Re: Meetings in other regions

[Marshall Eubanks <tme at multicasttech.com>]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> Hello;
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:21 AM, <Pasi.Eronen at nokia.com>  
> <Pasi.Eronen at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> > John C Klensin wrote:
> >
> > > It also means such things as:
> > >
> > >     * picking places within those countries or regions that have
> > >     good airports with easy (and multiple) international
> > >     connections.  Even San Diego is a little marginal in that
> > >     regard.  Based on experience in the last year or so, I'd
> > >     suggest that Cape Town and Marrakech (suggested in another
> > >     posting) should be utterly disqualified (although J-berg and
> > >     Casablanca are more plausible on this dimension).
> >
> > Some data about San Diego: Today, the flight information page on San
> > Diego "International" Airport web site shows a couple of flights
> > to/from Mexico and a couple to/from Canada -- all the others are
> > within US.
> >
> > When meeting in North America, I would strongly prefer cities that
> > have several direct flight connections from both Europe and Asia.
> > Of the recent IETF meeting places, San Diego is the only one that
> > clearly fails this criteria... so why are we going there again?
>
> Even direct flights within the US can be hard to find.
>
> Depending on where you are coming from, and when you purchase your  
> tickets,
> you may find it faster / cheaper / better
> to fly to LAX or Long Beach and drive down to San Diego. (LAX <->  
> San Diego is ~ 200 km, and LAX
> is basically on the San Diego Freeway.) I did this for the one San  
> Diego IETF.

s/the one San Diego IETF/the one San Diego IETF I attended/

Sorry for the typo
Marshall

> If you do that, be aware that there is a permanent immigration  
> checkpoint on the
> San Diego freeway Northbound, which can cause backups returning.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
> > Best regards,
> > Pasi
> >
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