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Re: IETF 78 Annoucement

2009-05-25 17:04:43
At 02:15 PM 5/25/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
Right, well the Internet has improved availability of this info,
besides you would expect a local host to provide the most crucial
bits


Mostly they do and it's - "Get off the plane, grab your luggage and take a taxi 
or bus to the hotel" or occasionally "Get off the plane, go down a level from 
baggage claim and grab the X train which runs every 15-30 minutes to the Y stop 
and then walk/take a taxi to the hotel".

Here we seem to have  (and I'm paraphrasing you and others) "there are at least 
3 international airports that might make sense to come in to.  For each of them 
you will have to take a train and make at least one train change en route.  For 
some routes and airports it could be as high as three changes. Trains are on 
time 80% of the time so you may or may not make the connections and may or may 
not have to wait for up to X minutes at each connection point. If you need to 
arrive or leave intercontinentallly, because of the possible connection issues, 
we recommend you travel by train to a hotel near the airport the day before 
your flight and/or arrive a day early and rest at the airport hotel before 
braving the train system."

And so on.   

As Patrik points out - train travel is qualitatively different than plane 
travel for a number of reasons.  Familiarity with the specific train system is 
generally more critical than familiarity with a specific airline in determining 
successful and comfortable travel.  I have no doubt we'll be getting all sorts 
of information on how to get there from the hosts, but even they can't list all 
the possibilities.

I'm not saying we can't figure out how to get there - just that the process for 
doing so for this meeting seems overly complicated, even for the process-bound 
group we've become.

With respect to your suggestion of adding hotels as stopping points - many 
companies won't permit/reimburse such stops unless transportation schedules 
mandate them.  Again, I'll do it if I have to, but if I'm not on vacation, 
travel is all about getting there and back in the least stressful and most 
timely, effective, productive and risk-averse manner. 

Later, Mike




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