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

[Dae Young KIM <[e-mail]>]

Who said 'ethno'?

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Adam Roach <[e-mail]> wrote:

>  On 8/8/11 12:53 PM, Dae Young KIM wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Jakob Heitz <[e-mail]>wrote:
>
>> The IAOC doing a great job. Don't change a thing, guys.
>>
>> The IETF is a global organization. It is important to
>> have meetings in diverse parts of the world to make sure
>> that anyone from anywhere can attend at least some of the time.
>>
>
> +1.
>
> This thread reminds me of the struggles that a lot of
> non-North-American(NA) participants, especially those from the unprevileged
> corner of Far East Asia, had to go through for so many meetings until now,
> and that with considerably lower budgets than elsewhere.
>
> Without considerations for diversity, and with continuing NA-centric
> criteria, and especially in this era of emerging new market regions, I doubt
> whether IETF can continue to claim it's a global international community,
> not any more NA-centric one.
>
>
> Throwing "North America" into this mix does make for a convenient strawman
> that is very easy to rip apart. However, if you read the thread carefully,
> you would find scant evidence that anyone agitating for "major hubs"
> actually means "major North American hubs." (In fact, you would notice that
> the venue actually under discussion is... umm... in North America).
>
> Try not to paint potentially legitimate feedback about the ease of travel
> to non-hub cities as ethnocentric attacks on the selection of continents.
> They aren't even marginally related, and it's insulting to insinuate
> otherwise.
>
> /a
>



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