Re: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?

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On 2007-Jul-30, at 15:38, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

The meeting fee is almost the single
largest monetary expense for me, and it keeps going up.

As an individual non-attendee, I couldn't agree more. Even though the December meeting is (literally) on my doorstep, there is no way I can justify $750 just to attend a pair of WG meetings.

The IETF claims we all participate as individuals, but the entry fee pretty much wipes out the possibility of individuals attending. As the barrier to admission is raised we're simply giving the process over to the (large) corporate sector.


I was talking to a couple of people this week about what I consider to be a related issue: the fact that for the two or three wg meetings I'm interested in, there's little point in me being at the meeting for a whole week.

What about holding two or three meetings smaller meetings a year for each area, and then just one big meeting for the full IETF? That would bring down the cost of the individual area meetings and therefore the admission fee, make them smaller and therefore capable of fitting into a wider range of hotels, and would likely result in fewer nights of hotel stay for a lot of people.

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