On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
Just to give some extra *valuable* info about my comment in the plenary. 1) Meetings cost money. Doing meetings in Latin America/Caribbean and Africa, will save a lot of cost to IETF as an organization.
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5) There have been already some offers to sponsor meetings there (even if I believe the sponsorship should be changed from what we have now, but this is a different topic).
No doubt some parts of such a meeting cost would be cheaper. Actually meetings don't "cost" IETF money though, as Ray's slides showed, meeting revenues are higher expenses. Perhaps the bottom line (facilities cost, food/beverages, sponsorship, hosting expenses, network connectivity, etc.) has not been significantly different from a more traditional and less risky location or logistics haven't worked out.
Personally, I have no particular desire to meet in Africa or Latin America/Caribbean but if the IAOC feels that makes a significant difference financially I'd have no problem with it. They've been chosen to make that call so that we don't need to worry about it.
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