Re: [77attendees] Single Company Meetings (Re: Ad hoc meetings in real meeting rooms)

  I think there is some confusion.  Brian is suggesting that the IETF 
not finance company meetings.  If your company paid for the meeting 
(regardless of whether you saw the bill), as far as I'm concerned, what 
business is it of the IETF?  I wouldn't even mind the IETF letting out 
unused rooms to companies but for the fact that we'd surely run low, and 
there would be no easy way to fairly allocate them.

Eliot

On 3/30/10 5:44 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> I didn't see a bill for it, but I wasn't the requester, either - 
> anyway, my understanding is that Huawei paid for a meeting room on 
> Sunday night as well.
>
> I'm remembering various companies doing this as far back as the late 
> 1990s (and I wasn't around before that, but wouldn't be surprised if 
> the practice started earlier). Is there a reason the IETF should have 
> a policy about such things? ("what problem are we solving?")
>
> Thanks,
>
> Spencer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Westerlund" 
> <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com>
> To: <jiyengar@fandm.edu>
> Cc: <77attendees@ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [77attendees] Single Company Meetings (Re: Ad hoc 
> meetings in real meeting rooms)
>
>
> Janardhan Iyengar skrev 2010-03-30 16:05:
>> Brian,
>>
>>> for a nod from an AD though; the IETF shouldn't be lending rooms for
>>> purposes such as single-company meetings, and you can't expect the
>>
>> So, what is the IETF policy on single-company meetings?  I saw at 
>> least one happen at IETF77.
>
> At this IETF I know that Ericsson and at least one more company paid for
> a meeting room on Sunday.
>
> cheers
>
> Magnus Westerlund
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