Re: [Mtgvenue] Updated potential meeting location list

Jay,

+1 to everything John said.

As you clean up the list and get to the point where cities can again be
nominated, it would be instructive to look back at past IETF cities that
aren't on the current list and re-evaluate them. Minneapolis was a GREAT
city for the IETF. In addition to what John said, the hotel was well-laid
out with wide hallways, and many lunch and dinner restaurants can be
reached without ever stepping outdoors thanks to the network of skywalks
and tunnels interconnecting city buildings. And we had some pleasant
socials there as well.

(I have to admit being a bit biased - I co-hosted one of the Minneapolis
meetings.)

Cheers,
Andy

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:28 AM John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:

> Jay,
>
> (moving this to mtgvenue, per Alissa's suggestion, because the
> dead horse has been adequately kicked on the IETF list, and
> because I agree with Andrew that it would be good to let the
> recent model run for a bit before we start second-guessing it)
>
> --On Friday, February 21, 2020 07:37 +1300 Jay Daley
> <jay@ietf.org> wrote:
>
> >> I also admit to being a little confused by there being
> >> several cities that were just added to the list of those
> >> assessed as suitable yet already have meetings scheduled or
> >> very recently hosted meetings (Philly, San Fran, Vancouver,
> >> Singapore). Can you shed some light on this seeming
> >> discrepancy?
> >
> > This was an administrative oversight on our part - basically
> > it fell through the cracks in the transition from the IAOC to
> > the LLC.
>
> I was surprised by another omission/ apparent discrepancy.  We
> met many times, IMO very successfully, in Minneapolis, often in
> the winter.  Many of us didn't like the cold, others did, others
> were not bothered.  There is an international airport with
> direct flights to multiple cities in Europe and Asia as well as
> many North American cities and plausible connections to Latin
> America and the South Pacific.  It is definitely not a tourist
> destination, especially in the winter so, assuming we can avoid
> other meetings in the same hotel at overlapping times (should be
> easier given our present scale), meetings there are fairly free
> of distractions.
>
> I'm not necessarily advocating going back there, but why isn't
> it on the list as, at least, being evaluated?  More generally,
> if there are other cities where we have successfully met
> multiple times that are not on the list (there may not be), why
> are they not listed?   I know that one of your predecessors
> developed an intense personal dislike for the place (I've never
> understood why), but one person's dislike, no matter what
> position he or she holds, does not seem like a very good reason
> to exclude a proven location from the list.
>
> thanks,
>    john
>
>
>
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