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Re: IETF registration fee increase from 2015

2014-10-03 18:09:25
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I have to whack this mole again:

We *want* people to stay the whole week and participate in meetings
outside their own speciality, so as to detect overlaps, oversights and
synergies. We *don't* want people to keep their heads down and focus
only on one topic. That way lie silos and duplications of effort.

Just to take your example, if Monday is mail and Wednesday is web,
when is Internationalization and when is Security? (And to be
really silly, when is Webmail?)

It doesn't compute.

+1

Yes, one day for topic X is convenient for those working only on topic
X.  Culturally, however, that would be a very damaging plan.