Re: Meeting Locations

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

> Is it reasonable for us to hope that, as things settle down over
> time, we can reasonably expect to get to the "meeting times and
> locations known 18 months to two years out" status that has been
> the target for some years?  Or, to put it differently, without
> any unreasonable expectations about how quickly it is possible
> to get back onto that basis, is it still the target and do you
> consider that target plausible?

"back" onto that basis?

As a matter of practise, there has never been any attempt to schedule venues 
18-24 months out.  Instead, there has been a reliance on finding meeting 
hosts. This has ensured that early venue selection was not possible.

(Some folks might remember that roughly 10 years ago, Marshall and I proposed 
scheme that would have chosen a standard site if no host is selected by the 
cutoff.)

As noted in the current thread, early site selection permits attendee 
budgeting.  From the IETF side, it permits serious negotiating for site terms 
and operational efficiencies when a previous site is re-used.  Minneapolis has 
been a useful demonstration of this latter point, I think.

By placing a priority on having hosts and/or on selecting venues to encourage 
local Internet development, we place meeting operational and cost benefits as 
secondary priorities.

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