On 14/11/10 22:19, Lou Berger wrote: > On 11/12/2010 08:21 PM, Xiangsong Cui wrote: >> As to IETF registration and badge, I would like to suggest (maybe this is crazy), IETF should design another type participant, I mean Guest Participant, they are free and more limited than one day pass. For example, the Guest Participant can only attend one session (half day or 2 hours), for the given WG seesion. And, the amount of Guest Participant should be strictly limited. > > Maybe I'm just old fashioned, at least from an IETF perspective, but why > not just let them "drop in", i.e. attend the meeting without a badge? +1 And separately, we should try make it cost less to attend. Ticket + meting-hotel + flight total seems to be getting more and more expensive (even though flights are mostly cheaper), leading to more discussions like this. I'm not saying its easy to make it cheaper, but I don't know that people have that as a goal. IMO they should. S. > I've always felt this served the community well and is not really > different from our mailing list subscription policy. (I hope no one > proposes to start charging for that, but if you take the current > trend/discussion a few steps farther, that's where we may end up!) > > Lou > > BTW There was one IETF, perhaps Columbus, where I attended just one day > and I still paid the full amount. Although, it cost a bit less, back > then. IMO contributors will "do the right thing", and we should make it > easy to be a lurker as they may turn into a direct or indirect contributor. > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf