Re: IETF 92 in Dallas!

joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Fri, 17 August 2012 19:15 UTC

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On 8/17/12 12:05 PM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> Is there any way to broaden the scope of IAOC choice and provide the 
> candidate locations which would meet IETF criteria by any IETF member ?
>
> For example once I know the criteria I could check around in Poland to 
> see if there is any place which would satisfy the future IETF venue.
>
> I am sure friends from South America would be glad to conduct similar 
> local research in their neighborhood. So would others from other 
> continents.
>
> Are the criteria for IETF meetings published or is this some sort of 
> top secret (for example how much the venue may cost) ?
>
> Could we all contribute via a wiki page ? Could we make the IETF 
> choice of location an open process ?
Hotel contracts by their nature need to be negotiated under mutual NDA  
unless you want all the vendors in the region to mysteriously arrive at 
the same lower bound.