Stafan, My apologies... bad example. I was, however, thinking less of the city area to country area ratio than about the "probably only one plausible city in the country to hold an IETF-sized meeting" issue. I should have been more clear about that or chosen a better example (or, more likely, both). john --On Thursday, April 07, 2016 14:35 -0300 Stefan Winter <stefan.winter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >>> Dave, how would it complicate the negotiation process to >>> simply say "we are considering the following cities for >>> future IETFs: does anybody know of an issue that they want >>> to raise with any of these?" We don't have to say when, or >>> how definite. It's hard to see how this would cause >>> problems--can you explain? >> Exactly. Singapore may be a special case because it is a >> "city=country" one but, other than Luxembourg, there are >> relatively few others of those that are likely candidates for >> discussion. > > Not that it adds particularly much to the discussion at hand, > but would you please note that the country of Luxembourg has > 2,586.4 km^2 / 998 sq mi surface, while the city of Luxembourg > is just one out of multiple cities in the country. > > If you are looking for area surface matches between a country > and its (only) city, you may rather want to look in the > general direction of the country Monacco and its city Monte > Carlo (different name, same thing - how's that for a special > case!). > > (Now waiting for someone from Monacco to correct me about my > ignorance of throwing both into one bowl)