On Thursday, November 27, 2014, Andrew Allen <aallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This has occurred to me before. Flu to one location and pick up a cruise ship for the meeting. Then travel across an ocean during the meeting week.
Yeah. This has kinda been discussed.
Then st least one region has a much shorter trip home and at least one region has a shorter trip to the meeting
Unfortunately this ends up more expensive for most. Open jaw flights, etc.
No distractions taking people away from the discussions either.
Yup, but there are already enough issues with room temperatures - toss in "the sea is too bumpy, we need to go faster / slower / North / deeper, etc" and the mailing lists will explode. Connectivity is also poor / expensive, both on ship and to shore. Some folk also leave early, and helicopters are wicked pricey.
What may be feasible would be to host in a ship that remains in port, tied to the dock. Connectivity, travel, etc all get better, and some liners have issues filling all year round...
W
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To finish this nice off topic discussion (at least for a while) ...
France has one or two amphibious assault ships, that look for new owner.
Those ships are ideal for hosting IETF. Big enough, neutral, having
nicely divided rooms in different sizes and able to accept helicopters
and STOVL aircraft so anyone can avoid immigration issues. Plus those
ships can serve for IETF meetings as well as for interim meetings and
could be used also for hosting ICANN/IANA (to preserve their neutral
status) as well as primary nameservers.
So we need to stop talking (e-mailing) and start fundraising - both
ships cost about 3bn EUR. We may ask France for their support of The
Internet community (means discount, discount).
With kind regards
Michal
> .....and incredibly expensive once you are there!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:46 AM
> To: Stephane Bortzmeyer
> Cc: Michael Richardson; ietf
> Subject: Re: Tropical/resort meetings in germany
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Why not in Russia instead? Judging by the average size of the IETFer,
>> we could use some physical training at the airport
>> <http://lifenews.ru/news/145798>
> this looks like good fun... if we're going to snowy places for exercise, we could just go to iceland...it's "central" enough, right?
> :)
>
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I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants.
---maf