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[Brian E Carpenter]

My assumption is that this is a temporary dip due to the
economic situation. But of course it's possible that it's
permanent - only time will tell. In any case, even with
1500 people, we have a lot of observers in many sessions, so
the issue is not completely historical.

    Brian

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> Spencer,
> 
> the total attendance has been lower - down from 2810 in San Diego to around
> 1500-1600 at the last few US meetings.
> 
> My (vague) impression is that there are far fewer newbies.
> But I've asked the secretariat if they can come up with specifics.
> 
>                       Harald
> 
> --On mandag, januar 13, 2003 09:11:58 -0600 Spencer Dawkins
> <sdawkins at cynetanetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > Harald,
> >
> > Could you say anything about changes in IETF meeting attendee
> > demographics since (say) IETF 52?
> >
> > My impression is that SubIP attendance has been lower, and that
> > first-time attendance has been lower, but I don't know if either of these
> > are actually true, and have no idea if there are other trends that would
> > be interesting, as long as we're trying to understand what's going on.
> >
> > For instance, I've heard that we were running at a sustained
> > one-third-new-attendees rate for several years - so assume most of these
> > people don't recognise most other attendees in the halls, so fewer
> > hallway conversations ...