Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This reply seems to presume that "independent" developers should be
> considered by IETF to be the exceptional case, and only "dependent"
> developers (presumably those funded by huge corporations) have a right to sit
> at the big table. I think it should be the other way around - IETF should be
> optimized to facilitate contributions from independent parties, and those
> with sponsorship are welcome to sit at the same table as everyone else.
I think that, compared to other so-called SDOs, that the IETF is very much
already heavily optimized in that way.
> There was a time when IETF was more like this, even after we had to pay our
> own meeting costs. We got sucked into the mode of holding meetings at
> expensive hotels, especially after our attendance figures pushed into
Yes, it used to more like that, it is true.
I think we could consciously shrink our meeting size to fit into smaller
venues, but that decision would itself be considered to be excluding people.
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