John sed... > I'm not opposed, but if there were a note saying, e.g., there were 527 rooms for > Thursday night and they're all sold out now, how would anyone's behavior be any > different? Or if it said there were 94 rooms reserved for staff and committee > members? It wouldn't help us get rooms for IETF-101, but it would help with IAOC oversight (who oversees the overseers?) to know how many rooms were in the block. For example, knowing that only 75 rooms were blocked out and that 74 of them are reserved for staff and I* might raise questions. This where some transparency would help. > As far as I can tell, the only place in the world where we could find adequate > conference space with enough rooms for everyone in the adjacent hotel(s) is Las > Vegas, and there's other reasons not to meet there. Well, the Metropole has 1059 rooms, and we know that lots of people prefer to stay in cheaper hotels. I think the beef here is that we should not have to engage in an escalated booking frenzy to stand a chance of getting a room in the venue hotel. Might as well run a lottery or raise the venue room rates (there's two fund-raising ideas straight off). BTW, just to curtail the discussion, we expect that everyone who says "but the overflow hotels are really close by" has booked for an overflow hotel and not the Metropole :-) Thanks, Adrian