I also like Minneapolis, for what it's worth. Cheers, Andy
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Henk Uijterwaal <h...@uijterwaal.nl> wrote: > On 26/08/2011 16:48, Mary Barnes wrote: > >> [MB] I've not seen a single person advocate a 0:3:0 schedule and it's only >> less >> cheaper for all participants (not just US) because the hotel rates are >> extremely >> reasonable (<$150 as I recall). It is definitely less expensive for the >> vast >> majority of participants than NA cities like Quebec City and San Francisco >> that >> travel by air. BUT, I think you are missing what we are saying overall - >> the >> major reasons some of us prefer Minneapolis is because it meets what some of >> us >> have been saying over and over as far a key factors for meetings: >> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg68656.html >> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg68727.html > > I like Minneapolis as meeting location too, assuming that the visa troubles we > had there last time are solved, and I'd be happy to make it the default > location > for US meetings. > > However, we have said that we want to meet all over the planet. That means > that > we have to go elsewhere somewhere, even if there is a good and cheaper > meeting location available elsewhere, but in the wrong region. The same goes > for the meeting weeks, if a good hotel option isn't available in a meeting > week > but is available a week or so earlier/later, then under the present rules, > it has to be discarded. > > Henk > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk(at)uijterwaal.nl > http://www.uijterwaal.nl > Phone: +31.6.55861746 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > There appears to have been a collective retreat from reality that day. > (John Glanfield, on an engineering project) > _______________________________________________ > 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
