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Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Tue, 27 November 2012 12:57 UTC

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On 11/16/2012 12:27 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> 	Shall we move on?
> 
> Sure.  Since we agree that there is no way to pay for the extra costs
> involved in meeting in places where there are insignificant numbers of
> IETF participants, it won't happen, and we're done.

I wonder how you measure/count "IETF participants"...

Do you measure participants based on subscriptions to IETF
mailing-lists? -- If so, how do you assign a location to the plenty of
gTLD addresses? (including those at gmail.com)

Do you measure participants based on subscriptions to mailing-lists
*and* whether they actually get to post to the mailing-lists?

Or do you count as "participants" those that write documents and/or send
feedback about documents?

etc..

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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