----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Pelletier" <rpelletier@xxxxxxxx> To: <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "IETF discussion list" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49 AM > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > > >> I think Vancouver would be an excellent city for a recurring North American > >> meeting. There is a reasonable convenience factor in terms of nearby > >> hotels, restuarants and food markets (there's an excellent one just a couple > >> blocks from the venue). However, based on the poll, it seemed that folks > >> preferred Quebec City, which suggests that the majority of folks don't favor > >> the idea of returning to the same city. I do like returning to the same, familiar city, at least up to about five times, after which I agree it starts to pall. But please, never Canada. The availability of flights from Europe is poor (compared to USA), travel costs are high and the visa arrangements are much worse than the USA even with, or perhaps because of, historical links. In fact, from western Europe, I see the USA as cheaper and easier to get to than say Vienna or Maastricht (look back at all those posts about which train to catch, which country to arrive in, how to pay fares etc ) Tom Petch > > One thing this suggests to me is that the people who are prone to > > taking the survey favour the idea of variety. I dismember how many > > survey responses we had, and how the responses broke down when > > categorized by number of IETF meetings attended, so I can't be sure, > > here. But I'm guessing that many of the responses came from the > > long-timers who will go wherever the meeting is, and that not so many > > came from the folks who are relatively new and are considering > > increasing their participation. > > You can check out the results and filter them in a variety of ways here: > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=t_2fbbgsnKxiEZQtkqJnseRhFhKYsLmoL7UYsdeK lPJNE_3d > > Ray > > > > > > Barry > > _______________________________________________ > > Ietf mailing list > > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf