On Feb 14, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Mary Barnes <mary.h.barnes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think the biggest problem that high quality remote participation will introduce is that companies will become even more reluctant to send people to the face to face meetings. I do still see value in people attending face to face IETF meetings with some regularity, I strongly believe that IETF moving to a model that doesn't require so many people to travel to get the work done is a good thing and ought to be a longterm objective. Fewer F2F meetings per year would be one way to accomplish this: encourage more interim virtual meetings, and then cut back to two or one f2f meeting per year. Of course now we have strayed a very long way from the original topic, but I guess that was inevitable... :)