Open Participation Principle regarding Remote Registration Fee
draft-ietf-shmoo-remote-fee-00
Network Working Group M. Kuehlewind
Internet-Draft Ericsson
Intended status: Best Current Practice J. Reed
Expires: 26 August 2021 R. Salz
Akamai
22 February 2021
Open Participation Principle regarding Remote Registration Fee
draft-ietf-shmoo-remote-fee-00
Abstract
This document proposes a principle for open participation that
extends the open process principle as defined in RFC3935 by stating
that there must always be a free option for online participation to
IETF meetings over the Internet.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Principle of open participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Financial impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Considerations on Use and Misuse of a Free Participation
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Introduction
Remote participation for IETF in-person meetings has evolved over
time from email-only to live chat and audio streaming, and,
currently, to a full online meeting system that is tightly integrated
with the in-room session and enables interactive participation by
audio and video. Due to this evolution, and because most in-person
attendees paid registration fees and this has been sufficient to
support the meeting, online participation has historically been free
for remote attendees.
Given this more full-blown participation option, the IETF has started
to observed an increasing number of remote participants. This
increase can be explained by the ease with which new participants can
join a meeting or only attend selected parts of the meeting agenda,
and also by a less strongly perceived need to attend every meeting in
person, either due to financial reasons or other circumstances. In
order to better understand these trends the IETF started requiring
registration as "participant" (in contrast to an "observer") for
remote participation, still without any registration fee applied.
With the recent move to fully online meetings, however, there is no
longer a distinction between remote and on-site participants. Since
costs still have to be covered, there is the need for a meeting fee
for remote participants, which risks the removal of the free remote
option.
This change led to concerns about the impact both on those who
regularly remotely attend meetings, as well as people looking to
attend IETF meetings for the first time. In both cases, even a small
registration fee can be a barrier to participation.
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2. Principle of open participation
This document outlines the principle of open participation and
solicits community feedback in order to reach consensus on this or a
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