Re: [rtcweb] Update of future interim meeting locations

Possible tie-breaking algorithm:

  If season==summer ==> Europe
  elsif season==winter ==> west coast
  elsif season==sorta-in-between ==> east coast

-----Original Message-----
From: rtcweb-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:rtcweb-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
Of Cullen Jennings
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:33 PM
To: Eric Rescorla
Cc: rtcweb@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Update of future interim meeting locations

On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>
wrote:
> > First of all, the chairs would are going to declare that there is WG

> > consensus for a 1:1:1 meeting rotation between west coast of north 
> > america, europe, and east coast of north america and plan to run 
> > approximately equal number of meetings in these locations.  In 
> > counting the number of past meetings in a given region, we will 
> > include all the face to face RTCWeb and WebRTC meetings as this work

> > is closely joined and a large number of the participants travel to 
> > both sets of meetings. The face to face meetings that happen at the 
> > main IETF or W3C meetings are included in this count. Collocated 
> > meetings will be counted just once as they only require one set of 
> > travel to that location.
> 
> Cullen,
> 
> Thanks for this clarification. Just to be totally sure I understand, 
> do you mean the following algorithm?
> 
>    For an interim meeting at time X, sum up all the prior meetings
>    for each of the regions. The region with the fewest prior
>    meetings is then selected for the next interim. [0]
> 
> Is this what you guys have in mind?
> 
> -Ekr
> 
> [0] For extra credit, ties need to be resolved somehow. I can suggest 
> a mechanism if you need one :)
> 

Yes - that is what I was thinking and I had not really thought much
about ties. So unless you want a maximally self serving tie breaking
algorithm of selecting the location closest to YYC, it would be great if
someone could suggest the tie breaking algorithm. 

Cullen

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