Melinda, you mean like disadvantaging the families of attendees, who don't participate in meetings, rather than disadvantaging the attendees who do? Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood ________________________________________ From: ietf <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> on behalf of Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, 23 May 2016 4:04 AM To: Eliot Lear; ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Recentattendees] IETF 100, Singapore -- proposed path forward and request for input On 5/22/16 10:02 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > Sorry- but there is no doubt that f2f meetings are high bandwidth > compared to any electronic form of communication. And I'm saying that > if we're going to have them we have a choice of who we disadvantage, for > surely we will disadvantage someone. This discussion is about how that > choice is made. Allow me to suggest that avoiding disadvantaging people who do not actually participate might be somewhat lower priority than avoiding disadvantaging those who do. Melinda