On Feb 12, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > In the past I've been nervous about giving remote participation too much > power in part because I'm worried about how that impacts meeting fees > and in part because I value cross-area involvement. It's possible that we could collect meeting fees from remote attendees, offering a hardship exemption for those who can't afford it. That would depend on remote attendance working better than it does now, I think, but it would be unfortunate if the main impediment to making remote attendance work well were that we didn't want to lose meeting revenue.