On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Stephen Casner wrote:
After the last IETF meeting that was held in San Jose, a decree was
issued that no future meetings be held in Silicon Valley because of
unmanageably large attendance.
Harald's slides say that part of the problem we now face is reduced
revenue due to reduced attendance.
The answer seems obvious to me.
[Um, yes, I do live in Silicon Valley.]
On a more serious note, IETF used to function with the same attendance
numbers as now. Are the costs now out of line with what they were
then?
Good idea! Let's raise the registration fee by 500$ for US based IETF
attenders as they have the capability to pay more due to lower travel
costs :-).
The closer the more it should cost!
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Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
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