Hi, Harald, It's good to have this presentation in advance of the meeting. A couple of questions follow: - Without asking for details - was Yokohama unusually expensive for reasons that are likely to recur? I'm curious whether this was just because the meeting was in Japan, for instance, or whether we usually expect higher costs outside of North America... - I'm not the brightest candle in the menorah, but - I would have guessed that we would see the number of attendees decreasing, due to (1) general industry business conditions, (2) the telecom nuclear winter, strongly affecting SubIP attendance, and (3) our reluctance to take on new APPS work, so it goes elsewhere. Your presentation projected a slight increase - does a decrease make things better, or worse? - Does going to two, or four, meetings per year help or hurt? - Of course we can raise meeting fees, but we're decrying the influx of professional standards weenies now. Is the expectation that people really just come to IETF when they want to standardize something, and then go away? And I'm sure these won't be the last questions that people ask... Spencer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com