Re: Unhosted IETF meetings

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In message <86hdj68gpr.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Rescorla writes:
>"Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> Paris is hosted (including the WLAN), so there is at least 6 months
>>> until it is needed
>>> (is Nortel providing the Vancouver WLAN?).
>>
>> OK, on a side note... a quick look back at
>> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/directory.html enties since 2000 makes
>> me think we're still pretty successful at finding hosts for IETFs
>> OUTSIDE the US, but about 50-percent successful at finding hosts
>> INSIDE the US, and especially in Minneapolis...
>
>I'm not privy to exactly how the secretariat decides on the venues,
>but I suspect that the relationship may be the reverse. I.e.,
>that we have meetings in Minneapolis when we don't get an
>offer of a host somewhere else.
>

One aspect was that the original Minneapolis deal was for several 
meetings -- it was a good deal, so they accepted it, but we had to go 
back.  The secretariat also found the hotel very good to work with, as 
I recall.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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