On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:58:53PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
... missing the heart of the issue. Which in my opinion
is that the operation of the overhead functions that are the general
ietf infrastructure are funded out of the meeting fees which means the
amount made on the meeting has to exceed the actual costs by order of
50%. At the sane time, the organization is if you haven't noticed
shrinking and it's character is changing. It has more professional
standards folks and fewer of the students, academics and network
operators that made it interesting to me 10 years ago. Pushing higher
costs onto potential attendees isn't likely to attract more of them.
Joel may have hit the nail on the head. Students, Academics, and
Network Operators ahve all developed their own conferences that fit their
own constraints. The IETF has deliberately chosen this path, with more
paid staff, legal fees, and in general higher infrastructure costs - to
cater to professional standards folks / corporations. And these folks
can afford and expect to pay more for a well run conference that meets their
needs.
Adopting models that presume paid, outsourced support will only
increase costs more.
--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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