Re: Financials web page - absolutely last call

[Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com>]

I agree with the desire to stop guessing at the potential
questions.

However, the "we should have less cookies!" assertion
has been roundly debated on the IETF list on several
occasions already.

I, for one, would prefer to attempt to head it off with
a little bit of explanation (e.g., Al, can you provide
some guestimates of how much room rental might be if
we didn't buy cookies?).

Leslie.

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> --On tirsdag, januar 21, 2003 14:50:37 -0500 "Steven M. Bellovin" 
> <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
>
> > > I agree that folk will wonder about the number.  It might make sense
> > > to add to the side a note saying this is roughly $140 per paid
> > > attendee.
> > We can/should post a similar analysis about the reserve fund, in terms
> > of how many attendees "missing" per meeting would drain it.
> I think it's actually time to get this into the public view, and see 
> what questions *really* get asked. We are capable of generating all to 
> much fear, uncertainty and doubt when we theorize.
>
> And be ready to answer the questions....
>
> one final note: this is the money we *used* in 2001. In planning, this 
> is mainly useful as baseline data. No matter of second-guessing will 
> change what the amounts were in 2001. And they'll be different for 2002, 
> no matter what.
>
>                    Harald

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