[tsvwg] travel funds for ietf for the next SCE talk?

[Dave Taht <[e-mail]>]

Several members of the open source "bufferbloat.net" group do
regularly participate in ietf mailing lists and remote meetings, but
it is rare that any of us
can actually afford to attend IETF. In fact, we've had no travel
budget for 3 years running. I'd mostly reduced my involvement to BABEL
after the AQM wg closed, and that remotely only.

This past IETF, we had to hold a bake sale on the bloat mailing list
as well as melt all my credit cards in order to get our new SCE "Some
Congestion Experienced" AQM concept in front of the tsvwg and iccrg
working groups in contrast to the cablelabs dualpi proposal.

(if anyone cares, the TSVWG talk and slides are here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmWyr0JDJM&t=1h3m50s ) -

The controversy in the open source community, covered here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/783673/

We've been *very strongly encouraged* to present again at the upcoming
ietf in montreal, but I'm now in no position to sponsor the 2-3 core
people again that need to present the follow-on results in the 5 or so
related wgs. Is there an org, a fund, a means, a way, to get a bunch
of rather poor, but innovative, open source devs and theorist, out
there, that we can apply to? raise the ~9k needed? isoc? Something?

(and if it were possible i'd rather like to have what I had had to
spend back, so I can pour it into recreating a network testbed for
this work. I'm not planning to attend, myself. The one trip alone
wiped out ecn-sane's budget for the year)

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Dave Täht
CTO, TekLibre, LLC
Co-Founder, Bufferbloat.net
http://www.teklibre.com
Tel: [phone]