The obvious answer is to pick a location that is equi-distant or equally expensive for most people, and does not meet too often in one contintent. There is such a place: Hawaii. It is fairly mid-point between APAC and the Americas, and just slightly farther from Europe (well, a lot farther if you can't fly direct, but that's just due to airline routes, not distance-between-two-points). Furthermore, it's not in any continent, and thus equal for all in that regard. And it's a great tourist destination, and has plenty of meeting facilities, restaurants, Internet bandwidth, and no trains. So this seems to address everyone's concerns. Therefore, I propose we meet in Hawaii (and Kauai in particular) from now on. We can even rotate islands if people get bored. Problem solved. -hadriel On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: > > If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by putting fairly large error bars on the costs but isn't the X-Y-Z distribution where X= approx Y= approx Z the closest optimum? (or finding one place that sucks equally for everybody) > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf