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Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 27 November 2012 17:21 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]
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> 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)

I'm guessing based on the mail I see on the lists I'm on and the drafts I 
look at.  I really don't think there's a vast group of Latin Americans or 
south Asians or Africans lurking behind gmail addresses.

As I think I've said many times, I think it would be great if we got more 
activity from underrepresented parts of the world, but the way to do that 
is to get people active on mailing lists and writing drafts, not to have 
unaffordable ICANN-style road shows.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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