--On lørdag, januar 01, 2005 18:20:02 -0800 "Glen Zorn (gwz)"
<gwz(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:
Ha Ha. You (and others) have made the point quite well that the
majority of IETFers are probably hardy enough to suffer through the
week without actually dying. So what? The real question is why we
must suffer at all....
injecting the opinionating with some facts.....
- the dates for future IETF meetings are set in advance, due to extensive
arguments by IETFers and other standards organizations that having the IETF
schedule their meetings on short notice and against other meetings is a Bad
Thing.
- when France Telecom suggested that they could sponsor one of the 2005
IETF meetings, none of the 2005 meetings had sponsors. So they (France
Telecom and Foretec) started investigating sponsoring the spring meeting.
- It turned out that at those dates, there were no suitable facilities to
be found in places where they wanted to sponsor the meeting. So they moved
on to the next meeting - August.
- After some searching, a suitable venue was available in Paris. I received
the suggestion (with some alternatives), and said that I found this venue
acceptable.
Making IETFers suffer or not because of the weather didn't factor into the
equation. Honoring previous promises on dates, getting a sponsor for a
non-US meeting, and finding a location that was likely to work for the IETF
to get work done did.
Harald
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