On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Russ Housley wrote: > Thursday is gone, we have given the host the Monday lunch slot. So, > there are no more slots in Paris. But is also shows that we could > probably get sponsorship dollars for the Monday lunch slot on an ongoing > basis. Another slot to consider ... breakfast before the daily meetings ... might be offered to a vendor for the right fee. As a dietician, my wife attends professional conferences. Recently she spent a week in Las Vegas during which she attended a catered breakfast training session put on by one of the nutritional suppliment vendors. Breakfast was nice and free and she continuing education credits and learned about that companies latest products for medical nutrition therepy. As I recall the session started at an obnoxious time like 6am. I can imagine quite a few topics that a large percentage of IETF attendies would find useful.