FYI — venue-selection@xxxxxxxx is publicly archived, at least until it
becomes clear why it shouldn’t be :^) .
It is, however, not a discussion list: it’s intended to be a
recipient of information from people who wish to provide input.
Luckily, if you do want to discuss, there is a discussion list! Started
for the BoF of the same name, general discussions around the
requirements for meeting venues are being undertaken at
mtgvenue@xxxxxxxx — see
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mtgvenue .
Leslie.
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On 18 Apr 2016, at 12:15, The IAOC wrote:
All,
The IAOC and its meetings committee are continuing to review the
situation with respect to meeting in Singapore. As I noted about a
week ago [1], we are reviewing our meeting planning procedures to
ensure that we have input at appropriate points to ensure issues are
identified and addressed before contracts are signed and announcements
made. This will mean more transparency, including sharing the list of
cities under consideration when we have a workable way to handle and
hear the feedback. We will make concrete progress on that at our
retreat in a few weeks time.
In the meantime, we do have active site discussions and negotiations
ready to close for meetings that are coming up. In addition to
reaching out to groups or agencies that have specific knowledge about
travel for diverse groups including religious, ethnical and LGBTQ
people, we are reaching out to the IETF community as a whole with this
note.
In order to make sure we haven’t overlooked something else that
should have been properly considered for sites under consideration, as
well as to gather some running code on how a feedback process might
work, we would like to hear from anyone who is aware of reasons we
could not have a successful meeting in any of the following cities, or
of any limits to attendee accessibility or inclusiveness that should
be considered:
Paris
Montreal
Copenhagen
Please send your input to venue-selection@xxxxxxxx. It will help the
review process if the Subject line had the name of the city first,
Subject: <city>.
In order not miss the contract opportunities, city-specific input
would be most helpful if received by the end of May 2, 2016.
Other input on the process will be best received in e-mail at
venue-selection@xxxxxxxx with the Subject line: Process. As we
iterate the process we will continue to seek input to fashion a
meeting planning process that works.
Leslie,
for the IAOC.
[1]
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/hKwBYOwPkE6VTA4mxxf00NTLLF0
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