Re: Charging remote participants

[Janet P Gunn <jgunn6@xxxxxxx>]

I expect _I_ would pay $100 out of my own pocket, if it came to that.

But not all remote participants would
be able to.

Janet

ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx wrote on 08/16/2013 10:56:27
AM:

> From: Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 
> On 08/16/2013 09:38 AM, Janet P Gunn wrote:
> > 
> ...I want it from 
> > people who can't get approval for even a $100 expense, from people
> > who are between jobs, people from academia, and even from just
plain
> > ordinary users rather than just vendors or big corps. 
> 
> I agree. 
> 
> The realities of internal politics/funding being what they are, it
> is sometimes  going to be just as hard to get $100 "remote"
fee 
> approved as it as to  get the whole f2f trip approved. 
> As someone who just spent $3.5K out of pocket
to show up in Berlin, 
> I have a hard time being sympathetic to someone who won't 
> participate because he has to spend $100 out of pocket.
> 
> Keith