<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Y cuál sería tu propuesta Fernando? Entiendo la preocupación pero también entiendo de qué el IETF se tiene que financiar de alguna forma. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">No digo que no puedan existir otros mecanismos, pero si creo que hay que justamente buscarlos y proponerlos. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">S2</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Carlos</p>
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<div id='cm_signature'> via <a href="https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=pa&cv=10.0.23&pv=9&source=email_footer_2">Newton Mail</a> </div><div class="cm_quote" style=" color: #787878">On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:10pm, Fernando Gont <<a href="mailto:fgont@si6networks.com">fgont@si6networks.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div id="oldcontent" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style=""><p dir="ltr">Yo plantie esta inquietud en latinoamerica, junto con otras tantas.
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Nadie me dio ni pelota.
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Subject: Re: ietf meeting fees
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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 13:45:00 -0400
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From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
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To: Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net>, ietf@ietf.org
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--On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 21:29 -0400 Michael StJohns
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<mstjohns@comcast.net> wrote:
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> On 5/28/2019 6:49 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
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>> On 5/28/19 4:35 PM, Michael StJohns wrote:
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>...
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> IMO - it's not inertia as much as reality. In the current
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> "we don't have members" and "we don't charge for standards"
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> model, we have three funding sources: meeting fees, sponsor
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> contributions (both meeting and sustaining), and checks from
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> the parents ... I mean ISOC contributions. We could
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> become more like other standards organizations by charging for
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> either or both of membership (student, researcher, personal,
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> corporate etc) and copies of the standards, but I grok that
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> either of those changes could change the fundamentals of the
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> IETF in a way that could make us *less* viable or
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> relevant.
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>...
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Mike,
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I mostly agree, but have a different take on this, involving two
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other pieces of the same reality. As participation costs [1]
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rise, it becomes harder for people without enterprise (profit or
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non-profit) support to attend f2f meetings. For those of us
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with healthy consulting practices or significant
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non-occupational income, retirement income, or other reserves,
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attendance becomes a matter of personal or business priorities.
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For people operating as individuals and closer to the edge, the
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choice may be one of feasibility. As a personal example, I've
<br>
got some health issues that drive up minimum costs, but there
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have been years when I was attending substantially all meetings
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f2f in which the annual IETF bill came to USD 30K- 40K. Even if
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one can get by at half or a third of that by cutting various
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costs, we still are not talking about chump change.
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It would be good to have actual numbers, although I'm not
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confident that many of us would want to disclose the details of
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our support situations to the community (or even the
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Secretariat), but my strong suspicion is the percentage of
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people actually participating as individuals -- on our own
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wallets with no enterprise/organization support -- is dropping
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relative to those who can depend on organizational money for
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travel support, registration fees, and maybe even a salary while
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at IETF or doing IETF work. To the extent that is the case, it
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turns the model of participation by individuals into a
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convenient myth.
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Of course, organizations differ hugely about what, if anything,
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people they support to participate in the IETF are expected to
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do in return. We've seen the full spectrum from "go there, do
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your thing, and don't pay any attention to any relationships to
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your day job" to clear corporate policies about positions
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employees are expected to take or avoid in the IETF, rewards for
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particular IETF-related actions or accomplishments, and so on.
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However, I suggest that even the potential for a company to hold
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people accountable for what they do in the IETF makes those
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people different from our traditional story (myth ?) about
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individual participation.
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That myth is, IMO, dangerous for at least three reasons. One is
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that reasoning from the assumption that changing a model that
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doesn't exist in practice would fundamentally change the IETF
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may get in the way or clear thinking about alternatives,
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including financial alternatives. Second, noting that
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participating as an IESG, IAB, etc., member is even more
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expensive than participating as an ordinary contributor, if our
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decision bodies come to be dominated by people with strong
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organizational support, sensitivity to cost and related issues
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by those who actually make the decisions may be reduced.
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Finally, many of our policies and procedures are designed around
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the assumption of individual participation and the related
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assumption of no coordinated organizational influence. Should
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the IETF, as a standards developer ever get itself embroiled in
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claims that particular standards decisions were made because of
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undue organizational influences and that those decisions
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distorted the market for certain products, our failure to have
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policies and procedures in place to control that risk -- and our
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presumed claim that we don't need them because everyone
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participates as an individual would be more likely to fail a
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laugh test the more unbalanced the participant profile gets.
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>...
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> So in the current model we can a) charge higher meeting fees,
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> b) get more sponsorship, and c) ask ISOC for a bigger check.
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> None of these wells are bottomless. We could reduce
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> expenditures - but what would you cut? Meeting related
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> munchies and internet? Remote access bandwidth? Staff costs?
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> Tools support? Standards production?
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>...
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Well, I don't know how much it would help and we have built
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systems that would cause it to take a long time for any changes
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to show significant effects (maybe another symptom of the
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"individual participation" myth), but we could also think about
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some ways to cut costs and how much they would save. As
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examples,
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(i) Raise the threshold for creating a new WG, keeping a WG
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going, and/or giving WGs meeting time slots, or restrict the
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number of WGs to the point that we could reduce the number of
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days the IETF meets and/or the number of meeting rooms needed in
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parallel. Reducing the number of days meetings last would
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reduce the number of hotel nights people had to pay for and
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perhaps even the number of hotel nights for staff the IETF,
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ISOC, etc., needed to pay for. Reducing the number of parallel
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meeting rooms required might broaden the range of facilities we
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could consider and thereby permit lower-cost meeting site
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choices.
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(ii) Consider whether, with increasing use of interim meetings,
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we could reduce the number of all-IETF meetings from three to
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two. This would presumably reduce annual travel, hotel, and
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other costs for both participants and staff and might help
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broaden participation by allowing at least some participants to
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spend a larger fraction of the year at their day jobs.
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(iii) Push back aggressively on small group meetings in parallel
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with IETF. IIR, we used to require between three and four small
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meeting rooms: IAB and IESG (sometimes sharing one dedicated
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space), a work area for the Secretariat, and maybe something
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else like the Nomcom. Anything else was required to take it
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elsewhere or meet in ordinary hotel rooms (or rooms of members
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of the leadership who were given complementary upgrades to
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suites under hotel contracts); we even aggressively discouraged
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other groups or company gatherings in the meeting hotel. I
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gather the number of such spaces that are "required" has
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increased very significantly. Given the complexities of hotel
<br>
contracts I am not sure that cutting the number back down would
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lower costs for a given facility, but such a decrease would
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increase the number of facilities that could be considered,
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leaving us less at the mercy of facilities large enough to
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accommodate our increasing needs and more able to negotiate more
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attractive facility contracts.
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I note that each of the above has been proposed in the past, at
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least the first to the point of I-Ds proposing different
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variations. What they have in common is that the IESG (and/or
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IASA) have been unwilling to take them up. There are others
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that might be worth considering although I'd predict they would
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be even less likely to go anywhere:
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(iv) Push back on IAB, IESG, or other "retreats" that require
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additional travel, sometimes four weeks a year away from home
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rather than three, and staff support and travel. These
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increase costs and decrease the number and diversity of people
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who can volunteer to serve in leadership positions. Sometimes
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they are worth it, but the community's uncritical acceptance of
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them as regular events may imply that we are not paying enough
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attention to cost control (or that those will large travel and
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expense accounts don't notice the costs or don't care).
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(v) And, yes, we could attack the cookie budget by, e.g.,
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creating an extra charge for snack breaks. Given the nature of
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hotel contracts, it is not clear how much that would save, but
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making it negotiable would increase our ability to control costs
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and promote competition among candidate facilities.
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Those are just examples. If we were serious about cost
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reductions, we could probably come up with others. I suggest
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that "we" are no serious and that, in some respects, the
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increase in remote participation has reduced the incentives to
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control costs because someone who can't afford to travel to all
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f2f meetings just stops doing so. However, that seems to me to
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be reducing the diversity of the IETF's leadership, making the
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idea of participation as individuals more or a fiction, and
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turning the IETF more into a body where participation and
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leadership is by large and well-funded organizations even though
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we keep trying to hide and deny that.
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>>> If you are arguing for actions that reduce or tend to reduce
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>>> or have the potential to limit the intake of funds from
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>>> that model, I suggest you also come up with a more than
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>>> handwaving proposal for how to replace those funds or
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>>> explain which functions supported by the IETF we're going
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>>> to eliminate to cover such shortfall.
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>>
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>> Perhaps we should also require more than handwaving reasons
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>> for staying the same. :-)
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>
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> See above - it's really just a question of who we want to be
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> and what we're willing to pay to become that. If you can
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> tell me who we want to be, I can help you with figuring out
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> what it's going to cost in time, reputation, angst, etc.
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>...
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To turn this around a bit, maybe we should accept that who we
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claim to be is getting less true even if has yet to disappear
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entirely. If we want to be a body that matches our claims, we
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need to figure out what we are willing to pay (in cost
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reductions, changes in workload, and adjustments to leadership
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and overhead structures) to get that back and retain it. I am
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not holding my breath.
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best,
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john
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[1] That is costs as seen by those individual participants,
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i.e., not just the registration fee but the sum of that, plus
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travel expenses (air, hotel, meals, visa application fees and
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associated travel when necessary, etc.), maybe plus lost income
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or other opportunity costs when our individual sources of income
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or other support make that relevant.
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