Re: [81attendees] diverse meeting locations (was: are we getting complacent? Good job!)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 7:43 PM -0400 8/8/11, John C Klensin wrote:

>  the only
>  thing total attendance figures are good for is the P/L
>  statement.  That is legitimate and important to the IAOC, but
>  has little to do with effective IETF functioning
>
>  Unless your point is that almost nothing we do is likely to make
>  more than about 300 or 400 difference in total attendees no
>  matter what we do and where we go.  If so, I'd tend to agree
>  with that, at least within very broad limits, but note that a
>  drop of a few hundred attendees for several meetings in a row
>  could have really nasty effects on the budget.

So, we need a way to encourage the core of people who are interested 
in doing work, plus maybe also enough casual attendees that we prop 
up the revenue side of the budget, and for companies to pay for 
people to go, and while we're at it, maybe we can also mitigate the 
problem of rooms too crowded with "IETF tourists" for people 
interested in doing work to get in?  Something along the lines of:

	- Meetings in Hawaii and other desirable locales
	- A lower "basic entry" registration fee which gets one in to the 
reception, social, and plenary
	- A higher "hard core" registration fee allowing unlimited entry 
to all WGs and BOFs
	- A "premier facilitator" discount for companies registering 10, 
20, 30 attendees
	- A "valiant contributor" discount on an individual registration 
fees based on number of RFCs published as author, editor, 
contributor, or acknowledgement
	- Press releases for each meeting with names of companies paying 
for people to attend, (in order of how much they paid total) 
congratulating them for helping progress the future of the Internet

-- 
Randall Gellens
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