Re: [Mtgvenue] testing draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process against the venue change that just occurred

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

[Re-sending from my correct address]

On 18 Jul 2017, at 11:37, Eliot Lear wrote:

> ...look to the following Important criteria:
>
>
>>    o  Travel barriers to entry, including visa requirements, are
>>       unlikely to impede attendance by an overwhelming majority of
>>       participants.
>
>
>
> This wording seems to fail the "document running code" test, because 
> it
> is unlikely that the overwhelming majority of people would have 
> problems
> getting to San Francisco.  However, it seems likely that a significant
> number of people would, and that seems to me what we meant in the 
> first
> place.

Upon re-reading, I think you actually reversed this. The criteria above 
is that an overwhelming majority are *not* impeded from attending. In 
the San Francisco case, it can be plausibly claimed that the majority of 
folks who are able to attend was not overwhelming; there were too many 
people in the minority who could not attend. So, while imprecise, I 
don't think the running code failed to match the document: Someone 
determined that the majority did not "overwhelm" and therefore the 
switch was made.

pr

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