I did not know that I could request a fee waiver. I am not corporate backed in any way, and I have only rarely had enough spare cash to attend IETF in person (kind of infamously, Jim Gettys snuck me into my first one and I slept on the floor of his hotel), and since covid I retreated to the mailing lists only rather than attempt to participate in person. Certainly travel for me is pretty impossible nowadays. I know multiple other folks that might have been participating more had they known this. On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:20 AM Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=40open-xchange.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Il 01/03/2023 13:21 CET Jay Daley <exec-director@xxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > > > > Thanks. (Though it seems like there should be some mention of it on the registration page.) > > > > We currently stand at 154 fee waivers requested and 101 of those used from a current total of 303 remote registrations. From those figures, it doesn’t appear as if we have an issue with people finding out about fee waivers. > > I'd say that we have more of an issue (of fairness) with the ~150 people that are paying even if they could avoid it. So I would be in favour of making it very clear during the registration process that the remote participation fee is optional, to avoid that some people pay only because they were not aware that they can request a fee waiver without any particular restriction. > > In particular, I am wondering whether this is introducing a discrimination between insiders and newcomers. Are those who pay aware of the fact that they could rather ask for a fee waiver? Insiders possibly are, but newcomers? Was this ever surveyed? > > -- > Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange > vittorio.bertola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Office @ Via Treviso 12, 10144 Torino, Italy > -- A pithy note on VOQs vs SQM: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/juniper/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
