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On 2007-Jul-30, at 15:38, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
The meeting fee is almost the single
largest monetary expense for me, and it keeps going up.
As an individual non-attendee, I couldn't agree more. Even though
the December meeting is (literally) on my doorstep, there is no way
I can justify $750 just to attend a pair of WG meetings.
The IETF claims we all participate as individuals, but the entry
fee pretty much wipes out the possibility of individuals
attending. As the barrier to admission is raised we're simply
giving the process over to the (large) corporate sector.
I was talking to a couple of people this week about what I consider
to be a related issue: the fact that for the two or three wg meetings
I'm interested in, there's little point in me being at the meeting
for a whole week.
What about holding two or three meetings smaller meetings a year for
each area, and then just one big meeting for the full IETF? That
would bring down the cost of the individual area meetings and
therefore the admission fee, make them smaller and therefore capable
of fitting into a wider range of hotels, and would likely result in
fewer nights of hotel stay for a lot of people.
Matt
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