It's is certainly possible to make it to Hiroshima on a day trip from Tokyo. N1 leaves Tokyo at 0600 and arrives in Hiroshima at 0943 so you opinion is rather poorly informed.
In a business context people do it all the time. Joel's iPad On Aug 13, 2010, at 11:48, Dave CROCKER <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote: > > > On 8/13/2010 10:40 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: >> Based on a sample of 3 (Hiroshima, Anaheim and Maastricht) I am not at >> all sure your statement is factually correct. Tokyo would have been >> better than Hiroshima and Amsterdam might have been better than >> Maastricht and maybe "LA" (a big place) would have been better than >> Anaheim, but to conclude that these locations "discourage one-day >> attendance" I think is a stretch. > > > Well, since the target market isn't really specified and the criteria for > satisfying it aren't specified, what's really going on is a lot of private > models that probably don't match. > > Getting some agreement at this level would permit more substantive > consideration, so here's an attempt to specify it: > > A Day Pass is for attendees with a very narrow focus of activity in an IETF > meeting. The fee reduces the cost of their participation substantially, both > in terms of money and time. > > Alternative criteria: > > Local -- > > One kind of Day Pass user would be someone relatively local to the > meeting area. They should be able to travel to and from the meeting and > attend it all on the same day. > > Regional -- > > Another kind of Day Pass user would permit a two-day trip, with one night > at the conference venue. Travel time and cost for a regional attendee is > much higher than for a Local attendee, but still far less expensive than a > full attendee. > > In terms of Local attendees, for the 3 cited venues, only Anaheim is > reasonable, IMO. Maastrict and Hiroshima are too far away from significant > centers of IETF-related work to qualify. > > I'm not sure whether Hiroshima would qualify for a Regional attendee, but > assume it would. So would the other 3 sites. > > My comment had assumed a goal of Local attendees. Perhaps you intend > Regional? > > d/ > >> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Dave CROCKER wrote: >>> An example of the problem with the day pass experiment is our tendency to be >>> at venues that discourage one-day attendance. > > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
