On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/3/14 12:40 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> is it reasonable to hand-hold professional travelers in their path to >> 'get a hotel near where the conference is' ? > > I would not assume that everybody who participates in an IETF meeting > is a "professional traveler" or even has access to the same set of > tools you do. We have participants from heavily-firewalled countries, the tools chosen ought to be generally available (aside from some fairly restrictive localities) > developing countries, etc. as well as participants with varying levels > of comfort with English. Some people may, in fact, need some help > finding alternative lodging. :( you are making me cry. (I note that yahoo's search isn't working well for this sort of thing, so there's that of course) -chris