Richard, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:41:07PM -0500, Richard Shockey wrote: > My comment said "or" as in one or the other, if you had re read the comment > properly before going snarky. I don't dispute Dublin airport is a useful > transportation hub. I want to know why this particular venue was selected > and what was the criterion used to make the evaluation. That is a simple > question given the legitimate questions many of us are asking. By mentioning 'major hub' it appeared as if you were concerned about that as well while in fact this location is an excellant choice from that perspective: not only is it easy to get to, but it is also comparatively cheap for many IETF participants. > IMHO it was a bad selection and I think many of us want to make sure it does > NOT happen again. that really remains to be seen: as many people have mentioned before, there might actually be some reasonible local food options. In addition, with a little planning, it should be possible for many of us to go once or twice to Dublin itself or perhaps stay a day extra. I admit, not 100% ideal but meetings always have their tradeoffs. In this case, I certainly see the potential for problems, but on the other hand, if the connectivity is particularly good, the hotel rooms a bit better than average and the local restaurant situation a tiny bit better than what many people expect, one can hardly claim that this meeting is going to be a disaster. Let's first go there before we make a judgement that this was a terrible mistake, the data so far simply doesn't justify that (yet ;-)). David Kessens PS anyways, maybe the local/Dublin restaurant scene is really not what we should be looking for in Ireland: should we not care more about the local brews ? --- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf