Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IETF 104 Registration and Hotel Reservations Openo

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 15 January 2019 15:59 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:59:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IETF 104 Registration and Hotel Reservations Openo
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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That would cost over $4 million for a typical IETF, and would almost
certainly be a money loser because we would not be able to accommodate
everyone’s travel plans.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:55 Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
wrote:

>
> Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
>     > Because that deal is not on offer. The hotel is trying to create
> market
>     > conditions that favor them, and they don't offer a deal that doesn't
>     > sustain those conditions. You can argue that agreeing to these
>     > conditions is stupid, but not agreeing to them may result in the
> hotel
>
> Despite the negotiation, I find the IETF rate at the main hotel
> (particularly
> when it's Asia) is beyond what I can justify in my budget. I'd usually
> rather
> stay in the main hotel.
>
> Our blocks seem small compared to the total attendance... ~400 rooms with
> 1200 people attending, and yet our blocks seem to sell out frustratingly
> fast.
>
> It seems that if we could buy *all* the rooms in the hotel, that there
> would be no further optimization that the hotel could do.
> That's a high risk to the IETF, but if we can do it, then we might find a
> new
> balance in price.
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>
>
>
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