On 2011-08-30 22:04, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 30 aug 2011, at 9:22, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
>
>> That is a 4.5 year difference in when the exact date is announced. This
>> increase the risk that there is a clash with another meeting and people
>> cannot plan much in advance.
>
> Come on, the idea that people need to know the date of a meeting more than 1.5 years out or they won't be able to plan their attendance is ridiculous. I don't even know which country I'll be living in 1.5 years from now.
That isn't the point. It's to avoid clashes with IEEE, ITU-T, W3C and numerous
others standards bodies that have overlapping participants. There were constant
problems in the past, until we went to the current advance scheduling.
Brian
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