Re: NANOG costs

[Simon Lockhart <simonl () rd bbc co uk>]

> We used to pay $150 or so to attend NANOG conferences.
> Why are we charged $300 now?  Where is our $150,000+
> going?

To be perfectly honest, I'm more than happy with the cost of the NANOG 
conference.

I get probably 2 or 3 invitations to "conferences" every week through the 
post, and they're all the equivalent of $2000 upwards for a 1 or 2 day 
conference. And these conferences are more a marketting hype, so will be 
*heavily* sponsored by the companies who present at them.

So, $300 for a 3 day conference, where it's stuff that's actually relevant 
and useful to my job, and isn't just a marketting exercise by the vendors 
who spam me with plenty of material anyway, is, in my view, good value for 
money.

Simon
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