Re: "We did not know" is not a good excuse

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 07 April 2016 20:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: "We did not know" is not a good excuse
To: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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On 4/7/2016 1:38 PM, John Levine wrote:
> Unless the country is so small that there's only one plausible meeting
> hotel, that still doesn't strike me as a problem.


IETF meeting venue requirements are sufficiently unusual that, in fact, 
there often are /very/ few choices within many countries.

d/


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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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