Subject: [Mtgvenue] adoption of draft-krishnan-ietf-meeting-policy-01, question on increasing meeting attendance as a policy item

From: Fred Baker <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:39:29 -0800

I do not believe that positioning IETF meetings in various locations has had the effect of increasing attendance from those regions. It will have an effect on the meeting held there, of course, but the question applies to subsequent meetings - does the new participant then engage in ongoing work, or start work? I would invite a statistical analysis, and would expect a negative result - if people have a business reason to be involved, they will be involved regardless of where meetings are held. That said, positioning IETF meetings in various locations does have the effect of distributing costs borne by people in the indicated regions to other participants; if the redistribution is fair, that is an argument for adding a region to the rotation policy.