On 28-Jul-23 10:52, Dean Bogdanovic wrote:
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Based on my limited knowledge, many academics write grants proposals that they use to fund their research and participate in conferences.
Yes, *conferences*. The IETF is not a conference. For most academics, these days, a requirement for travel approval is an accepted peer-reviewed paper that will be published in a respectable set of proceedings (typically an IEEE or ACM sponsored conference, for our community). Even that isn't guaranteed, since you now also have to explain why you aren't participating on-line instead. And these days, a poster in the poster session probably won't suffice except for short travel distances.
The academics who attend the IETF have navigated a way through this thicket, but they are the exceptions.
Let’s be clear: IETF in 5* hotels around the World favours the few. Not
the many.
For the past 20 years (with few exceptions), the IETF was at 4 star hotels and IETF secretariat is doing best to get good pricing. If you don’t like the price, find a near by place to stay. I never stay at the IETF hotel. I choose my own accommodation according to my own preferences.
And for the hotel selection, it is the ones which have conference capabilities. And I don’t know any 3* hotels that have conference hosting capabilities.
That's right. The key is the conference centre. Even when the IETF manages to fit into an independent conference centre, there's often a tie-in with anchor hotels, and they aren't cheap ones. That's just the way the conference industry works.
I also know many people who’s IETF participation and work is self funded and are not part of big corporations And are major contributors.
And I think there's never been an IETF in recent memory where there weren't budget hotels nearby. If the local host can also arrange nearby student-hostel style rooms, that's a good idea, of course.
Regards
Brian Carpenter
