Re: Concerns about Singapore

"Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Mon, 11 April 2016 14:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: Concerns about Singapore
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
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From: "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:34:36 -0400
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Surprisingly to some, it turns out that it is a real help if the host 
has local people on the ground in the meeting city.  This creates a 
noticeable drawback to trying to just use 3 cities over and over.

Yours,
Joel

On 4/11/16 10:28 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
> I would be happy if we took a boring utilitarian
> attitude to meeting venues:
>
> Find three places that more or less work and
> just keep using them.
>
> Stewart
>
>