>Regarding the concern that John Klensin raised about Internet organizations that have too much money, I >cannot imagine this endowmwnr being that successful. However, if it were, I would argue for reduced >meeting fees to encourage the broadest possible participation in face-to-face meetings. The IETF gets about 1/3 of its income from meeting fees. If, as seems likely, we have more people coming electronically and fewer in person, we're going to need to replace the revenue since to a first approximation if we meet in person at all the costs are independent of the number of people that show up. So either there's a death spiral of in-person meeting fees, we try to charge people who attend remotely, or we find the money somewhere else. I see this as the obvious candidate for somewhere else. R's, John PS: In case it's not obvious, this is my opinion, not that of any four letter entities I might be on. But I did give money very soon after Russ did.