Call for input: Venue assessment reports for Bengaluru, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai

[IETF Executive Director <[e-mail]>]

The IETF Administration LLC is seeking community input on the cities of Bengaluru (Bangalore), Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai, all in India, which it is considering as future meeting venues. These cities are being considered for IETF 128, March 6-12 2027, and IETF 131, March 18-24 2028. Other cities may also be considered for those meetings

In line with our venue selection process we present assessment reports for each city.  Please note however, that we no longer provide any preliminary recommendations, waiting instead until after we have received community feedback before making a recommendation.

	Bengaluru [1]
	Delhi [2]
	Goa [3]
	Hyderabad [4]
	Mumbai [5]


Community input is now sought on these assessment reports. In particular, local feedback would be very much appreciated for the following:

1.  For the cities of Bengaluru and Goa, no potential locations have been identified that are suitable for an IETF meeting.  These might be hotels with multiple large meeting spaces, or a convention center with multiple rooms.  We generally plan for meetings of 1000+ people.

2.  It is not clear to us how open and unfiltered Internet access is in India and if we would need to make special arrangements for a completely open circuit for the IETF network.

3.  The two sections, 5.3 and 6.1, that assess the safety of the city from two different aspects - in general and for specific demographics - is now largely assessed by the lived experience of locals and visitors.

4.  The reported air quality for Delhi is assessed as unsuitable and that for Hyderabad is unclear.


To provide input, please email [e-mail] with the name of the city (or cities) in the subject line and your feedback. This is a publicly visible one-way e-mail address: You can read the input [6], but you cannot subscribe to it. Additionally, all feedback is collated and published on a public Trello board [7].  If you wish to discuss venue selection, then please use the public mailing list [e-mail] but please note that any feedback sent solely to that list will not be considered.

This call for input closes on 20 January 2025.

Finally, details of the selection process [8] and completed and outstanding location assessments [9] are on our website.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF_Bengaluru_Venue_Assessment_Report_2024-12-06.pdf
[2] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF_Delhi_Venue_Assessment_Report_2024-12-06.pdf
[3] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF_Goa_Venue_Assessment_Report_2024-12-06.pdf
[4] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF_Hyderabad_Venue_Assessment_Report_2024-12-06.pdf
[5] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF_Mumbai_Venue_Assessment_Report_2024-12-06.pdf
[6] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/venue-selection
[7] https://trello.com/b/whq8I098/venue-selection-input
[8] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/ 
[9] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/meeting-location-assessment/

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
[e-mail]