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Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 24 April 2018 13:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Ted Lemon wrote:
> 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.

from a different point of view, a clash is occurring between ietf 
bureaucracy and the different bureaucracies which ietf attendees need to 
deal with.

It is a rule of nature that when bureaucracies clash, it is never the 
bureaucracy which takes the hit.

Nick

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