Re: Hotel situation

Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> Tue, 05 January 2016 09:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: Hotel situation
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>, Mary Barnes <mary.h.barnes@gmail.com>, Eric Gray <eric.gray@ericsson.com>
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On 04/01/2016 21:33, John C Klensin wrote:
> (1) While it is clear that people who favor going back to
> Minneapolis are in the minority of the Meetings Committee (at
> least as they and the IAOC count votes), it is much less clear
> that such people are in the minority of active participants in
> the IETF.
Minneapolis is really a metaphor for functional, works well for most
people, easy to get flights and hotels, flight times not too bad, not 
regarded
as a holiday trip at work, everyone is there to work.

It does not have to be Minneapolis, but the utilitarian properties above,
are in my view far more relevant than the IETF World Tour model we
seem to have in place.

- Stewart