Actually, I don't disagree the increase of 50 USD this year or future year. What I concerned is that the current mechanism is to increase 50 USD every few years. The increase of the registration fee seems to be the only solution to make up the running expenditure of ietf. We might need to consider other solution, or some renewable solution too.
Best Regards Jiankang Yao As someone participating in the IETF as self-funded, while I don't necessarily like increase, the $50 increase is small compared to the cost to fly to and stay in Hawaii (personally I could go to Minneapolis 3 times a year). The registration is just one small part of the actual expense of attending.
I agree. Whether funded by a big company, a small company, or your own little one-person consultancy, the registration cost is easily dominated by three things: - Travel cost (for me - always, but it’s most of the time for everyone)
- Hotel cost (nearly always)
- Hopefully, what each of us does on a regular work-week is worth more than $700.
It’s the last one that gives big companies a significant advantage. A Cisco or a Huawei can afford to send 100 or dozens of engineers to meetings three times a year, and can afford for them to take on roles as chairs, IAB and IAOC members, and area directors. That costs a lot more than $700 three times a year.
Yoav
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