Re: Hotel situation

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 12/18/15 8:20 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> 5: Some set of folk think that planning a meeting and choosing a
> location is easy. 

I doubt anybody thinks it's easy.  I think most of us
who have a problem with the meeting situation are aware
that it's quite difficult.

Speaking strictly for myself, my problem with what's been
going on is that on the one hand we are de facto making meetings
the center of IETF activity for most participants and yet we're
not trying to optimize around the effectiveness of the meeting
space.  I think we possibly could do something around the
former but I don't think it's likely we will, based on both past
discussion and the behavior of very many very experienced
working group chairs (another discussion).  But we've got
two situations in tension with each other.

I don't think your characterization is correct or reasonable
and I found your comments a bit dismissive.

Melinda