On 2012-01-04 10:03, John C Klensin wrote: > > --On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 15:54 -0500 Eric Burger > <ebur...@standardstrack.com> wrote: > >> Actually (shhhh), the IETF *does* get credit for rooms sold. >> We reconcile the attendee list with hotel guests. Go for it. > > In a way, that is really too bad. If people find the > cancellation or other) policies problematic enough to actually > change their behavior (as distinct from whining), it would be > good for the IAOC to get that message in a way that was clear > and couldn't be avoided. If you don't incur a penalty for > failure to fill a block and/or can't really tell "paid a higher > rate to get a better policy" from "reserved after the block was > full or past the deadline", then there are few, if any, > incentives for telling a hotel that these sort of policies won't > do.
There's a third case, "paid a lower rate than the conference rate" (usually due to a smart corporate travel agent). I've never understood why conferences don't get a corporate-equivalent rate. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
