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Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 09:22:05

The "wifi phone booth in Japan [...] wildly popular with attendees," was 
actually at APRICOT in Kyoto, but I know it all blends together after a 
while :-) At $50, vs the retail price of around $350, it was a loss-leader
give-away. I think we'd be happy to get more "free stuff" like that :-)


Ole


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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Dave Crocker wrote:

Harald Alvestrand wrote:

One option I do NOT want to consider (and which the 770 stand in the 
lobby kind of dented a little) is to add a tradeshow to the IETF 
meeting. 


Thinking about this further, I am struck by the fact that the 770 booth and 
the 
wifi phone booth in Japan were wildly popular with attendees.  So the concern 
you raise is a very real and very serious slippery-slope, but portions of 
that 
slope seem to be entirely acceptable to the IETF attendees.

Here is a guess at the rule we should impose:

A sponsor donating a sufficiently large amount may have a small booth for the 
sale of a single product that is a) unannounced or has been announced within 
the 
last [6] months, and b) appropriate for purchase and use by individuals.

d/
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