[Mtgvenue] What does "mandatory mean?"

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

It's clear that one of the problems underlying our inability
to come to agreement on some of the requirements is that
there's not agreement about what "mandatory" means in the
context of this document.  It seems that some people see
"mandatory" (and other requirements language) as applying
to the venue under consideration, and others see "mandatory"
as applying to the IAOC meeting committee's evaluation
process.  To be honest, in the current draft I read it as
applying to the venue.

I don't see any way to come to consensus on the requirements
without greater clarity about that, and it also seems clear
that the document needs to include some text stating explicitly
what entity the requirements language applies to (the venue or
the committee).  But first, we need agreement on what's
intended.

Melinda