Comment by Dagger2
15 hours ago
Wasn't it from academics in their ivory towers? That's kind of the opposite of flying out to exotic locales.
Of course, back here in the real world you can look at the RFCs yourself and see that they're credited to places like Ipsilon Networks, Xerox and Sun Microsystems. Boring corporate network companies.
No literally, the IETF meets 3x a year in a different location each time and all the guys from with cargo shorts from the companies you named argue about IPv6 minutia all day and spend their per diem by night. It's actually a lot of fun.
Ah yes exotic locations like San Francisco, New York, London, Prague, Sydney, and Tokyo. Totally not major business hubs or anything.
Some of those locations probably did feel more exotic back in the early 90s than they do today... but they're also sensible places to hold international conferences. Where are you supposed to do them, if not there?