>Doesn't this move the IETF a bit further along the scale of meetings >that can only be afforded by corporates and rich people. In a word, no. I pay my own way to IETF meetings. For the Honolulu meeting, in addition to the registration fee, I'm paying about $1000 in airfare, $1300 for the hotel, $300 for food and incidentals, and I'm probably forgoing a couple of thousand dollars in income had I stayed home and worked. In that context, a $50 fee increase is a rounding error. Is there anyone whose trips to meetings are so cheap that $50 is a big increment? Also, as you surely know, the IETF has unusually good remote participation facilities, so anyone with enough computer equipment to join the e-mail lists where the majority of the work is done can also use jabber and streaming audio during the meetings. R's, John