On 8/11/2014 3:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
All the same,
from my own experience some years ago, the IAOC has to balance a
large number of factors in choosing locations, and the choice is
always over-constrained.
The dominant constraint is finding hosts to sponsor the event.
Switching to choosing a venue before finding a host has been superbly
helpful, but sites are still chosen in terms of likely candidates for
sponsorship.
Periodically, another dominant constraint seems to be efforts at
marketing the IETF to different parts of the world.
Given the choices being made for venues now and the likely future,
points raised in:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria
?
are not dominating the selection process.
Take a look at the recent survey results:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/recentattendees/current/msg00024.html
Then make some guesses about where we are likely to go in the near future...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net