Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

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At 6:12 PM -0400 8/29/10, John C Klensin wrote:

 While our weighting factors are different, I think it is the
 obligation of the Secretariat and the IAOC's meetings committee
 to find locations at which the people who contribute
 significantly can have an efficient and productive meeting, with
 a minimum of distractions from logistical, health, and safety
 problems.  While one can take the position that people who don't
 find a meeting site appropriate should just not come, doing that
 changes the profile of people who are invited to participate in
 the IETF from "interested in the improvement of the Internet and
 (we hope) technically competent and willing to do work" to
 include "have sufficient free time to spend extra time traveling
 relative to other cities in the same region, have no health
 problems that make one location more attractive than another,
 aren't women traveling alone or those whose dress is
 distinctive, don't have problems with air of marginal quality or
 special food requirements, etc."

It really comes down to which bias to apply in site selection: towards those who want to be a tourist, or those who want to do work.

 I don't expect the Secretariat/ IOAC to cater to everyone's
 slightest whim and I actually do expect those with special needs
 to be willing to exert some extra effort, but I also expect that
 the Secretariat/IAOC efforts will extend to making attendance
 plausible for as broad a range of active participants as
 possible.

I would have thought this to be obvious, but from the comments in Maastricht and here, it's not.

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Randall Gellens
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