I totally agree with this. There were only flagship conferences such as ICC, Globecom, Infocom and few specialized conferences LCN etc 15 or 20 years ago. Now I cannot even keep track of how may they are as one each day is being created. In the current economy where huge banks and corporations are disappearing, I am surprised we keep adding more conferences and that tells me there is a profit margin enough to run them (reason for high registration fees). Sense of having their own conferences for inflating egos goes unchecked. I agree with Henning that we need to look at this collectively and come up with a model that is fair and efficient, start with a clean slate. The true meaning of conference has gone by the way and is about time to resurrect that.
>My guess is that the larger size of the community is driven by the disproportionately greater availability of funding (at least for a while) in networking than in >other research areas.
Wow. I am not sure this is the message we want to send to NSF. The email coming from the developing countries does not really confirm that as well. Do we have the statistics as to how many researchers globally are working in networking and how many are so well funded? I suspect it is a very small percentage. If this theory holds good then there should be no problem of "no shows" since they have enough funds to travel and attend conferences.
Ravi
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