On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Stephen Casner wrote: > After the last IETF meeting that was held in San Jose, a decree was > issued that no future meetings be held in Silicon Valley because of > unmanageably large attendance. > > Harald's slides say that part of the problem we now face is reduced > revenue due to reduced attendance. > > The answer seems obvious to me. > > [Um, yes, I do live in Silicon Valley.] > > On a more serious note, IETF used to function with the same attendance > numbers as now. Are the costs now out of line with what they were > then? Good idea! Let's raise the registration fee by 500$ for US based IETF attenders as they have the capability to pay more due to lower travel costs :-). The closer the more it should cost! -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings