Re: Meeting Venue Preference Survey

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At 10:17 AM -0700 8/28/10, Dave CROCKER wrote:

 From the survey:

 2. Meeting Preferences

 1. It is important to me to have the meeting venue be easy to get to:
 It is important to me to have the meeting venue be easy to get to:
  > Very unimportant
 Slides

What does "slides" mean? I'm guessing it's an extraneous entry, since it throws off the apparent model of a balanced 5-choice set of responses.

I took it to mean "depends on other factors" but wasn't at all sure. The problem is that most of the questions had no clear answer in isolation, but depended on other factors.


 2. Do you prefer a meeting in a gateway city,

I believe the underlying problem with this question, as demonstrated by the postings about it so far, is the lack of consistent criteria for defining "gateway" and "secondary".

I'll offer the view that a "gateway" city is a principle hub of international air travel, while a "secondary" city should have at least some international air access. I think that's a useful distinction, but it means that more than one of the examples of secondary, in the survey, really would be classed as tertiary or worse, and there's a reasonable chance that Vancouver would count as primary.

From an air travel point of view, Vancouver is a gateway. There are non-stop flights on multiple major carriers within multiple alliances to multiple cities on multiple continents. It's commonly used as a transfer point. However, I'm not aware of any major carrier that uses it as a primary hub (e.g., LAX, DFW, ORD, JFK, LHR, AMS, HKG), so if this is the criteria then it doesn't qualify.


 8. Would you attend if we held the IETF in Africa?
 9. Would you attend if we held the IETF in South or Central America?

Like the question on an earlier survey about Quebec City, I think it requires more information and more individual research to have a good answer. Which venue in which city? How hard is it to get to the city and venue? Could I get an airfare that my company would approve? Would we be in a central facility with a lot nearby, or would we be scattered around? (I would personally want to know what the rules are for smoking, but I understand only a few other participants would care.)

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