Geoff, I believe the intention was to achieve
a uniform requirement for payment of announced meeting fees, whether for
plenaries or for interims, so that we might have some basis for uniform
enforcement to protect both IEEE 802 and our hosting companies from
non-cooperative deadbeats.
> I agree ... that was certainly my goal (I've
already had a would-be deadbeat try to attend one of my meetings ... he was
told that to be in the meeting, he'd
> have to produce a badge as proof of registration
... he left rather than pay the registration
fee).
A
consistent policy is always easier to enforce uniformly than a plethora of
committee specific rules that vary from group to group.
> Again I agree
... a consistent policy is needed both so everyone can be told up front what
the rules are and also for enforcement.
If we want to encourage hosts to
continue to volunteer, we need to offer them at least some basis for fee
enforcement to protect their downside.
> I think we do owe those who host our interims a
basis for fee enforcement. Simply showing someone the door isn't enough
... there should be
> some penalty (loss of voting rights ... or a
"negative credit" that non-voting deadbeats would have to additionally
overcome, for example)
>
> At the wireless interims, we've had "loaner"
wireless cards ... we take a credit card as a deposit ... and we deliberately
made the (duly-noticed)
> charge for not returning the card punative, for
the purpose of encouraging folks to return them, rather than considering us a
convenient "store"
> from which to "buy" their cards
...
I
think Bill's proposal does that very nicely without getting too
cumbersome.
Thanx, Buzz
Dr. Everett O. (Buzz)
Rigsbee
Boeing SSG
PO Box 3707, M/S:
7M-FM
Seattle, WA 98124
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(425) 865-2443
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email: everett.o.rigsbee@boeing.com