>>>>> "Lou" == Lou Berger <lberger@xxxxxxxx> writes: Lou> Ole, In the (somewhat far) past, my memory was that the IETF Lou> rate was *less* then the normal available rate. This trend to Lou> higher rates is something I only remember seeing over the last Lou> 5 or so years. Perhaps my memory is just flawed, as I haven't Lou> done the work to verify this, but I don't think so. Yes, I agree. It seems that it has occured since we started booking the events many years in advance. When we booked at the last minute, and didn't know even where the meeting was going to be more than two IETFs in advance, the room rates were better. Lou> I personally think the issues to focus on/fix are the lack of Lou> transparency and the current approach of distributing meeting Lou> costs to the hotel rate. It's more than that, but until we have this fixed, we can't know how much more. -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> then sign the petition. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf