Re: IETF 83 Venue

Michal Krsek <michal@xxxxxxxx> · Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:39:59 +0100



    Hi Phillip,

    as a person living in Prague I have to say that if you want to have
    western style services, you need to pay western (or higher) prices.
    

    Please be sure local community spend last time some time to crawl
    around conference hotel talking to the management about "large group
    of english speaking people is comming, please have somebody
    understanding basics of english and have english menu ready".
    Without this crawling, some services shall be somehow ... ehm ...

    
    And ... Prague isn't one of cheapest cities in Europe. It is in
    middle tier of the european capitals and more expensive than some
    regions of Germany/France/UK. 

    
    It seems like Prague city council marketing has too much pink color
    :-) Anyway, we are trying to do our best to make next IETF even
    better than '68 (but, we have no responsibility on cookies - yet?).

    
                Michal

    
    No, that was Prague '68
      http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/68/plenaryw.html
      

      I think the issue there was that we were in one of the
        cheapest cities in Europe to buy food outside the hotel and the
        prices inside the hotel were much higher than for other hotels
        in European capitals for Communist era quality food.
      

        On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:51 PM, James
          M. Polk <jmpolk@xxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          
            At 03:31 PM 1/19/2011, IETF Administrative
              Director wrote:

              
                The IAOC is pleased to announce Paris as the site for
                IETF 83 from 25 - 30

                March 2012.  The IETF last met in the city in 2005 at
                IETF 63.

                
                Paris was the number one choice for a European venue in
                a venue

                preference survey conducted after IETF 78.

              
            I don't know about this... after all, the last time we had
            an IETF there is when EKR blew a gasket at the lack of
            (real) cookies during the breaks. This cannot be overlooked
            as an isolated incident, or hand-waved away.  I wouldn't
            want to be around him if this were to occur again.

            
            ;-)

            
              James
            
              
                  2012

                  IETF 83  Paris 25 - 30 March    Host:  <your name
                  here>

                
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