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Re: [802SEC] Electronic Participation in Interim Meetings



Can we have both questions?

The results may be of interest both ways...

Matthew Sherman, Ph.D. 
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BAE Systems -  Network Systems (NS) 
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Subject: Re: [802SEC] Electronic Participation in Interim Meetings

Geoff

I wholeheartedly agree.

The question should read "Would you participate electronically if you
were 
required to register for meeting and pay the normal fee as any
participant."

Bob


At 07:13 PM 1/10/2009 -0800, Geoff Thompson wrote:

>Mat-
>
>At 05:56 PM 1/10/2009 , Sherman, Matthew J. (US SSA) wrote:
> > Would you participate electronically if you were required
> > to pay the incremental costs for providing electronic
> > participation? (Yes / No)
>
>Such a system would not be fair to those who show up at the meeting. I
see 
>no reason why those who show up should not should their fair share of
the 
>overhead of putting on a meeting. That means, in my mind, that they pay

>full registration fee less any portion of that which is for local food
and 
>beverage.
>
>When we are putting on a mixed meeting, it has significant overhead
costs 
>that remote attendees should share in. If folks start opting for remote

>participation over "being there" because they aren't supporting the
cost 
>of putting on the meeting, then it increasingly will drive the cost of 
>that onto those who bother to come. I believe that we want the bias (if

>any) to be in favor of getting together physically, not against.
>
>Geoff
>
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