Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!

Paul Coverdale <coverdale@sympatico.ca> Mon, 01 August 2011 18:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!
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Don't know why everybody's complaining about the difficulty in getting to
Quebec City. Samuel de Champlain managed it in 1608, and I bet there were
even fewer direct flights than there are now, and not so many highways
either.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: 81attendees-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:81attendees-bounces@ietf.org]
>On Behalf Of Joe Touch
>Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 12:41 PM
>To: John R. Levine
>Cc: <81attendees@ietf.org>
>Subject: Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!
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>On 8/1/2011 8:41 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
>>>> Quebec is within driving distance of about 1/4 of the population in
>>>> North
>>>> America. Vancouver isn't.
>
>NA = 530M
>
>Canada - Quebec province = 26M
>Eastern US states within dist = (all in millions)
>	CT = 3.5
>	ME = 1.3
>	MA = 6.4
>	NH = 1.3
>	NY = 19
>	RI = 1
>	VT = 0.6
>
>	Some major cities out of dist:
>		NYC (8hrs) = 8
>		Boston (6 hrs) = 4
>
>	i.e., 21.1M possibly within dist
>
>That's a total of 47.1M out of 530M
>
>Not even 10%, and that includes a LOT of places nobody would ever drive
>from.
>
>Agreed that Vancouver is even less useful for driving (under 7M), but
>how many attendees drove (not just from nearby airports)?
>
>Joe
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