RE: Hotel situation

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 16 December 2015 16:52 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
To: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: Hotel situation
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> Why are we continuing to have hotel issues meeting after meeting
> after meeting after meeting?

Because we can't force hotels to give us large allocations.   This was discussed at length at the last plenary.   Getting venues that do everything we want is hard.

That said, I think you'd make a great candidate for the IAOC next time if you feel like trying to disprove this point!   :)