Hi Jordi, On Friday 24 March 2006 06:10, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > Not really. If you look to the recent sponsors, the current one and > the next one, they are all European companies, hosting IETF in > North America. > > Actually it can be presented in the other way around, as they host > here, 50% of the attendees are getting indirectly subsidized by > those sponsors decision to host here because their travel expenses > are lower. So the cost for the participants from the rest of the > world is higher. I do not agree that the cost for "rest of the world" participants is necessarily higher when me meet in US. It is usually cheaper for me to travel from EU to US than to travel from EU to EU. For example I paid 350 euros and 460 euros to go from France to Washington DC and San Francisco, respectively. That's more or less the minimum I am used to pay for intra-EU trips. So it rather seems that the cost of intercontinental flights is low when there is a lot of different carriers (competition!) on the hub-to-hub intercontinental trunk of the trip. My two cents. -- julien _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf