In article <5fd8d5f6-0939-a25f-9321-c12fa6e391a0@xxxxxxxxx> you write: >But the real answer to your question is here IMHO: > >https://www.m3aawg.org/join > >It's a formal membership organization, with membership fees, and the threat of expulsion is real and meaningful. That's an option that the IETF doesn't really have. When we send people home, which doesn't happen very often, we send the person, not the company. The company is welcome to send other people and they always have. R's, John
