> I ran into another participant on the bus one day who told me he used > the bus to go and get lunch every day rather than hanging around the > MECC. He had plenty of time, he said, in the 1.5 hours. This was, > alas, on Thursday or Friday, so I didn't try it myself. Given the > time it took me to get to my hotel, and the five or six restaurants I > spied immediately around it, I suspect it would have worked. > > I'm finding the complaints about the remoteness of the venue in > Maastricht to be contrary to my own experience, but I didn't arrive > late due to a delayed flight and I didn't have to get back to the MECC > area in the evening. It is beginning to sound like the real fault with the Maastricht venue was that people were not fully briefed on how to handle it. As Dave Crocker said, when meetings are held repeatedly in one location, people learn what works, where to find things, etc. It becomes a familiar place. Perhaps some additional effort needs to be made to provide guidance to attendees so that, for instance, everyone attending a Maastricht event knows that there is a free bus pass, it is 5 minutes to a choice of restaurants, someone has tested it during the lunch break hours and it is an easy round trip without being late, and so on. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf