> On Wednesday at the IESG plenary, I'm doing a presentation about IETF > financials. > ... harald - many thanks for making this material available. would it be possible for you to provide just a slight amount of additional material in your presentation, specifically, could we get a breakdown of the following meeting costs: - food - connectivity/terminal room/etc. - other major items it's hard to figure out what to optimize unless we understand the relative sizes of these things. for example, my gut reaction is to say "just cancel the food" on the theory that people can pay for this themselves, with a very small efficiency hit. in contrast, having everyone arrange their own connectivity would be amusing, but highly inefficient. /mtr