Re: Spring 2003 IETF - Why San Francisco?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

History of this particular meeting, as I was told by the secretariat:

- We tried to hold it in Minneapolis as per tradition :-)
- The dates available for Minneapolis conflicted with another conference
- The search for sites came up with two alternatives: Boston and San 
Francisco.
- The facilities in San Francisco were quite a bit better than those in 
Boston
- The secretariat proposed San Francisco, and I approved that.

If we get twice as many people as in Atlanta, crowding may be a problem. 
But twice as many people is a LARGE increase.

                     Harald


--On 16. november 2002 21:34 -0800 Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live.com> 
wrote:

> http://www.ietf.org/meetings/0mtg-sites.txt
>
> San Francisco is very convenient for many people (including me) - but
> perhaps it's just *too* convenient.  Every other IETF meeting held in the
> Bay Area in recent years has been a zoo.
>
> I thought there was consensus to try not to hold IETF meetings in the Bay
> Area?
>
> 	Ross.
>
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