Re: Spring 2003 IETF - Why San Francisco?

[Peter Deutsch <pdeutsch at attbi.com>]

John Stracke wrote:
> 
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> > If we get twice as many people as in Atlanta, crowding may be a
> > problem. But twice as many people is a LARGE increase.
> 
> Besides which, the last IETF meeting in the Bay Area was in 1996; the
> local population of companies that will pay to send people has probably
> dropped off a bit since then.

Yahbut, the number of people who will come looking for pointers to
work is going to be *way* up. There may not be more people in the
meetings, but there may be lots more people in the corridors...
:-/


					- peterd

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    Peter Deutsch                       pdeutsch at gydig.com
    Gydig Software

      "Time will end all of my troubles, but I don't
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