--On 12. november 2004 16:26 -0500 Aaron Falk <falk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
It appears (to me) that IRTF RGs are meeting before and after IETF meetings increasingly more often. Is there additional cost to this? Is that expense currently borne by IETF meeting registration fees? (Personally, I think it would be fine if it were. I think interaction between IETF and IRTF participants is a good thing and benefits the IETF.) If the IETF is not currently paying for these meetings, does the change you refer to above imply that it would in the future?
These meetings are a fine illustration that the relationship needs to be known to all parties.
Sometimes, the RGs get rooms for free. But when it incurs extra cost for the IETF, they have been instructed to do the same thing as any other group that wants to meet "next to the IETF": "None of our business. Ask the hotel."
My impression is that usually the RG can easily find someone to sponsor this if they are active enough to need physical meetings in large rooms.
If there is one support structure with responsibility for both, it makes much more sense to pay for the rooms out of the meeting budget (probably getting a better deal), and (perhaps more controversial) ask the RG participants to pay the meeting fee (pointing out that they are thereby invited to all the IETF meetings too!)
Harald
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