Re: IETF 78 Annoucement

["Joel M. Halpern" <jmh at joelhalpern.com>]

Please, let us keep a couple of things in mind here.

Firstly, I am quite sure that a large number of factors, both formal and 
informal, are evaluated by the IAOC in selecting a venue.  While we may 
or may not want more information, asking them to give us "all" the 
information they consider is, in my opinion, a request that can not and 
should not be fulfilled.

Let us also remember that we are actually getting better visibility to 
the selection process, and a better ability to provide input.

Most importantly, given the real world constraints, venue selection is 
hard.  As a community, we tend to articulate sets of mutually 
incompatible requirements.  (usually, it is different people with 
different requirements, but sometimes....)

Yours,
Joel