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Subject: Feedback sought on proposed increases in IETF Meeting fees 
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:19:05 +1300
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The IETF holds three plenary meetings a year and charges a fee to =
participate in these meetings in order to offset the cost. The IETF does =
not charge any form of membership fee and makes all of its publications =
freely available, making the meeting fee the sole potential monetary =
cost of participation.  To ensure that this fee is not a barrier to =
participation, the IETF provides remote registration fee waivers with no =
questions asked.

In 2023 meeting fees were raised after many years of remaining static =
and the IETF LLC Board asked the IETF Executive Director to conduct an =
annual review (under section 7.5 of RFC 8711 [1], the setting of meeting =
fees is delegated to the IETF Executive Director). =20

This year, I conducted this review on the following basis:
- to approximately match US inflation of 2.75% with an average increase =
of 2.5% using projected attendance for 2026
- to keep the increases in the one-day fees as low as possible while =
still being above 50% of the normal week pass

The following increases are proposed for 2026, effective from IETF 126 =
Vienna in July 2026:

ONSITE:

- Super Early - from $925 to $950 (2.7%)
- Early - from $1155 to $1180 (2.2%)
- Standard - from $1265 to $1300 (2.8%)
- One Day Super Early - from $495 to $500 (1%)
- One Day Early - unchanged at $620
- One Day Standard  - unchanged at $680
- Student - from $160 to 165 (3.1%)

REMOTE:

- Super Early - from $264 to $270 (2.3%)
- Early - from $327 to $335 (2.5%)
- Standard - from $380 to  $390 (2.6%)
- One Day Super Early - from $148 to $150 (1.4%)
- One Day Early - unchanged at $180
- One Day Standard - unchanged at $210
- Student - from $58 to $60 (3.5%)

Feedback is now sought on these proposed increases.  Please provide your =
feedback either to me directly at exec-director@ietf.org or to the =
public mailing list admin-discuss@ietf.org by the end of Friday 14 =
November.

Thanks in advance
Jay

[1] =
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8711.html#name-ietf-meeting-revenues

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
exec-director@ietf.org