Re: Registration open for IETF 114

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Mon, 09 May 2022 19:48 UTC

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On 5/9/22 15:10, Ross Finlayson wrote:

>> This is not only extremely unreasonable, it's insulting to the very notion of IETF and offensive to many of those who aren't funded by Big Companies.  It's appalling.
> Maybe you haven’t been paying attention to hotel/motel rates in the past couple of years, but they have been undergoing significant inflation.
>
> It might be a bit of a stretch to describe $US190/day as “very reasonable”, but - for a high-end hotel in the center of a large city - this hardly counts as “unreasonable” anymore, sadly.
Since when is "high-end" a requirement for IETF?

If there aren't reasonably-priced rooms near an IETF venue, it's not a 
suitable venue.

Alternative hotels don't need to be "high-end", IMO.  They need to be 
safe, have plenty of rooms available, be close enough to walk to, and 
have reliable Wi-Fi.

Keith

p.s.  I don't want to insist that anyone be uncomfortable as a condition 
of participation in IETF, just like I don't want to insist that 
participants should have to spend hundreds of dollars per night to do 
so. But it seems to me that most people who really want to get work done 
don't need "high-end" accommodations.   And if "high-end" is more 
important in venue/hotel selection than "affordable", something's 
seriously out of whack.