Re: Query to the community -- An additional IETF Meeting event?

Those vendors who want to organize themselves into a beer & gear
should do so and then coordinate with the IETF early in the planning
process in order to have space they can pay for.  They can either pay
the IETF or pay the hotel for the incremental meeting cost.  There is
no need for the IETF to take responsibility for this, or to spend yet
more administration time on it.