Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-mtgvenue-meeting-policy-04.txt> (High level guidance for the meeting policy of the IETF) to Best Current Practice

[Lou Berger <[e-mail]>]

On 4/19/2018 8:36 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> ...
>
> First, if you look at historical demographics, over the past 12 IETFs,
> we have 23% Asia, 26% Europe, and 42% NA). Put another way, the last
> time we had > 1/3 Asian attendance was IETF 94 in Yokohama, and the
> last time we had less than 1/3 NA attendance was IETF 79 in Beijing.
> So, a policy that was designed to match per-continent attendance would
> be more like 2-1-1-*.

FWIW looking at the public data [1] for IETF 72-101 the attendee 
distribution is as follows:

Meetings in Asia -- 6686 Total attendees over 6 meetings:
Attendees from
    36%  North America
    21%  Europe
    41%  Asia
    2%    Other

Meetings in North America -- 13878 Total attendees over 12 meetings:
Attendees from
    57%  North America
    22%  Europe
    19%  Asia
    2%    Other

Meetings in Europe -- 14236 Total attendees over 11 meetings:
Attendees from
    39%  North America
    39%  Europe
    20%  Asia
    2%    Other

For All Meetings -- 35843 Total attendees over 29 meetings: (basically 
the same as ekr's numbers)
Attendees from
    45%  North America
    29%  Europe
    23%  Asia
    2%    Other

Lou

[1] starting at https://datatracker.ietf.org/stats/meeting/ (in the 
above, asia includes numbers reported under "oceana")