Re: London is Venue for IETF 101

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On 16 November 2016 at 14:26, Phillip Hallam-Baker
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> IETF Administrative Director <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>     > The IAOC is pleased to announce London as the site for IETF 101 from
>>     > 18 - 23 March 2018.
>>
>>     > This will be the IETF's third  meeting in London.  The IETF met in
>>     > London for IETF 51 in 2001, hosted by BTexact Technologies and had
>>     > 2,226 attendees; and then again at IETF 89, hosted by ICANN, and had
>>     > 1,400 attendees.
>>
>> And, I think, it's in the same Hilton we have been in before?
>> The Hilton Metropole.... at least, we'll know where all the rooms are
>> hidden.
>
>
> I am not sure that there is another hotel in London that would suit. The
> name by the way comes from the former Hotel Metropole which used to occupy
> the same site which had a most interesting history.
>
> Since the elders of the Internet will be meeting in London again, perhaps I
> should bring 'The Internet'. My first cousin once removed is the speaker of
> the House of Lords, so I could ask him if I could just pop up to Big Ben and
> fetch it for the plenary.
>
> Would work better if we could get permission from the Beeb to show this
> while folk are waiting for the plenary.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg

Channel 4, actually. Shouldn't be hard to arrange.

Dave.