>> For example once I know the criteria I could check around in Poland to >> see if there is any place which would satisfy the future IETF venue. > > http://www.ietf.org/meeting/hosting-an-ietf.html That's about how to be a meeting host, and it's mostly about terminal rooms and social events. Is there a list anywhere of minimum requirements without which it's not even worth looking at a venue? I'd expect that if a place doesn't have (as some examples) a meeting room big enough for a plenary, a set of sufficently large meeting rooms for sessions, a place for a terminal room, a place to have coffee and snacks, and the ability to provision Internet access in meeting rooms and guest rooms, forget it. Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly PS: Meter-deep water running in the streets is presumably optional.