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Re: IETF 62

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de> Mon, 20 September 2004 06:57 UTC

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Hi,

Sam Hartman wrote:
> Two things brought up in this thread disturb me.  First, there seems
> to be the idea that we should be choosing where IETFs are held for
> political purposes--to make statements for or against certain
> governments.  I'm not quite sure this was said or implied, but if it
> was, I'm made a bit uncomfortable by it.      

please don't overinterpret. I'd be happy to discuss this further off-list.

> Secondly, I'm concerned that people are proposing optimizing for
> pleasant climate and good vacation spots.  I come to the IETF to get
> work done; I'd rather be at meetings where the other participants have
> the same goal.  We should be somewhat careful of optimizing for
> enjoyable location.  I'd rather see us optimize for who can attend and
> cost.

If you have data that shows an inverse proportionality between the 
enjoyability of past locations and the generated IETF output, please 
post it.

Lars
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Lars Eggert                                     NEC Network Laboratories

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