Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was" Re: Hilton BA is Booked already?)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 2:27 PM -0500 12/17/15, John C Klensin wrote:

>  I think it would be entirely reasonable for
>  the IESG to say to the community "we need to be on-site
>  because... and believe that IETF efficiency would suffer if we
>  weren't".  Personally, I'd probably support that position.

...

>  FWIW, 28% of only 400+ rooms feels like a rather big number.
>  Had Ray said "5%", it wouldn't have occurred to ma to propose
>  that particular exercise.


I'd like to point out the obvious, which is that there are two parts 
to the hold-back number.  Expanding the IETF room block from 400 to, 
say, 800 or 900, would be a way to shrink the percent and cut way 
back on the "how can the hotel be sold out within an hour of the 
announcement" complaints.

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Randall Gellens
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