Dave, On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:57:08AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: > > This makes it inconvenient not only for getting to restaurants but > also for attendees wanting to stay at cheaper hotels. There is a wide selection of cheaper hotels available around the meeting hotel that are all walking distance. Restaurants at walking distance are indeed problematic. However, the hotel has quite a few choices of it's own and there are quite a few very good restaurants a short cab ride away. We realize that this is not ideal. Site selection is a compromise. To give a bit of background: unfortunately, the hotel selection process started very late which limited the amount of available venues such that we didn't had the luxury to select a hotel that could satisfy all criteria as much as we would have liked. We as Nokia offered to host the meeting when we heard at a fairly late stage that IETF was still in need for a host and that Dallas was being considered by the secretariat (Our US headquarters are in Dallas). My personal hope is that the selection process will happen more in advance future now that we have Ray in place as our IAD. > Frequently it even makes it difficult to just walk around. As everything in Dallas, this hotel is quite large. Just a walk around the premises will be quite a bit. David Kessens --- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf