In keeping with Eric Rosen's excellent thread .. The simple solution is to charge 500 .. UK POUNDS!! for Internet Access during the IETF meetings. This is clearly in keeping with standard hotel/airport practices around the world. This would clearly solve the budget problem as well as discourage people attending WG meetings from spending most of their time on YouTube instead of following the discussion. ########### On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Peter Sherbin wrote: >> The current business model does not bring in enough cash. How do >> we bring in more in a way that furthers ietf goals? > > E.g. other standards setting bodies have paid memberships and/or > sellable standards. > > IETF unique way could be to charge a fee for an address allocation > to RIRs. On their side RIRs would charge for assignments as they do > now and return a fair share back to IANA/IETF. A IP address use fee might help solve two problems _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf