Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines

[Nick Hilliard <nick@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted Lemon wrote:
> The early registration discount is an incentive for people to give the 
> IETF more certainty about anticipated revenue in advance of the meeting. 
>    You are giving the IETF something, and the IETF is incentivizing you 
> to give it that thing.

from a different point of view, a clash is occurring between ietf 
bureaucracy and the different bureaucracies which ietf attendees need to 
deal with.

It is a rule of nature that when bureaucracies clash, it is never the 
bureaucracy which takes the hit.

Nick