Re: Interim step on meetings site feedback for sites currently under active consideration

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Thu, 21 April 2016 22:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: Interim step on meetings site feedback for sites currently under active consideration
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
To: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 21 Apr 2016, at 4:54 PM, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
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>>    And like you, I found this trip much easier than going to Asia, although I know our colleagues from Asia found it just the opposite. :)
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> Not necessarily. Asia’s a big place. Travel to Japan and Taipei was for me more difficult than Buenos Aires, and significantly more difficult than anywhere in North America.
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> Yoav

In which we discover the importance of 'great circle routes'.

And the fact that 'Asia' crosses almost 180 degrees of longitude
making it not very useful as a geographical locale.