[Venue-selection] Beijing, Shenzhen

["Border, John" <[e-mail]>]

With other option available which meet both of the mandatory criteria, I would remove Beijing and Shenzhen (at least for the time being).  In any case, I have problems traveling to China.

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Subject: Call for input: Venue assessment reports for Beijing, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur and Shenzhen

**EXTERNAL EMAIL** 

The IETF Administration LLC is seeking community input on the cities of Beijing China; Istanbul,Turkiye; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Shenzhen, China, which it is considering as future meeting venues. All of these cities are being considered for IETF 125 , March 14-20, 2026.  Other cities may also be considered for that meeting.

In line with our venue selection process we present assessment reports and preliminary recommendations for each city:

	Beijing, no recommendation, report at [1]
	Istanbul, not recommended as suitable, report at [2]
	Kuala Lumpur, recommended as suitable, report at [3]
	Shenzhen, no recommendation, report at [4]

Community input is now sought on these assessment reports and preliminary recommendations. To provide input, please email [e-mail] 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 [5], but you cannot subscribe to it. Additionally, all feedback is collated and published on a public Trello board [6].

This call for input closes on 16 June 2023.

Finally, details of the selection process [7] and completed and outstanding location assessments [8] are on our website.

[1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Beijing-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV7SrA6ta$ 
[2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Istanbul-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWVxq37-Sq$ 
[3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-KualaLumpur-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV7Kad9IP$ 
[4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-Shenzhen-VenueAssessmentReport-2023-05-22.pdf__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV2pTh8C2$ 
[5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/venue-selection__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV4ocGoWw$ 
[6] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://trello.com/b/whq8I098/venue-selection-input__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV4JU3Ywp$ 
[7] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV39lkg5y$  
[8] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/planning/meeting-location-assessment/__;!!Emaut56SYw!zKHMTXNrjHHKcbzC9MyVXpiV6cgApfxx8eWtTB5DX4PzOpVE_kHqeDCCci13nx9a5UNqQ-7E3mYTf2IWV2_XKT4b$ 

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