Re: Registration open for IETF 114

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 2:43 PM Ross Finlayson <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> > On May 5, 2022, at 9:57 AM, IETF Executive Director <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > The IETF 114 meeting venue is at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown.  As
> explained in the FAQ, you will need to register before you can reserve a
> guest room at the venue.
>
> Strictly speaking, this does not appear to be correct.  The link that I
> was sent to me (after I registered for the IETF) to reserve a guest room
> was not specific to my IETF registration.  While it gave me the
> IETF-discounted room rate, it would have worked for anyone, even if they
> hadn’t registered for the IETF.
>
> For other on-site IETF meetings (before Covid), the link to reserve a
> hotel guest room (at the IETF-discounted room rate) was included in the
> IETF “Registration open” email.  This allowed people to reserve an
> IETF-hotel room (often a scarce resource) early, while deferring actually
> registering for the IETF.
>
> Not including the hotel room link in the “Registration open” email appears
> to be an (understandable) ploy to get as many paid IETF registrations as
> early as possible.
>
>

Last time early registration carried a much bigger  discount than this time.
That is my only real concern.

Behcet

>         Ross.
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