Re: [Mtgvenue] Review of draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process-04

["John Dickinson" <[e-mail]>]

On 31 Jan 2017, at 11:04, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:

>>
>> §3.4 Same question again. Also, I would like to see some mention of a
>> pool of accessible rooms being available in the IETF reservation and
>> that those rooms be reserved for people who require them. I don’t know
>> how large this pool needs to be. In Yokohama due to maintenance at the
>> hotel there were no fully wheelchair accessible rooms in the hotel.
>
>
> I apologize in advance for this, but do people have a sense of how often
> "is this venue accessible?" (for some value of "accessible") degenerates
> into "well, it WAS accessible, but the city nuked the sidewalks two weeks
> before the meeting/the hotel started renovations on the accessible
> facilities we were counting on/etc."?
>
> The answer to that may just point out imperfect our world is, so no
> document change is required, but I thought I should ask, even if it's to
> improve my own understanding ...

You are correct the city could have nuked the sidewalks two weeks before and it is an imperfect world. However, on this point, the contract with the hotel could make accessible rooms a requirement and given the length of time between contract and meeting I don’t think it unreasonable to expect them to arrange their maintenance around the meeting.

Thanks

John

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