Consultation on changes to IETF meeting registration fees

[IETF Executive Director <[e-mail]>]

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 monetary cost of participation, and the IETF provides remote registration fee waivers to ensure that the fee is not a barrier to participation.

It has been eight years since the IETF last increased onsite meeting fees while, over that time, IETF meeting costs have risen significantly, in line with global inflation, and IETF meetings now incur an ongoing deficit that is unsustainable beyond the short term.  

The IETF Administration LLC has conducted a review of IETF meeting registration fees and proposes to increase them, largely in line with inflation, effective from IETF 117 San Francisco, 22-28 July 2023.  It further proposes to review fees annually in future.

The full review and details of the proposed changes can be found in 

	https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF_Meeting_Fee_Review_2023.pdf


Please provide feedback on this proposal either to the public list [e-mail] or directly to me at [e-mail] before Monday 3 April 2023..
 

-- 
Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
[e-mail]