Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was" Re: Hilton BA is Booked already?)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 7:27 PM -0500 1/12/16, John C Klensin wrote:

>  The IESG decided that we should go to South America
>  (whether they or IAOC came up with the idea seems to be in
>  dispute).  The community was asked if that would be ok (without
>  mentioning the implications for the hotel situation), came up
>  with answers the IESG interpreted as "yes', and then the
>  Meetings Committee moved ahead to make the best arrangements
>  possible given that the decision to go to Buenos Aires had
>  already been made.
>
>  Now, you probably see some problems with that sequence of events
>  (and I do too), but it seems to me that, if the Meetings
>  Committee is given what it reasonably construes as instructions
>  from the IAOC and/or IESG to hold a meeting in a particular
>  place at a particular time, then what we ended up with is
>  exactly what one should expect unless there are definite rules
>  that say "either these conditions MUST be met or you need to
>  come back to the community for explicit approval with the rule
>  for which an exception is proposed explicitly identified".
>  Noting comments from Ole, Bob Hinden, and others, there also
>  better be _very_ few such rules because the various systems are
>  easily overconstrained.

Seems like a good way forward.

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Randall Gellens
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