Re: [ericas] IETF Meeting in South America

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Juliao,
At 13:58 24-05-2013, Juliao Braga wrote:
>I think there are a lot of people from LACNIC and from CGI.br / Nic.br
>in this list. The Chair of Brazilian ISOC Chapter is member of CGI.br.

I went through the mail archives for this mailing list.  I saw only 
one person from LACNIC.  I did not see anyone from CGI.br/Nic.br.

>In the next Brazilian Congress of SBC I will try to invite interested
>peoples for BoF about IETF.  And in some especific Symposium, too.

That is a positive initiative.

>IETF could develop a form to send via the mailing list of the SBC, as I
>said. I suppose this is the correct way. If the IETF need help I'm
>available.

As you have attended an IETF meeting you might have noticed that the 
IETF works in an informal way.  In my opinion there isn't a correct 
way.  Vinayak Hegde explained some of the problems that people who do 
not usually speak English encounter and that it is a barrier to 
participation( 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg79479.html 
).  That barrier will remain as long as the people from, for example, 
the Brazilian Computer Society do not show interest in participating 
in the IETF.  If there is interest an IETF Area Director or someone 
else will try to find a way to help the people from the Brazilian 
Computer Society.

We can discuss about whether it is for the IETF to contact the 
Brazilian Computer Society or you could convince some people from the 
Brazilian Computer Society to comment on this mailing list about the 
problems they face.  I think that having people discussing here would 
be the easier alternative.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy