Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 24 April 2018 12:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:28:53 -0400
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On Apr 24, 2018, at 7:17 AM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
> Can you say something about how the difference between 7 weeks and 4 weeks is relevant to the meeting fee?

The early registration discount is an incentive for people to give the IETF more certainty about anticipated revenue in advance of the meeting.   You are giving the IETF something, and the IETF is incentivizing you to give it that thing.