Re: Hotel situation
Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Fri, 18 December 2015 17:21 UTC
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From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:20:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: Hotel situation
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So, I suspect that at least part of this is caused by there being a number of different incentives at work / people optimizing for a number of different things[0]. 1: Some people attend IETF purely for getting work done - this means that they are perfectly happy to go back to the same N hotels, over and over. They don't *really* care what the destination is like, they don't need pretty beaches and holiday amenities. During they day they spend most of their time in sessions, and in the evening they spend much of their time hanging out with other IETFers. They will probably attend all / most meetings, regardless of where they are. Minneapolis is fine with them. 2: Some people like to combine their IETF work with a vacation / only show up for a session or two, and spend a significant amount of their time sightseeing / wandering around, etc. These folk do not like going back to the same destinations, they like locations (like Hawaii, Paris, Prague, etc) where they can go do other stuff. They are much less likely to attend a meeting in a location that they don't like (e.g they may skip Minneapolis in the winter). 3: Some set of people are responsible for actually, you know, running the meetings. They have many incentives, at least one of which is actually having enough money to be able to run the meetings, and have people happy with the meeting. Economies of scale makes it better to have lots of people... Seeing as people from set 1 are likely to attend everywhere where people from set 2 do, but not the opposite, it makes sense to optimize for set 2. 4: Folk from set 1 seem to be more vocal then people from set 2, but a: there are lots of people in set 2 / there is a significant overlap -- this was demonstrated by: A: the amount of discussion about "Whee, let's go to Minneapolis" versus B: the results of the meeting location survey done a few meetings back. 5: Some set of folk think that planning a meeting and choosing a location is easy. If you open a browser and type in "hotel" there are many, many results. This *surely* means that we can easily find one that will take out money. After all, we are a "prestigious" organization, no hotel is going to give up a thousand or so guaranteed guests, and, well, the $confernce met there a few years ago. Unfortunately $confernce is not the same as the IETF. There are many many constraints and tradeoffs that the IETF meeting planners have to take into account. I'm part of the NOC team and regularly chat with someone who is involved in some of the site selection. One of my favorite games is "Why don't we go to XXX?" - fairly much anywhere I suggest has already been considered, and there are good reasons (often surprising) that it has been disqualified. Believe it or not, the meeting selection committee / IOAC is not sitting around scratching their armpits and / or optimizing for ways to make people sad... W On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:45 AM Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > On 18 Dec 2015, at 08:36, Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> wrote: > > On 2015-12-17, at 19:10, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote: > > Perhaps if IETF attendees didn't demand everything that we do (lots of > breakout rooms, walking distance to bars and restaurants, no trains, the > ability to install and run our own network, not being in Minneapolis, large > cookies, specific price points, a willingness to keep going back to the > same N locations) we wouldn't have so much kvetching. > > > +1 > > > Indeed, Minneapolis is great! > > Tim > >
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- Re: Hotel situation Tim Chown
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- Re: Hotel situation Tim Chown
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- Re: Hotel situation Eggert, Lars
- Re: Hotel situation Leif Johansson
- Re: Hotel situation Tim Chown
- Re: Hotel situation Brian Rosen
- Re: Hotel situation Toerless Eckert
- Re: Hotel situation Stewart Bryant
- Re: Hotel situation Warren Kumari
- Re: Hotel situation Melinda Shore
- Re: Hotel situation Warren Kumari
- Re: Hotel situation Michal Krsek
- Re: Hotel situation Warren Kumari
- Re: Hotel situation Dave Crocker
- Venue Selection Objectives and Criteria was Re: H… Ray Pelletier
- Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Fred Baker (fred)
- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Kathleen Moriarty
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- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Michal Krsek
- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Andrew G. Malis
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- Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Wassim Haddad
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- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) Stephen Farrell
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Jari Arkko
- Re: Meeting rotation (was Hotel situation) John C Klensin
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Dave Crocker
- RE: Hotel situation Randall Gellens
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Ralph Droms
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- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Jari Arkko
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- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Eric Burger
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) tom p.
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Dave Crocker
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Brian E Carpenter
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- RE: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Ted Lemon
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Eric Burger
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Dave Crocker
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Joel M. Halpern
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- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Keith Moore
- Re: InterContinental BA experience so far (was: R… John Levine
- Re: InterContinental BA experience so far (was: R… Melinda Shore
- Re: InterContinental BA experience so far (was: R… John Levine
- Re: InterContinental BA experience so far (was: R… Fernando Gont
- RE: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Ted Lemon
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Brian E Carpenter
- RE: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Ted Lemon
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Keith Moore
- Re: Cross-area review (was Meeting rotation) Dave Crocker
- Payouts for missed blocks (was Re: Hotel situatio… Andrew Sullivan
- Re: Payouts for missed blocks (was Re: Hotel situ… John C Klensin
- Re: Payouts for missed blocks (was Re: Hotel situ… Theodore Ts'o
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- Re: Hotel situation John Levine
- Re: Hotel situation Jari Arkko
- Re: Hotel situation John C Klensin
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- Re: Hotel situation Jari Arkko
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- Re: Hotel situation John C Klensin
- Re: Hotel situation Dave Crocker
- Re: Hotel situation Tim Chown
- Re: Hotel situation John C Klensin
- Re: Venue Selection Objectives and Criteria was R… George, Wes
- Re: Hotel situation John C Klensin
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- Re: Hotel situation Ole Jacobsen
- Re: Hotel situation Jared Mauch
- Venue Data for Upcoming Meetings was Re: Hotel si… Ray Pelletier
- Re: Hotel situation tom p.
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- Re: Hotel situation Randy Bush
- Re: Hotel situation Paul Wouters
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- Re: Hotel situation Ole Jacobsen
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- Re: locations, was Hotel situation John Levine
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- Re: Hotel situation Randall Gellens
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- Re: Hotel situation Randall Gellens
- Re: Hotel situation Randall Gellens
- Re: Hotel situation Randall Gellens
- Re: not really the current Hotel situation John Levine
- Re: Hotel situation Lloyd Wood
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- Re: Hotel situation Toerless Eckert
- Re: Hotel situation John C Klensin
- Re: Hotel situation Ole Jacobsen
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- Re: ever more hypothetical Hotel situation Theodore V Faber
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