--- Bill Strahm <bill@strahm.net> wrote: > > The other thing that will be interesting is how do the IETF > meeting expenses scale with participation... Do we spend > 300,000K regardless of how many show up, or as the number of > attendies goes up we spend more money and if so how much more This is a concern for me - if there's a high fixed cost, and we've become dependent on the people sitting in the meetings as observers (hopefully, not just reading e-mail and playing solitaire) to cover that cost, that's bad, and it's worse if we've become dependent on them and then their companies stop sending them to IETF because of economic conditions. Any thoughts on whether this is actually the case or not? Spencer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com