Call for input: Venue assessment reports for Beijing, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur and Shenzhen

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

The IETF Administration LLC is seeking community input on the cities of Beijing China; Istanbul,Turkiye; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Shenzhen, China, which it is considering as future meeting venues. All of these cities are being considered for IETF 125 , March 14-20, 2026.  Other cities may also be considered for that meeting.

In line with our venue selection process we present assessment reports and preliminary recommendations for each city:

	Beijing, no recommendation, report at [1]
	Istanbul, not recommended as suitable, report at [2]
	Kuala Lumpur, recommended as suitable, report at [3]
	Shenzhen, no recommendation, report at [4]

Community input is now sought on these assessment reports and preliminary recommendations. To provide input, please email [e-mail] with the name of the city in the subject line. This is a publicly visible one-way e-mail address: You can read the input [5], but you cannot subscribe to it. Additionally, all feedback is collated and published on a public Trello board [6].

This call for input closes on 16 June 2023.

Finally, details of the selection process [7] and completed and outstanding location assessments [8] are on our website.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Beijing-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf
[2] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Istanbul-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf
[3] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-KualaLumpur-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf
[4] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Shenzhen-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf
[5] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/venue-selection
[6] https://trello.com/b/whq8I098/venue-selection-input
[7] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/ 
[8] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/meeting-location-assessment/

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
[e-mail]