Re: IETF 97 - Registration and Hotel Reservations Open Now!

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

As someone mentioned earlier, the Conrad simply doesn't have all that many
rooms.   So the answer is that we would have had to have chosen a different
conference hotel.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> The way it works at the moment seems to be that if you are lucky
>> enough to be doing an email check at the right time and book at once
>> you are OK, otherwise you miss out
>>
>
>
> I've been wondering about how to approach this topic in a way that makes
> sense for the IETF list and it occurs to me that it might be worth
> remembering that our industry is based on statistical multiplexing, and
> that's about probabilities and timing...
>
>    If we make sure there is a room for everyone who might want one, we
> will allocate too many and will waste quite a bit of money, due to the
> guarantees we have to make to the hotel.
>
>    So for practical purposes the room block needs to be of a size that is
> likely to be exceeded... at some point... almost always.
>
>    Currently, that 'some point' is measured in minutes, or at best small
> numbers of hours.
>
>    My question, therefore, is how large must the window be, before all the
> rooms typically sell out?
>
>
> d/
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>
>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net
>
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>
>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net
>
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