Paul Vixie <> supposedly scribbled: >> It's a start at balancing out all the Minneapolis-in-winter meetings >> we have had. > > the part of mrose's "little black book" that made me laugh out loud > was the description of MFLD (Many Fine Lunches and Dinners). > minneapolis has a good airport, good transport from the airport to > the venue, and a good venue. The hotel absolutely sucks, thanks, so much so that I, for one, have sworn _never_ to stay there again. > the fact that it's not a popular > vacation destination in wintertime Paul, you are a master of understatement. > probably keeps a lot of folks from > using ietf as an excuse to burn travel budget Your concern over the travel budgets of others is touching (if a little creepy). > on it just to enjoy the > MFLD. (you all know who i mean, though you each no doubt have a > different person's picture in your head right now.) Yes, I have a picture of Ronald Reagan's mythical Welfare Queen; you remember, the ones who (not voracious military spending or ridiculous tax cuts for billionaires) were single-handedly bankrupting the US 30 years ago. > > let's keep going to minneapolis for as long as they'll tolerate us, > and let's try to find summertime destinations that are equally > appalling to the MFLD community. paris, in that regard, should be > OFF the table. Don't worry, O Calvinist Guardian of Virtue: there is little pleasure to be found in Paris in August; the cafes will be shuttered, even the cab drivers will have left the city. ~gwz _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf