On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > this all seems like lots and lots of faffing about something easily > solved with: "do not stay in the ietf hotel" There's at least two big reasons for many participants to stay at the conference hotels: 1. Employers often have preferred hotels for the given city that are not the conference hotel but they also often have a rule that employees can stay at a conference's chosen hotel. Staying at any other hotel may mean staying far away. 2. IETF meetings are an 8AM to midnight kind of social/work environment, with a lot of business transacted in hallways at odd times and often by accident. Having to trudge off kills a lot of opportunities for hallway meetings. Nico --