For example, why shouldn't participants pay for meetings. ICANN proposed a 2.4mm budget for travel and meetings. Direct participation fees can alleviate some part of that. Let's face it - ICANN locates its meetings in far-flung locations, so that most of us are paying high air fare, and all of us are paying non inconsiderable amounts for hotel, per diem, etc. Therefore a fee of about $500/person should not be a burden or prevent someone from attending. Plus, remote
The issue is a lot of smaller registrars will stop attending. Any additional cost may result in a decrease in attendance and a decrease in the number of voices and participants at these meetings. I am not disagreeing however that ICANN should look at some other way to subsidise that budget. bhavin