RE: [Recentattendees] Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF 100

"MH Michael Hammer (5304)" <MHammer@ag.com> Tue, 31 May 2016 13:40 UTC

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To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin
> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 7:32 PM
> To: Joel M. Halpern; Fernando Gont
> Cc: recentattendees@ietf.org; Ietf@Ietf. Org
> Subject: Re: [Recentattendees] Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF
> 100
> 
> 
> 
> --On Saturday, May 28, 2016 2:34 PM -0400 "Joel M. Halpern"
> <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
> 
> > Fernando,
> >      Your response assumes that it is proven that moving to
> > less-participating locations increases long term participation from
> > those locales.  There are also indications from other data that it is
> > not particularly effective.  Thus, while your view is a reasonable
> > hypothesis, it will take time and measurements to confirm it.
> 
> Let me take Joel's observation about the particular BA experiment a bit
> further.  If, independent of who showed up at that meeting, it isn't followed
> by a significant spike in long-term IETF participation and contributions from
> the region, I think people who say "go there in spite of the fact that there
> hasn't been a lot of participation from the region because participation will
> increase" are going to have a very hard time making that case... for either a
> return to Latin America or for any other region.
> 

I think it is unreasonable to set the bar at MUST have long term significant spike in participation from a region after a single meeting being held there. Without taking a position on whether meetings should be held in particular locations, if the goal is to garner participation from a wider geographic constituency then IETF needs to plan and invest to make that happen beyond simply holding a single meeting in the region.

> >      I do note that many of our regular participants found BA to be
> > simply too much (by whatever measures they use) and chose not to come.
> > That is an observed cost that also must be factored in.
> 
> That drop in attendance, and overall lower attendance, are significant for
> other reasons, but, at least to me, further raise  the bar for "going to this new
> place will help the IETF"
> arguments.
> 

That is a different but related discussion.

> >      Also note that we did chose to conduct the experiment.
> > So I think your comparison is quite a ways off the mark.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>     john
> 
>