Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was" Re: Hilton BA is Booked already?)
Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Fri, 18 December 2015 00:42 UTC
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Subject: Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was" Re: Hilton BA is Booked already?)
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On 12/17/2015 1:24 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Dave Crocker wrote: >> In this case, hotel choice is only part of the equation. Travel >> time and travel cost are two other major factors. So are additional >> costs, such as food in the main venue. (We had one main venue with >> reasonable hotel room rate but US$ 25 hamburgers...) > > ***OLE: I assuming you are referring to Yokohama, correct me if I am I meant a hotel we were at in Europe, I believe, some years ago and possibly again recently. The city itself was not generally insanely expensive. But food in that hotel was. And yes, Japanese major hotels have crazy prices. It was my first encounter with US$10 coffe, 20 years ago, while street-level outside food is better and a fraction the cost. In terms of inside food prices, I believe there is no choice in Japan, but there's plenty of choice in North America and Europe. >> To get better surveys, they need to be dramatically more carefully, >> in terms of question formulation, respondent selection and response >> analysis. This is not a new or unmentioned issue within the IAOC >> and meeting committee. What we currently do produces results >> dominated by well-funded, continuing participants who are highly >> experienced travelers; in effect, we get a tourism response from >> folk who are already likely to attend. > > ***OLE: At the end of the day it comes down to selecting a venue which > will accomodate our MEETING requirements, we use A LOT of rooms for > our meetings which makes that particularly challenging. Sorry, no. While yes, it limits our choices, we've have found a number of places over the years that handle us quite nicely. What actually is challenging is regularly having to find /new/ places. That's a very different problem. >> Choices like BA or Sydney inconvenience essentially all attendees, in >> favor of goals other than getting work done. > > ***OLE: Just to be clear, the IAOC did not choose Buenos Aires, the > IESG in dialog with the community did. The initiative was from the IAOC. And the 'dialog with the community' is a good example of the problematic survey methodology I was citing. This has been well-hashed before, so I won't review the details. >> To date, there has been little interest in making the necessary effort >> to focus on requirements for being more inclusive. > > ***OLE: It's a complicated issue and it's getting more complicated > as attendance grows, the economy expands (prices go up) and so on. > It would certainly be *possible* to go back to meeting at some > University campus... It is made particularly complicated by the introduction of social and marketing requirements that appear to be laudable but actually are entirely outside the requirements that we claim are primary for our meetings. They also tend to have no operational foundation for efficacy. Think of it as outreach theater... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net
- RE: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Adrian Farrel
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Stephen Farrell
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Dave Crocker
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Kathleen Moriarty
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Alia Atlas
- RE: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Christian Huitema
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Alia Atlas
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… John C Klensin
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Ole Jacobsen
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Dave Crocker
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… John Levine
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Christian Hopps
- RE: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… MAISONNEUVE, JULIEN (JULIEN)
- RE: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Ole Jacobsen
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Behcet Sarikaya
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Lou Berger
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Randall Gellens
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… John Levine
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… John C Klensin
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Eliot Lear
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Randall Gellens
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… John C Klensin
- Re: IETF hotel selection mode and a proposal (was… Randall Gellens