[lacnog] Fwd: ietf meeting fees

JORDI PALET MARTINEZ jordi.palet en consulintel.es
Jue Jun 13 17:55:18 -03 2019


Hola Carlos,

 

Si y no …

 

ISOC se hizo cargo del PIR (.org), con el objetivo principal de garantizar el soporte de IETF.

 

Y el .org, genera mucho mas dinero del que IETF necesita.

 

Creo que sería deseable que se baje mucho la cuota de participación, quizas unos 100 USD, porque los que nos lo pagamos de nuestro bolsillo, nos facilitaría mucho las cosas.

 

Cuesta tanto la cuota de registro (800 USD mas o menos), como el vuelo, según donde sea. A veces el vuelo a mi me sale mucho mas barato incluso. Me parece una exageración.

 

No lo pondría gratuito para evitar que alguien vaya “para pegarse un viaje y curiosear”, aunque dudo que eso ocurriera mucho, excepto participantes locales, y si son pocos, no pasa nada.

 

Quizas un sistema que permita que los empleados de empresas que facturen mas de “x” millones de dolares (que son las que mas beneficio tienen de hecho, gracias a la contribución de todos al IETF), paguen incluso mas de 1.000 USD, y en cambio las instituciones sin ánimo de lucro, gobiernos o las empresas que facturen menos de esa cantidad “x”, paguen esos 100 USD.

 

De hecho, me voy a plantear este sistema o algo parecido y se lo voy a plantear al Board del IETF LLC.

 

Saludos,

Jordi

@jordipalet

 

 

 

El 13/6/19 21:29, "LACNOG en nombre de Carlos Marcelo Martinez Cagnazzo" <lacnog-bounces en lacnic.net en nombre de carlosm3011 en gmail.com> escribió:

 

Y cuál sería tu propuesta Fernando? Entiendo la preocupación pero también entiendo de qué el IETF se tiene que financiar de alguna forma. 

 

No digo que no puedan existir otros mecanismos, pero si creo que hay que justamente buscarlos y proponerlos. 

 

S2

 

Carlos

 

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:10pm, Fernando Gont <fgont en si6networks.com> wrote:

 

Yo plantie esta inquietud en latinoamerica, junto con otras tantas. 

Nadie me dio ni pelota. 

EN fin... 


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Subject: Re: ietf meeting fees 
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 13:45:00 -0400 
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf en jck.com> 
To: Michael StJohns <mstjohns en comcast.net>, ietf en ietf.org 



--On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 21:29 -0400 Michael StJohns 
<mstjohns en comcast.net> wrote: 

> On 5/28/2019 6:49 PM, Keith Moore wrote: 
>> On 5/28/19 4:35 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: 
>... 
> IMO - it's not inertia as much as reality.  In the current 
> "we don't have members" and "we don't charge for standards" 
> model, we have three funding sources: meeting fees, sponsor 
> contributions (both meeting and sustaining), and checks from 
> the parents ... I mean ISOC contributions.    We could 
> become more like other standards organizations by charging for 
> either or both of membership (student, researcher, personal, 
> corporate etc) and copies of the standards, but I grok that 
> either of those changes could change the fundamentals of the 
> IETF in a way that could make us *less* viable or 
> relevant. 
>... 

Mike, 

I mostly agree, but have a different take on this, involving two 
other pieces of the same reality.  As participation costs [1] 
rise, it becomes harder for people without enterprise (profit or 
non-profit) support to attend f2f meetings.  For those of us 
with healthy consulting practices or significant 
non-occupational income, retirement income, or other reserves, 
attendance becomes a matter of personal or business priorities. 
For people operating as individuals and closer to the edge, the 
choice may be one of feasibility.   As a personal example, I've 
got some health issues that drive up minimum costs, but there 
have been years when I was attending substantially all meetings 
f2f in which the annual IETF bill came to USD 30K- 40K.  Even if 
one can get by at half or a third of that by cutting various 
costs, we still are not talking about chump change. 

It would be good to have actual numbers, although I'm not 
confident that many of us would want to disclose the details of 
our support situations to the community (or even the 
Secretariat), but my strong suspicion is the percentage of 
people actually participating as individuals -- on our own 
wallets with no enterprise/organization support -- is dropping 
relative to those who can depend on organizational money for 
travel support, registration fees, and maybe even a salary while 
at IETF or doing IETF work.   To the extent that is the case, it 
turns the model of participation by individuals into a 
convenient myth. 
Of course, organizations differ hugely about what, if anything, 
people they support to participate in the IETF are expected to 
do in return.  We've seen the full spectrum from "go there, do 
your thing, and don't pay any attention to any relationships to 
your day job" to clear corporate policies about positions 
employees are expected to take or avoid in the IETF, rewards for 
particular IETF-related actions or accomplishments, and so on. 
However, I suggest that even the potential for a company to hold 
people accountable for what they do in the IETF makes those 
people different from our traditional story (myth ?) about 
individual participation. 

That myth is, IMO, dangerous for at least three reasons.  One is 
that reasoning from the assumption that changing a model that 
doesn't exist in practice would fundamentally change the IETF 
may get in the way or clear thinking about alternatives, 
including financial alternatives.  Second, noting that 
participating as an IESG, IAB, etc., member is even more 
expensive than participating as an ordinary contributor, if our 
decision bodies come to be dominated by people with strong 
organizational support, sensitivity to cost and related issues 
by those who actually make the decisions may be reduced. 
Finally, many of our policies and procedures are designed around 
the assumption of individual participation and the related 
assumption of no coordinated organizational influence.  Should 
the IETF, as a standards developer ever get itself embroiled in 
claims that particular standards decisions were made because of 
undue organizational influences and that those decisions 
distorted the market for certain products, our failure to have 
policies and procedures in place to control that risk -- and our 
presumed claim that we don't need them because everyone 
participates as an individual would be more likely to fail a 
laugh test the more unbalanced the participant profile gets. 

>... 
> So in the current model we can a) charge higher meeting fees, 
> b) get more sponsorship, and c) ask ISOC for a bigger check. 
> None of these wells are bottomless.  We could reduce 
> expenditures - but what would you cut?  Meeting related 
> munchies and internet? Remote access bandwidth?  Staff costs? 
> Tools support? Standards production? 
>... 

Well, I don't know how much it would help and we have built 
systems that would cause it to take a long time for any changes 
to show significant effects (maybe another symptom of the 
"individual participation" myth), but we could also think about 
some ways to cut costs and how much they would save.   As 
examples, 
(i) Raise the threshold for creating a new WG, keeping a WG 
going, and/or giving WGs meeting time slots, or restrict the 
number of WGs to the point that we could reduce the number of 
days the IETF meets and/or the number of meeting rooms needed in 
parallel.  Reducing the number of days meetings last would 
reduce the number of hotel nights people had to pay for and 
perhaps even the number of hotel nights for staff the IETF, 
ISOC, etc., needed to pay for.  Reducing the number of parallel 
meeting rooms required might broaden the range of facilities we 
could consider and thereby permit lower-cost meeting site 
choices. 
(ii) Consider whether, with increasing use of interim meetings, 
we could reduce the number of all-IETF meetings from three to 
two.  This would presumably reduce annual travel, hotel, and 
other costs for both participants and staff and might help 
broaden participation by allowing at least some participants to 
spend a larger fraction of the year at their day jobs. 

(iii) Push back aggressively on small group meetings in parallel 
with IETF.  IIR, we used to require between three and four small 
meeting rooms: IAB and IESG (sometimes sharing one dedicated 
space), a work area for the Secretariat, and maybe something 
else like the Nomcom.  Anything else was required to take it 
elsewhere or meet in ordinary hotel rooms (or rooms of members 
of the leadership who were given complementary upgrades to 
suites under hotel contracts); we even aggressively discouraged 
other groups or company gatherings in the meeting hotel.  I 
gather the number of such spaces that are "required" has 
increased very significantly.  Given the complexities of hotel 
contracts I am not sure that cutting the number back down would 
lower costs for a given facility, but such a decrease would 
increase the number of facilities that could be considered, 
leaving us less at the mercy of facilities large enough to 
accommodate our increasing needs and more able to negotiate more 
attractive facility contracts. 

I note that each of the above has been proposed in the past, at 
least the first to the point of I-Ds proposing different 
variations.  What they have in common is that the IESG (and/or 
IASA) have been unwilling to take them up.  There are others 
that might be worth considering although I'd predict they would 
be even less likely to go anywhere: 

(iv) Push back on IAB, IESG, or other "retreats" that require 
additional travel, sometimes four weeks a year away from home 
rather than three, and staff support and travel.   These 
increase costs and decrease the number and diversity of people 
who can volunteer to serve in leadership positions.  Sometimes 
they are worth it, but the community's uncritical acceptance of 
them as regular events may imply that we are not paying enough 
attention to cost control (or that those will large travel and 
expense accounts don't notice the costs or don't care). 

(v) And, yes, we could attack the cookie budget by, e.g., 
creating an extra charge for snack breaks.   Given the nature of 
hotel contracts, it is not clear how much that would save, but 
making it negotiable would increase our ability to control costs 
and promote competition among candidate facilities. 

Those are just examples.  If we were serious about cost 
reductions, we could probably come up with others.  I suggest 
that "we" are no serious and that, in some respects, the 
increase in remote participation has reduced the incentives to 
control costs because someone who can't afford to travel to all 
f2f meetings just stops doing so.   However, that seems to me to 
be reducing the diversity of the IETF's leadership, making the 
idea of participation as individuals more or a fiction, and 
turning the IETF more into a body where participation and 
leadership is by large and well-funded organizations even though 
we keep trying to hide and deny that. 

>>> If you are arguing for actions that reduce or tend to reduce 
>>> or have  the potential to limit the intake of funds from 
>>> that model, I suggest  you also come up with a more than 
>>> handwaving proposal for how to  replace those funds or 
>>> explain which functions supported by the IETF  we're going 
>>> to eliminate to cover such shortfall. 
>> 
>> Perhaps we should also require more than handwaving reasons 
>> for  staying the same.  :-) 
> 
> See above - it's really just a question of who we want to be 
> and what we're willing to pay to become that.  If you can 
> tell me who we want to be, I can help you with figuring out 
> what it's going to cost in time, reputation, angst, etc. 
>... 

To turn this around a bit, maybe we should accept that who we 
claim to be is getting less true even if has yet to disappear 
entirely.  If we want to be a body that matches our claims, we 
need to figure out what we are willing to pay (in cost 
reductions, changes in workload, and adjustments to leadership 
and overhead structures) to get that back and retain it.   I am 
not holding my breath. 

best, 
   john 


[1] That is costs as seen by those individual participants, 
i.e., not just the registration fee but the sum of that, plus 
travel expenses (air, hotel, meals, visa application fees and 
associated travel when necessary, etc.), maybe plus lost income 
or other opportunity costs when our individual sources of income 
or other support make that relevant. 


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