You're not going to find cool temperatures again in July or August
unless you go as far south as Argentina or New Zealand.
Not only is there life north of the 60th parallel (N), there are
even hotels and restaurants and airports. Anchorage is probably
large enough for an IETF meeting, although trying to hold a meeting
there during tourist season would almost certainly be a mistake.
But still.
I believe it, but remember that the issue was to minimize daylight fasting
during the North American summer.
Reykjavik is big enough, too, and has the advantage of being roughly
equally inconvenient to get to from North America and Europe. We
could have the social event at the Blue Lagoon.
R's,
John