[AfrICANN-discuss] IETF89 starts tomorrow March 2nd in London with ICANN as a host: Some interesting reading and remote participation.

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:18 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:

> Hi Seun,
>
> At 04:54 02-03-2014, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>
>
>   held in Kenya and south-africa with the next that will happen in Africa
>> (hopefully in my country) has no doubt proven that regional events are
>> helpful.
>> I am not saying all this because I am trying to look for flimsy excuses
>> for Africa. However I just like us to recognise the unique challenge that
>> we find ourselves. While I know some people only attend conferences for
>> travel experience (which does not only happen to Africans). It does not
>> also seem accurate to term other non ietf events as talkshops.
>>
>
> The IETF is different from ICANN.


Definitely even by the acronyms they are different ;) however they are all
within the I* right


>  There are more people from Africa involved in ICANN in comparison to
> those involved in the IETF.


You are correct assuming by "involved" you mean in terms of skills since
ICANN has a broader scope than IETF which is rather more technical

 I thought about what it would it take to have a meeting in Africa.  The
> probability of success is extremely low.
>

Sure if you see my initial mail, you will see that i also raise the doubts,
but hey "Rome was not built in a day" there was a time when most AfNOG
resource people were "imported" but now afnog can boost of as much resource
people (through the help of the initial resource people ofcourse). Although
looking at it from the cost perspective, i agree that many people who
normally attend IETF may not be able to come to Africa, and perhaps that
could result to "low" success. So maybe this can be a gradual thing before
the main IETF event. Perhaps ISOC can perhaps take advantage of events like
ISOC day, to not just talk IETF in theory but pick 2 or 3 currently active
drafts(which could be interesting to our current regional needs) to discuss
at the event.


>
> I did not mention "talkshops" or "attending conferences for travel
> experience" in my message.


As you may notice that i wrote to yourself and Dr Lisse ;)


>  Some people view "participation" in terms of what would be the
> contribution to the discussions.


Yes actually i also appreciate that.  Its just the means to participating
that i query


>  That's difficult to do without an understanding of the discussions.
>
> Exactly, and that's one of the major advantage that f2f meetings brings(in
a faster way than remote).

>
>  Now ISOC(ietf convenor) which has a global reach should continue to make
>> IETF as such so as to allow Africans develop more interest and see RFCs
>> development as part of their responsibility as internet users.
>>
>
> I don't think that ISOC is the IETF convenor.
>

Okay apologies for using that word as i am sure it may have been
mis-interpreted perhaps using the phrase "chartered by ISOC" is better :)

Cheers!

>
> Regards.
> -sm
>



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