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Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-07 21:56:24
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:27:13PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:29:40PM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote:

I really have a hard time being sympathetic to this complaint.  If 
the purpose of the IETF is open discussion and cross-pollination, 
what does it matter where we are so long as there's comfortable 
access to the expertise needed?  Is there an unwritten requirement 
that IETFs are placed to afford us sightseeing?  To afford us access 
to restaurants?

Well, many IETF'ers get tired of eating at the same hotel restaurant,
day after day, for the whole week.  Also a common problem is that many
hotel restaurants are not well equipped to deal with a very large
number of people all showing up at the resturant at the same time (+/-
10 minutes), thus flooding the kitchen with orders and resulting in
glacial service times.  I remember one of the first times we were at
Minneapolis, and I made a mistake of eating at the hotel restaurant
for lunch, and the food not showing up at the table until something
like 5 or 10 minutes before the next working group meeting was
supposed to start.  Needless to say, that was the last time I
frequented that hotel restaurant the whole week!  Fortunately in
Minneapolis there were other restaurant options that were a close walk
away from the hotel.


        convience is one thing, medical/religious options are much more
        constrained in a "remote" location.  for those who have food
        allegies, or other dietary restrictions, this could be problematic.

-bill


                                              - Ted

[1] http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/10/08/sous-vide-revisited/
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--bill

Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).

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