Re: [78attendees] We'll meet again...

Cities like Maastricht and Hiroshima offer the "all in one place"
experience. Pretty much everything your would want to see/buy/eat
could be gotten to by foot, a short cab ride or even the tram.
This is also very much true for places like Oslo, Vancouver, and
yes Amsterdam (apart from the separation of venue and hotels for
an event as large as the IETF).

This has a lot more to do with geography than it has to do with
population density.

Ole

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Thomas Walsh wrote:

> Perhaps smaller isn't the right word.  Some people were complaining 
> about having easier airline access than Maastricht or Hiroshima 
> afforded.  Applying that as a screen would have meant missing such 
> wonderful venues as these two.  I'd like to keep the focus on the 
> nice job of the Maastricht host.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WORLEY, Dale R (Dale) [mailto:dworley@avaya.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 7:23 AM
> To: David Kessens; Thomas Walsh
> Cc: 78attendees@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [78attendees] We'll meet again...
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: 78attendees-bounces@ietf.org [78attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of David Kessens [david.kessens@nsn.com]
> 
> I am wondering, what is your definition of a small city ? Hiroshima's
> population would be the 4th largest city of the US if transplanted to the
> US. Or to say it in another way, it is larger than San Jose and San
> Francisco combined.
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Though Hiroshima would rank only 20th considering metro area populations.  But the 20th ranked metro area in the US is Denver, and nobody would consider Denver to be "too small" to host an IETF.
> 
> Hiroshima's metro population is about 20 times that of Maastricht.
> 
> Dale
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