On 29/08/2011 16:51, Keith Moore wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> Obviously the date needs to be fixed at some point, but does it really have to >> be six years in advance? ( http://www.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.html ) > > I've been wondering the same thing. Would it be reasonable to specify ballpark > dates (say +/- 1 week) six years out as long as the actual dates were nailed > down say three years out? Discussions with the hotel starts only 2 years out, so fixing dates 3 years out won't change a thing. There is also the clash list, which limits the weeks when we can have a meeting. If we want more flexibility in order to find better hotel deals, then we have to do something like: dates are fixed approximately 1.5 years out, and we do not mind having meetings back-to-back with other organizations on the clash list. That means that some folks will have to travel around the globe between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning in order to make it from one meeting to another. Henk -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk(at)uijterwaal.nl http://www.uijterwaal.nl Phone: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There appears to have been a collective retreat from reality that day. (John Glanfield, on an engineering project) _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf