On 18-nov-03, at 19:48, Keith Moore wrote:
I already indicated before: 100-150 Euros more is not a big issue.
I strongly and emphatically disagree, and I strongly object to
attempts to
use of increased meeting feeds to discourage some parties from
participating
at IETF. Basically this kind of fee increase is completely and
absolutely
unacceptable.
Especially considering the fact that based on the budget for 2003 (see
http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/budget-2003.html ) the costs per
attendee are less than 300 dollars, even at the lower than projected
attendance.
Maybe this would be a good time to explain what the IETF needs a 9.33
person secretariat for, and why the secretariat must be entirely funded
by meeting fees.
As for the network: Vienna has shown that it's possible to do better.
At the same time, with 1000+ people in a room performance isn't going
to be great. Poor network performance during plenaries and other
crowded sessions isn't the end of the world as long as the network
functions well elsewhere.