Re: [Mtgvenue] New Version Notification for draft-daley-gendispatch-venue-requirements-02.txt

[Benson Muite <[e-mail]>]

> 
> I think this is a good illustration of why it's difficult to come up
> with a complete
> set of objective criteria about the suitability of a specific venue.
> Rather, I think
> the right way to proceed is by having a smaller set of screening criteria
> (as the current document does) and then asking whether a proposed new
> venue is problematic for a large enough [0] fraction of attendees, for
> whatever
> reason, without interrogating the validity of those reasons.
> 
This seems a reasonable way to give a meeting exploratory status.  New
venues may also lead to greater engagement, for example Hyderabad or
Shenzhen would likely be successful new meeting venues for growing the
number of active participants.
> With that said, I agree with John that time zone is not a good replacement
> for our existing geographic zone system. I could imagine a new criterion
> based on travel time, but I don't think time zone is a good choice for the
> reasons John indicated.

Travel time may be difficult, other than being close to a major airport.
 The aim of using time zones to split the globe is to have a more
precise and equitable criteria for distribution of meetings than North
America, Europe and Asia.
> 
> -Ekr
> 
> [0] Where "large enough" is defined as "significantly more than for the
> existing
> venues"
>