Re: Promoting the IETF meetings

[Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>]

> It's not clear to me why it shouldn't, however. Surely a substantial
> fraction of the secretariat's work is supporting the meetings and if
> those meetings are smaller there should be less work.

I think it makes almost no difference in terms of what the secretariat has
to do if a meeting has 1000 or 2000 people - they basically have
to order a different ammount of food - the work on the scheduling,
rooms, hotel arangements, IESG/IAB breakfasts AV etc do not change

they might hire a different number of temps for registration but
I do not think that much else changes

Scott