Re: [Recentattendees] Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF 100

["Leslie Daigle" <[e-mail]>]

Dave,

> As for the concern you cite about earlier timing, when the choice of 
> venue is still 'hypothetical', can you please provide some details 
> about the nature of that concern and how it was concluded that those 
> concerns should dominate the choice of timing?

No, because nothing has been concluded :-)  .

I was trying to convey that we have taken one step towards gathering the 
kind of information Margaret/Melinda were discussing, but that figuring 
out the *next* step is (in my personal opinion) trickier.  It’s a work 
in progress.

Leslie.

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Leslie Daigle
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On 27 May 2016, at 12:00, Dave Crocker wrote:

> On 5/27/2016 8:52 AM, Leslie Daigle wrote:
>> Asking for input while things are still completely hypothetical is
>> potentially too soon (can get people spun up about things that 
>> won’t
>> work out for practical reasons).
>
>
> Leslie,
>
> A working premise has been that disclosing a target venue when the 
> contact with sites there are about to happen or are happening will 
> affect the negotiations.  Simply put, if they have good reason to 
> think that we are committed to that city and there aren't many choices 
> there, their negotiating leverage gets dramatically better than ours.
>
> As for the concern you cite about earlier timing, when the choice of 
> venue is still 'hypothetical', can you please provide some details 
> about the nature of that concern and how it was concluded that those 
> concerns should dominate the choice of timing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> d/
>
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>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net