At one point in time, meeting fees possibly was the only way to cover the costs of IETF and USD 600 was justified. Even more was justified even though at the risk of being exclusionary. Survival is important than optics.
But now, As on Dec-20, IETF LLC had 19M USD (19,301,645 $) in stock investments yielding 2M USD in Investment income. Any stock market invest has a risk attached to it. Interestingly, the auditor points out that IETF bank deposits of 477K USD is beyond the insurable limit and thus has a risk.
Possibly an opportunity to correct the exclusionary trend.
-- Anupam
I used a US inflation calculator. in 2007 IETF registration cost $600. 2022 would be $830 if it simply kept pace with the CPI adjustment to the dollar. So the "$700 is reasonable" has a basis in 15 years practie. When did we become so exclusionary? at least 15 years ago. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/JUByvYCkSb2WDSt9h4lDkaoe9gc/-G On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 1:17 PM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/9/22 23:07, John Levine wrote:
Could you give us a specific dollar limit for a reasonable price?
This is going to vary a lot from one person to another, but offhand I'd
say that $1000/meeting for hotel and entry fee combined (not including
travel) is a good goal for meetings in North America.
The early bird fee is $700. $300 for a week's hotel?
Why is $700 reasonable either? How have we let IETF become so exclusionary? Is that really consistent with IETF's mission?
Even if we tried to go the cheap route and find a college campus
that would host us for free, when I look for places near our
local campus they're a lot more than $75/night.
I don't know where you're from. But I know many places where decent, safe, clean rooms can be had for around $75/night. Granted, they're less likely to be in large cities, but sometimes they're within reasonable commuting distance of city centers.
Keith
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