I expect _I_ would pay $100 out of my own pocket, if it came to that.

But not all remote participants would be able to.

Janet

ietf-boun...@ietf.org wrote on 08/16/2013 10:56:27 AM:

> From: Keith Moore <mo...@network-heretics.com>
>
> 
> On 08/16/2013 09:38 AM, Janet P Gunn wrote:
> > 
> ...I want it from 
> > people who can't get approval for even a $100 expense, from people 
> > who are between jobs, people from academia, and even from just plain
> > ordinary users rather than just vendors or big corps. 
> 
> I agree. 
> 
> The realities of internal politics/funding being what they are, it 
> is sometimes  going to be just as hard to get $100 "remote" fee 
> approved as it as to  get the whole f2f trip approved. 
> As someone who just spent $3.5K out of pocket to show up in Berlin, 
> I have a hard time being sympathetic to someone who won't 
> participate because he has to spend $100 out of pocket.
> 
> Keith

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