The obvious answer is to pick a location that is equi-distant or equally
expensive for most people, and does not meet too often in one contintent.
There is such a place: Hawaii. It is fairly mid-point between APAC and the
Americas, and just slightly farther from Europe (well, a lot farther if you
can't fly direct, but that's just due to airline routes, not
distance-between-two-points).
Furthermore, it's not in any continent, and thus equal for all in that regard.
And it's a great tourist destination, and has plenty of meeting facilities,
restaurants, Internet bandwidth, and no trains. So this seems to address
everyone's concerns.
Therefore, I propose we meet in Hawaii (and Kauai in particular) from now on.
We can even rotate islands if people get bored.
Problem solved.
-hadriel
On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote:
If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize in
such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual that
regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by
putting fairly large error bars on the costs but isn't the X-Y-Z distribution
where X= approx Y= approx Z the closest optimum? (or finding one place that
sucks equally for everybody)
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