Re: [tsvwg] travel funds for ietf for the next SCE talk?

Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 10 May 2019 14:19:52 -0400



    On 5/10/19 11:53 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:

    
      On May 10, 2019, at 11:10 AM, Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
      
        
            Maybe there should be a
              "non-sponsored" registration tier with a discount to help
              make it affordable for the little guys.
          
        
      The problem is figuring out a sustainability model for IETF
        that doesn’t rely on attendance fees and hotel stays.
    
    
    And this has been a problem since the early 1990s when the US
      government stopped subsidizing the meetings (and perhaps also the
      secretariat?).   But I wish we'd try harder to find that
      sustainability model rather than constantly punting the problem,
      because the Internet has been suffering for all that time from a
      lack of diverse participation in IETF.
    Keith