RE: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

["Gray, Eric" <Eric.Gray at marconi.com>]

Dave,

	Certainly there are organizations that do this.  Those 
organizations are significantly different from the IETF.  For
one thing, the first thing we would have to do in the IETF -
if we adopted a model like this - is to establish a marketing
over-sight function to ensure fair and equitable disposition 
of sponsorship funds.

--
Eric

--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc2 at dcrocker.net] 
--> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:45 PM
--> To: Michael StJohns
--> Cc: Keith Moore; ietf at ietf.org; jordi.palet at consulintel.es
--> Subject: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"
--> 
--> Michael StJohns wrote:
--> > What I think Jordi is saying is that he wants the US sponsors to 
--> > subsidize the cost of the overseas meetings.  At least 
--> that's what it 
--> > works out to be....
--> 
--> This view can be mapped to a classic model that would have 
--> significant benefits 
--> for the IETF:
--> 
--> 
--> A "host" gets all sorts of marketing leverage out of the 
--> role in producing an 
--> IETF.
--> 
--> There is nothing that requires that the event site 
--> management effort be coupled 
--> with a particular host's venue.
--> 
--> If we moved to a model of having companies provide 
--> sponsorship funds, in return 
--> for which they get appropriate marketing presence, then we 
--> could have meeting 
--> venue management move to the sort of predictable and timely 
--> basis -- ie, far 
--> enough ahead of time -- that has been a concern for many years.
--> 
--> 
--> d/
--> 
--> -- 
--> 
--> Dave Crocker
--> Brandenburg InternetWorking
--> <http://bbiw.net>
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