[Mtgvenue] Was Brisbane a success to be repeated ?

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Sorry if subject question was asked and answered elswhere/earlier, please
provide pointers to summary thereof. If not:

Who will atually determine if Brisbane was a success to be repeted, and if so how ?

I guess it comes down to some type of evaluating whether it managed to
pull in participants that otherwise would not go to other IETF in person;
and to an extend that justifies the lack of all the participants that did not
come - but that would have come to other alternative locations) due to long and expensive travel.

I answered the post-meeting survey but did not think it had enough questions to
help figuring out answeres to these questions. Especially did i not see a survey
for those people who did not make it to Brisbane (e.g.: sent to [e-mail])
and would like to chime in to the evaluation.

Btw: I very much enjoyed Brisbane, but i was privileged in having to fly in only
from a location (SFO) that had a direct connection of <= 14 hours, whereas colleagues
from further east in the Americas and of course in Europe did report total travel
times even in excess of 30 hours. And i also managed to attach vacations to make
the travel very much worthwhile. And i do collaborate a lot with folks from east asia,
who of course also had a good presence.

That's especially why i would like to understand best how much effort the IETF puts into
deciding for this type of locations and especially how it will justify it to those for
whom it was inacceptable due to these travel issues.

Thanks a lot for any insights!
    Toerless