Re: [95attendees] hhonors points credited ?

Jim Martin <jim@daedelus.com> Sun, 24 April 2016 21:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [95attendees] hhonors points credited ?
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	Can I encourage everyone to take a breath and see what the answer from the IAD/ IAOC / Meetings Committee / Secretariat will be? This thread started on a Saturday, so likely no one in a position to answer authoritatively has had a chance to review the appropriate contracts and make whatever contact might be needed with Hilton.

	- Jim

> On Apr 24, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Tim Chown <Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 24 Apr 2016, at 21:57, ietf@johnlevine.com wrote:
>> 
>>> my own two cents: points are the least of my concerns and I hope,
>>> contrary to your opinion, that secretariat/iaoc
>>> will _not_ take points into accounts while negotiating the best price
>>> for the whole meeting.
>> 
>> Same here.  The points are nice, but they're like a 1% rebate so
>> they're not worth making a lot of effort.
> 
> Sure, but we’ve received Hilton points in the past for our IETF bookings, so why not this time?
> 
> Tim
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