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Re: Financial State of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-20 12:20:14

...which is why we've been meeting several times at a cetain Hilton in the
state of Minnesota.

I am sure the professional meeting planners who have been doing this job
for many, many years, are more than capable of negotiating discounts with
major hotel chains all over the world.

There are still cities in the world, for example Kuala Lumpur, that are
relatively "easy" to get to and offer very good value for money in terms
of hotel prices, food and so on. Additionally, some of us have experiences
running Internet conferences in these places.

But Foretec is more than capable of finding such locations, that's why
we hired them :-)

Ole


Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
Tel: +1 408-527-8972   GSM: +1 415-370-4628
E-mail: ole(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com  URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj



On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Michael Speer wrote:

Tim,

Ah, I think you missed my point about this.  If you can gaurantee a
hotel or a set of hotels in a given location somekind of volume the
pricing for the event goes down.  It allows for pricing based on average
attendance of all three meetings.

Michael