On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Phil Hallam-Baker just suggested in the plenary that we could
easily raise funds by going round looking for sponsorship
from industry, $10k and $10k there.
This ignores that this is *exactly* where ISOC's funds come
from, and those funds are largely used to support the IETF
(specifically the RFC Editor, plus a few smaller expenses that
would otherwise fall on the Secretariat budget).
Also, why should any company pay another $10k when they already give
employees to work on IETF standards during office hours?
Henk
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