On 16 November 2016 at 14:26, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> >> IETF Administrative Director <iad@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The IAOC is pleased to announce London as the site for IETF 101 from >> > 18 - 23 March 2018. >> >> > This will be the IETF's third meeting in London. The IETF met in >> > London for IETF 51 in 2001, hosted by BTexact Technologies and had >> > 2,226 attendees; and then again at IETF 89, hosted by ICANN, and had >> > 1,400 attendees. >> >> And, I think, it's in the same Hilton we have been in before? >> The Hilton Metropole.... at least, we'll know where all the rooms are >> hidden. > > > I am not sure that there is another hotel in London that would suit. The > name by the way comes from the former Hotel Metropole which used to occupy > the same site which had a most interesting history. > > Since the elders of the Internet will be meeting in London again, perhaps I > should bring 'The Internet'. My first cousin once removed is the speaker of > the House of Lords, so I could ask him if I could just pop up to Big Ben and > fetch it for the plenary. > > Would work better if we could get permission from the Beeb to show this > while folk are waiting for the plenary. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg Channel 4, actually. Shouldn't be hard to arrange. Dave.