Re: IETF 78 Annoucement

[Ole Jacobsen <ole at cisco.com>]

Iljitsch,

As I said, a given conference facility (which *could* be in a hotel, 
but you have precious few that size in NL) has to have:

* Enough meeting roomS (that's S as in plural, rooms, we do paralell 
  sessions at the IETF). And a large one for the plenary of course.

* Enough hotel rooms around/nearby at acceptable rates

* Infrastructure that lends itself to building the IETF network.

* Cost of meeting room rental and F&B within an acceptable range 
  (There is a wide range here and in these economic times, this is a 
  real issue).

* Be available/rentable for the dates in question.

Given those constraints, we ended up in Maastricht. 

Of all the people who have to travel to this meeting, I would not have 
imagined that you would be the one to complain. The Netherlands is not
a large country and it's not far from a lot of places in continental
Europe.

Ole

Ole J. Jacobsen
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