On 30 aug 2010, at 21.57, Olaf Kolkman wrote: > If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by putting fairly large error bars on the costs but isn't the X-Y-Z distribution where X= approx Y= approx Z the closest optimum? (or finding one place that sucks equally for everybody) I agree with this finding. > Am I missing something? If you do, then I do as well. > [*] Independent consultants, somebody not financially backed up by big corporations. Also big corporations do have limited budget for IETF participation, so this would I claim be valid also for other participants. Although limited budget is a different thing than the non-negotiable situation of "do not have the money at all". Patrik _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf