I can think of several reasons to move meetings around: Reasons that seem obvious to me: - To spread the pain and cost of participation among the many active participants who contribute in a major way to our work (but who come from multiple different continents). - To increase the potential number of sponsors, since potential sponsors will frequently want to sponsor a meeting which is in a part of the world where they have a major corporate interest (such as a headquarters). Reasons that are probably also good, but which we might debate: - For regular attendees, to avoid the boredom of always going to the same place and/or instill a bit of interest - To encourage locals to drop by and see what we are doing at least once, for a wide variety of localities. Ross -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave CROCKER Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:33 PM Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Varying meeting venue -- why? On 8/11/2010 9:00 AM, Scott Brim wrote: > I also believe that the goal of moving the meeting around is to minimize > the cost of getting our work done, Hmmm. I'm going to ask some very silly, very basic questions in the hope that a clear consensus statement emerges from it: What is the reason we move the meetings around? Why do we not simply choose a single venue and have all our meetings there? If there is benefit in meeting in 'new' locations rather than a fixed set of one or more places, what is that benefit? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf