Re: IETF 100 Registration and Hotel Reservations Open!

[Alia Atlas <[e-mail]>]

At the bof before mtgvenue, the idea of requiring an IETF registration to
get a hotel room in the block did come up.  I think it requires some
improvement and thought - but that seems like a possible direction to
minimize some of the opportunistic early reservation.

On the other hand, having more options for folks to reserve at with
different prices and less network benefit from being in the main hotel is
helpful.

Regards,
Alia

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> I wonder if we need a ballot system for the HQ hotels?
>
>
> Right now the system rewards those who are most attuned to the timing of
> the hotel announcement.   I actually have a filter in my email that
> notifies me when the announcement comes out.
>
> I think it can definitely be argued that this is the wrong way to do
> things—I don't see it as being a particularly fair outcome that those IETF
> participants who are most proactive about signing up always tend to win.
> Suppose everyone who cares about this were as proactive as I am.   Then it
> would just be a little bit more random who happened to win.
>
> So, in principle, a lottery would be better, and maybe you get extra
> tickets if you lost last time (not sure how to make that work, but maybe
> some of the crypto wizards do).   The problem with this is that it's a
> _lot_ more tooling work for the secretariat.   I would hazard a guess that
> this is why it hasn't happened yet.
>
> I don't think it's actually realistic to try to solve this problem.   But
> it does suck.   I suppose those of us who tend to win most often could
> voluntarily delay our registrations, but I doubt we could get sufficiently
> universal cooperation to achieve fairness.
>