In some parts of the world there are good engineers that get $100 for a
week as salary.
Charging remote participation will raise the bar even more for people
that cannot travel and their only way to participate is in mailing lists
and remotely.
Providing good remote tools it expensive in capex and opex as stated
before, but charging remote participants it is not the way forward,
unless that payment were optional (I personally I would do it, but I
know people -students, researchers in public universities, badly paid
engineers whose employer is not convinced that the ietf is a good way to
expend money, etc.- )
Regards,
as
On 8/16/13 11:56 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 08/16/2013 09:38 AM, Janet P Gunn wrote:
...I want it from
people who can't get approval for even a $100 expense, from people
who are between jobs, people from academia, and even from just plain
ordinary users rather than just vendors or big corps.
I agree.
The realities of internal politics/funding being what they are, it is
sometimes going to be just as hard to get $100 "remote" fee approved
as it as to get the whole f2f trip approved.
As someone who just spent $3.5K out of pocket to show up in Berlin, I
have a hard time being sympathetic to someone who won't participate
because he has to spend $100 out of pocket.
Keith