[ From: Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
[ Date: 12:54 (-0800), Mar 20, 2001 ]
> This discussion seems to get rehashed in one form or
> another everytime we have a meeting it seems...
>
> due consideration when hosting the meeting in the US
> (or anywhere else) involves placing it in a location
> with major international air-routes to the pacific
> rim and europe (and the US if outside)... New
> Orleans, San Antonio, Las Vegas and my hometown
> (eugene oregon) aren't really in the running when you
> compare them to chicago, sfo, atlanta and so on...
> Flying to secondary airports on an international
> itinerary or worse leaving from a secondary airport
> and arriving at another on the other end is
> logistically complicated, and expensive, which
> substantially reduces the accessiblity of the ietf.
add to it the fact that for most parts, the domestic air services
in the US leave a lot to be desired. I travel almost every other
month to the US of A and it seems that a flight on a domestic
route taking off on time is more of an anomaly than the norm.
/amlan.
