Re: [Mtgvenue] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mtgvenue-meeting-policy-04.txt> (High level guidance for the meeting policy of the IETF) to Best Current Practice

["Charles Eckel (eckelcu)" <[e-mail]>]

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From: Mtgvenue <[e-mail]> on behalf of Adam Roach <[e-mail]>
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 9:25 PM
To: Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Cc: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [Mtgvenue] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mtgvenue-meeting-policy-04.txt> (High level guidance for the meeting policy of the IETF) to Best Current Practice

    On 4/21/18 1:39 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
    >I don't see evidence sufficient to warrant a change to
    >something else right now. In saying that I regard the
    >1-1-1 scheme as being somewhat aspirational in practice,
    >and that's ok.
    
    
    Agreed, and I think the crux of the conversation underway is whether 
    these guidelines are aspirational or mandatory. The introduction of 
    meeting-policy makes it pretty clear that the document is an attempt to 
    write down the currently-in-use informal policy rather than change it, 
    and I believe that any citation of meeting-policy from venue-selection 
    needs to make the aspirational nature of the 1-1-1-* policy clear 
    (rather than, for example, using normative language, especially at a 
    MUST level).
    
    /a

[cue] I agree with Adam on all points here.

Cheers,
Charles