Re: [Mtgvenue] New Version Notification for draft-daley-gendispatch-venue-requirements-02.txt

[Benson Muite <[e-mail]>]

On 02/03/2024 22.49, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> Benson,
> On 02-Mar-24 18:58, Benson Muite wrote:
> ...
>>   The aim of using time zones to split the globe is to have a more
>> precise and equitable criteria for distribution of meetings than North
>> America, Europe and Asia.
> 
> 
> I've read that sentence a number of times, and I still don't
> understand its logic.
> 
> Why does precision help us? We know that however many criteria
> we have, no site will never meet all criteria precisely, so the
> precision of any individual criterion really doesn't matter.
> 
> How is a criterion based on time zones equitable? It isn't
> effective as far as travel times go. I'm only one time zone away
> from the Kamchatka Peninsula, but I imagine it would take me at
> least two days to get there. Similarly, Buenos Aires is due
> south of Nuuk, but I'm not sure there is a convenient flight.
> 
> More seriously, time zones have no particular relationship to
> regions where we have concentrations of active or potential
> participants. From the point of view of effective meetings
> that are reasonably convenient for participants, economic
> and geographical groupings are much more important.
> 
The present criteria of Asia, Europe and North America makes meetings
outside of these exploratory, yet there are regions within Asia, Europe
and North America that should be considered exploratory. Reykjavik and
Dakar were given as examples of places that should be exploratory, but
under the current criteria, Dakar would be considered exploratory and
Reykjavik not exploratory.  By using time zones, the rotation policy can
be separated from the exploratory policy.

Economic groupings are also important.  Adding diversity in meeting
locations by economic group (or a related proxy such as bytes of data
used per day per capita) maybe helpful.
> Time zones *are* relevant for remote participation, but
> that's a problem we face anyway, even if we meet in Antarctica.
> 
>     Brian