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

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 04 August 2011 21:09 UTC

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On 8/4/11 3:04 PM, Sebastian Castro wrote:
> On 05/08/11 08:07, John Bradley wrote:
>> Having moved from Canada to Chile, I feel compelled to point out the
>> wonderful facilities and direct flights from Europe and North America
>> and Aukland.
> 
> I wouldn't mind shortening my trip in time and number of hops by holding
> an IETF meeting in SCL. WLG -> AKL -> SCL would be ~16 hours compared to
> the 36 hours from WLG to Maastricht (WLG -> AKL -> HKG -> LHR -> BRU ->
> Maastricht).
> 
> Jokes aside, one of the things I've observed with the venue diversity
> it's attracting local  attendants that later keep coming to the
> meetings. So it's serving a purpose of "democratising" the IETF process
> at some extent by bringing new people.

We could rotate between Iceland and Hawaii (each is between two major
continents), or add Mauritius for a third location. :)

/psa

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