Dave, Not wishing to speak for Ray, let me give some general observations: 1. IETF meetings require BOTH a suitable venue (meeting rooms) AND a host organization. 2. The host organization have a large say in location (city) selection, for a number of reasons. We are going to Philadelphia because that is where the HQ of our host is located, for example. 3. While "isolated" venues may be "problematic", there is always a tradeoff between a suitable venue (again meeting rooms) and its distance to nearby hotels and other facilities. In the case of Dublin, it is anticipated that most attendees will stay in the main hotel. Having only been party to some of the discussions around this particular venue I can only say that CityWest was considered to be by far the best alternative --- in Dublin. Meeting venue selection is a bit like engineering itself: You need to make tradeoffs between different requirements. Gold is an excellent conductor, but you won't find a lot of gold power distribution systems for reasons I hope are obvious. Alumi(ni)num seems to be the material of choice at least for the high-power stuff. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Dave Crocker wrote: > Ray Pelletier wrote: > > The venue will be the beautiful Citywest Hotel, "Ireland’s premier > > Conference, Leisure & Golf Resort and one of Europe’s most popular > > International Conference destinations. The four star Citywest Hotel is > > only 20km from Dublin airport and 15km from Dublin City Centre." > > > Ray, > > Every time the IETF has been held in an isolated venue, the experience has been > problematic. > > The descriptions of the venue make clear that, once again, the IETF is meeting > in a ghetto. Periodic bus service doesn't counteract that. > > Can you discuss the priorities that led to choosing an isolated venue again? > > d/ > > > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >
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