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Re: [Mtgvenue] What does "mandatory mean?"

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 31 January 2017 22:49 UTC

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To: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@nomountain.net>, mtgvenue@ietf.org
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Mtgvenue] What does "mandatory mean?"
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On 01/02/2017 11:30, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 1/31/17 10:50 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> My point is a bit more subtle, and I tried to explain in the
>> reply I just sent to Andrew. It's *intended* to apply to the
>> venue, but it unintentionally applies to the IAOC process of
>> making judgment calls.
> 
> 
> It's a good point, although I'm not sure it's necessary
> to build firewalls against the IAOC doing really stupid
> things (I've been wrong about that sort of things before).
> The main thing is that I think we're blocked on
> this until some alternative text is proposed.  Presumably
> we can continue the discussion without personalizing it.

We certainly can. I'm not worried about the IAOC being stupid
but about confirmation bias. If I have a bit of a leaning towards
Timbuktu, I am likely to judge a $500 hotel room there as just
about affordable, without even knowing that my thinking is
biased. Whereas if it was the London Metropole, which I hated,
I'd probably judge $500 as excessive.

   Brian

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