresponding dearth of other options, e.g. Minneapolis

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Marshall, Dear Eliot; Was this in the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, http://www.hicc.com/ ? Yes. Some years ago I looked at this center for the IAOC - a wonderful convention center, but at the time there were not nearly enough hotels nearby for an IETF meeting. Has this

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 8/8/10 11:48 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Yeah, I'm all for meeting in Europe once a year, but does it have to be in the peak of Summer? Seriously. As long as I'm in a hotel conference centre all day, I might as well be north of the Artic Circle in November. +1. Peak of summer happens to

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 9, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Hi Marshall, Dear Eliot; Was this in the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, http://www.hicc.com/ ? Yes. Some years ago I looked at this center for the IAOC - a wonderful convention center, but at the time there were not

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 02:14:56PM -0400, Michael StJohns wrote: In Maastricht you had that big central room with uncomfortable chairs and pretty much no reason to be there if you weren't using the internet or weren't either going to or coming from a WG session. I saw few random gatherings

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 8, 2010, at 11:48 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: +1. Peak of summer happens to be peak of vacation time for many europeans, and making room for an IETF conference during vacation periods can be difficult even if it is in the same continent. Peak of summer is when Americans with

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 07:27:23AM +0300, Yoav Nir wrote: Asia is big. Some parts of Asia (the middle east and the eastern parts of Russia) are closer to Europe than to China, Japan or Korea, at least as far as traveling goes. North America is big, too. Travelling to Anaheim was not a great

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Ray Bellis
On 9 Aug 2010, at 16:12, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Since we're providing anecdotal data, I'll mention that for me the big central room in Maastrict turned out to provide far greater cross-fertilization than I got in Anaheim. +1 I actually thought the Anaheim venue was really poor for this, and

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread David Morris
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 8/8/10 11:48 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: it also means conference facilities have availability, just a small detail of course. notwitstadning the fact that if you've got 3 evening spaced meetings per year one of them is going to fall in that period.

Re: Why not use on-line tool to track each working group's attendees?

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Rex
Joel Jaeggli wrote: Depending on the popularity of your working group and the extent to which the meeting itself is timeshifted from the vantage point of the bulk of the remote participants, as much as 10% of of the partficipants might be remote, generally less, almost never more. There is

Re: Why not use on-line tool to track each working group's attendees?

2010-08-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 8/9/10 9:51 AM, Martin Rex wrote: Unfortunately, for IETF78, I was blocked from the audiostream, because it was served through a port _other_ than 80/443, so it was unaccessible through our company firewall. I would appreciate if the audio streams would be served through port 80 again on

Re: Why not use on-line tool to track each working group's attendees?

2010-08-09 Thread David Conrad
On Aug 9, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Martin Rex wrote: Joel Jaeggli wrote: as much as 10% of of the partficipants might be remote, generally less, almost never more. There is a difference in the effectiveness of remote vs. on-premise participation. I don't think anyone disputes this (or even

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread David Kessens
Jari, On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:31:02AM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote: I think we should not over-analyze the selection process too much. I support 1-1-1 because its a simple model, it feels right, and because I believe general IETF participation is headed towards the 1-1-1 model even if we are

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Richardson
Yoav == Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com writes: Yoav I'm more in favor the 3-2-1 model. The stats clearly show that the largest group of repeat offenders comes from the US. Yoav But either way, I also agree that Europe is the summer is not ideal. in the US there's much less of the

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Fred Baker f...@cisco.com writes: On Aug 8, 2010, at 11:48 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: +1. Peak of summer happens to be peak of vacation time for many europeans, and making room for an IETF conference during vacation periods can be difficult even if it is in the same continent. Peak of

Last Call: draft-ietf-mif-problem-statement (Multiple Interfaces Problem Statement) to Informational RFC

2010-08-09 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Multiple Interfaces WG (mif) to consider the following document: - 'Multiple Interfaces Problem Statement ' draft-ietf-mif-problem-statement-05.txt as an Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final

Last Call: draft-ietf-mipshop-transient-bce-pmipv6 (Transient Binding for Proxy Mobile IPv6) to Experimental RFC

2010-08-09 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Mobility for IP: Performance, Signaling and Handoff Optimization WG (mipshop) to consider the following document: - 'Transient Binding for Proxy Mobile IPv6 ' draft-ietf-mipshop-transient-bce-pmipv6-06.txt as an Experimental RFC The IESG plans to

Last Call: draft-das-mipshop-andsf-dhcp-options (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Options for Access Network Discovery and Selection Function(ANDSF) Discovery) to Proposed Stand

2010-08-09 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Options for Access Network Discovery and Selection Function(ANDSF) Discovery ' draft-das-mipshop-andsf-dhcp-options-04.txt as a

Last Call: draft-ietf-fecframe-framework (Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework) to Proposed Standard

2010-08-09 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the FEC Framework WG (fecframe) to consider the following document: - 'Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework ' draft-ietf-fecframe-framework-09.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final

Protocol Action: 'Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extension for IPv6' to Proposed Standard

2010-08-09 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extension for IPv6 ' draft-ietf-behave-turn-ipv6-11.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance Working Group. The IESG contact persons