On 07/11/2013 04:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Douglas,
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Those traveling thousands of miles already confront many uncertainties. Those that elect to participate remotely should be afforded greater certainty of being able to participate when problems occur at local venues or with transportation. Increasing participation without the expense of the brick and mortar and travel should offer long term benefits and increased fairness.
How much would you be willing to pay for remote participation
(assuming it was of high quality)?
Not much. Remote participation misses the whole point of IETF
meetings. Sure, it's useful to be able to listen on WG sessions and
make a comment or two. But the WG sessions generally aren't actually
worth very much, especially the way that they tend to be run these
days. The most important work gets done in the hallways and over food
and drink.
So IETF is in this very strange position of supporting itself by
charging a large amount of money for an activity that's mostly
peripheral to getting useful work done.
Keith