Re: [Mtgvenue] Was Brisbane a success to be repeated ?

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > 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 ?

LLC+IESG.

    > 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.

I travelled for 38 hours.
That included some dumb layovers in Toronto and a really long in Vancouver,
probably as a result of the Dreamliner incident that Air NZ had two weeks
ago.
The flight from Toronto to Vancouver was actually the least pleasant of the
three.

    > 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.

Endless discussion.

I think that the right people to ask are the asians.
Was the trip from Tokyo or Nanjing or India significant more pleasant for you
than when we for instance, meet in Prague or Philadelpha/Montreal?

Clearly, it is unpleasant for Europeans and east-coastians to get to
Australia (or Bangkok).  But, it's also unpleasant for Australians to get to
Montreal.

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