I agree that Lloyd's model is the wrong one. But there is probably a model that would work if we had someone with a little commercial savvy.
What I would do is to talk to folk like the IEEE and BCS and find out how they fund themselves. I have not been to the BCS HQ but the other engineering institutes have palatial buildings in Mayfair and the like.
No, don't charge for RFCs. That would not work. But training and accreditation could be the right fit if the business could be run so as to accumulate a sufficiently large float to weather the inevitable downturns.
I used to wonder how we could charge $800/day for training courses to classes of 16. Then the dotcrash came along and I realized it was because training companies only last one business cycle and then go bust.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been trying to find something in this message with which I
> disagree. So far, no suck luck.
>
>> you could do a bundle of secure subscriptions with T-shirts to really
>> attract the librarian crowd you're marketing to. They earn less than
>> you do, and so they value free clothing more. Plus, an even weaker
>> sense of what might be considered fashionable.
as i wrote to lloyd privately, i think he vastly overestimates the
sartorial abilities of the average ietf attendee when compared to
that of librarians.
randy
