My comment said "or" as in one or the other, if you had re read the comment properly before going snarky. I don't dispute Dublin airport is a useful transportation hub. I want to know why this particular venue was selected and what was the criterion used to make the evaluation. That is a simple question given the legitimate questions many of us are asking.
IMHO it was a bad selection and I think many of us want to make sure it does NOT happen again. That said I love Ireland .. delighted to go there ..but. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Kessens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:21 PM > To: Richard Shockey > Cc: 'IAB'; 'IETF Discussion'; 'IAOC' > Subject: Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin! > > > Richard, > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:48:15PM -0500, Richard Shockey wrote: > > > > Sites that are substantially distant from city centers or major > > transportation hubs IMHO don't work for the IETF community > irrespective of > > whether they are in North America, Asia or ECMA. > > While I don't particularly like this location, I don't see how you can > imply that it is hard to get to Dublin airport and from there to the > meeting site. Aer Lingus has reasonably priced (for summer time) > direct flights from most large US cities. Most european cities are > served by Aer Lingus and by Ryan Air which is quite possible the > cheapest airline on earth. > > David Kessens > --- _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf