On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 20:11 +0000, John Levine wrote: > > http://www.ietf.org/meeting/hosting-an-ietf.html > 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. Down a ways on the referenced page, there is a link to http://www.ietf.org/meeting/hotel-logistics.html which is a basic list of venue requirements. Dale