Re: [Mtgvenue] Updated potential meeting location list

Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 21 February 2020 17:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Mtgvenue] Updated potential meeting location list
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Minneapolis fell off the list due to the difficulty of the Chinese getting visas for a string of meetings - a US State Department issue that affected us. I personally like Minneapolis in December (January could be quite a bit different) - the city has facilities to enable people to get around easily without walking outdoors, and it works.

I tend to think that the original reason should either be applied consistently across US locations, or abandoned as not specifically about Minneapolis.

My two yen, yours may vary.

> On Feb 21, 2020, at 6:27 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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