Regarding the concern that John Klensin raised about Internet organizations
that have too much money, I
cannot imagine this endowmwnr being that successful. However, if it were, I
would argue for reduced
meeting fees to encourage the broadest possible participation in face-to-face
meetings.
The IETF gets about 1/3 of its income from meeting fees. If, as seems
likely, we have more people coming electronically and fewer in person,
we're going to need to replace the revenue since to a first
approximation if we meet in person at all the costs are independent of
the number of people that show up. So either there's a death spiral
of in-person meeting fees, we try to charge people who attend
remotely, or we find the money somewhere else. I see this as the
obvious candidate for somewhere else.
R's,
John
PS: In case it's not obvious, this is my opinion, not that of any four
letter entities I might be on. But I did give money very soon after
Russ did.