[Venue-selection] Cairns

[Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>]

I was only there for one night 20 years ago, so ... take all this with a grain of "I don't know what I'm talking about" but there are two reasons it's less suitable than the other two choices given in Australia.

1) it's much smaller and kind of a party town, so it's going to have fewer services in general than a bigger city (this is both pros and cons - small town mean everything is closer and there's less other stuff going on).

Cairns population, about 170,000
Brisbane about 2.5 million
Melbourne about 5 million

2) it has many fewer flight connections than either Melbourne or Brisbane, in particular there's nothing direct from the USA so people would be coming via Auckland, Brisbane, Singapore or Tokyo - and with fewer options even from there.  Both Brisbane and Melbourne are very well connected (at least for Australia)

Cheers,

Bron.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021, at 14:07, IETF Executive Director wrote:
> The IETF Administration LLC is seeking community input on the cities of Brisbane, Cairns and Melbourne, which it is considering as future meeting venues.  All of these cities are in Australia, which the community has previously agreed to being considered for an exploratory meeting [1].  
> 
> In line with our new process, previously consulted on in depth [2], we present assessment reports and preliminary recommendations for each city:
> 
> Brisbane, recommended as Suitable, report at [3]
> Cairns, recommended as Suitable, report at [4]
> Melbourne, recommended as Suitable, report at [5]
> 
> Community input is now sought on these assessment reports and recommendations.  To provide input, please email [e-mail] <mailto:venue-selection%40ietf.org> with the name of the city in the subject line.  This is a publicly visible one-way e-mail address: You can read the input [6], but you cannot subscribe to it.  Additionally, all feedback is collated and published on a public Trello board [7].
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> This call for input closes on 15 June 2021.
> 
> Finally, details of the new selection process [8] and completed and outstanding location assessments [9] are on our website.
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> [1]  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/oo7XcWFUWSXjALeRCDiXBXG7cSA/
> [2]  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/XGGhKf57W3h8P5ZMYLbd_QxBjpk/
> [3]  https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Brisbane-VenueAssessmentReport-2021-06-01.pdf
> [4]  https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Cairns-VenueAssessmentReport-2021-06-01.pdf
> [5]  https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Melbourne-VenueAssessmentReport-2021-06-01.pdf
> [6]  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/venue-selection
> [7]  https://trello.com/b/whq8I098/venue-selection-input
> [8]  https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/ 
> [9]  https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/meeting-location-assessment/
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