Barriers to entry

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Wed, 01 February 2017 11:24 UTC

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 03:22:45 -0800
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Hello,

There is a blog article at 
https://www.ietf.org/blog/2017/01/barriers-to-entry/ about "barriers 
to entry".  Dave Burstein [1] suggested that the IETF considers 
refunding the IETF attendance fee for an attendee who is blocked from 
attending the next IETF meeting due to the barriers to entry.

Does the IAOC agree to refunding the attendance fee for such cases?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg100934.html