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 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf