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Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-17 13:30:31
John Lazzaro wrote:

Instead of trying to fix the current model (meeting fees subsidize a
publishing arm), it might make sense to consider having the publishing
arm be self-funded.
This would be anathema to the IETF; it would impose a much higher barrier to implementers, and make it expensive for third parties to determine whether or not a given implementation is compliant. Both of these would have the effect of lowering the quality of implementations.

Of course, it might be the only way; but we should look *hard* for alternatives.

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