Re: Promoting the IETF meetings

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> writes:
> > I don't have a problem with announcing the meeting on the ISOC
> > site but I'm concerned by the rationale implied by the message
> > Harald quoted, namely to make money. I'd certainly first want
> > to understand *why* money is being lost before deciding that
> > the appropriate thing to do is market IETF better.
> 
> no sponsors.
I understand this one.

> more staff.
> fewer attendees.
But not this one. Costs for IETF should scale roughly with the
number of attendees. If we have a lot of fixed costs that don't
scale that way we need to ask why.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr@rtfm.com]
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