Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

On 20/10/2005, at 11:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> It's very hard to get those data. We've tried looking
> at how many local first-time attendees from (say) Korea
> later became regular attendees but the data are hard to
> state in any meaningful way and the time constants are
> long (years). There is no objective way to identify 'primary
> contributors' other than by assuming the regular attendees are
> also contributors.
>
> We certainly know that going a long way from most places,
> as we did in Adelaide, impacts attendance significantly -
> but my recollection is that Adelaide was a very successful
> meeting in terms of WGs making progress.

As a data point, I'm now a regular attendee, and that is entirely  
because the Adelaide meeting was within the radius of where I could  
travel just to see if participating would be useful.  As it turned  
out, it was and has been useful, certainly to me and my company and  
I'd hope to the IETF.

Andrew

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