Hi Jordi,
At 12:13 PM 01-06-2020, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
Exactly. As I mention in my previous email, this is not really about
"this" meeting, it is about next meetings (in person and online,
with and without Covid19), it is about how to cover *all* our expenses.
It is unfair that people that contributes more, pay traveling
expenses and attendance fees, and may have similar problems to cover
all that cost as people that is participating remotely, which only
will need to pay for a registration fee.
How we compensate all the people that have attended meetings for
tens of years? In my own case my first meeting was summer 2001, and
I never missed one, so I've contributed with about 34.000 USD (just
in attendance fees!). For an individual or an SME, this is not the
same as for a participant that works for a medium or big size
organization, that is covering all the expenses for him/her.
Revenue from IETF attendees is less than 50% of the IETF revenue. I
was a bit surprised by the numbers as I made some assumptions based
on past IETF discussions. I don't have an answer to your question.
So, this is a discussion about IETF budged in general. It is about
what the PIR/.org was
The above is the controversial topic which was avoided over the past
six months.
Getting back to the topic, it usually turns into big/small
organizations and individuals. One of these days someone may come
up with an acceptable solution. There were two (more) interesting
messages within the discussion, one from Ole and the other from you.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
