This has occurred to me before. Flu to one location and pick up a cruise ship
for the meeting. Then travel across an ocean during the meeting week.
Then st least one region has a much shorter trip home and at least one region
has a shorter trip to the meeting.
No distractions taking people away from the discussions either.
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Michal Krsek
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 03:01
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Tropical/resort meetings in germany
To finish this nice off topic discussion (at least for a while) ...
France has one or two amphibious assault ships, that look for new owner.
Those ships are ideal for hosting IETF. Big enough, neutral, having
nicely divided rooms in different sizes and able to accept helicopters
and STOVL aircraft so anyone can avoid immigration issues. Plus those
ships can serve for IETF meetings as well as for interim meetings and
could be used also for hosting ICANN/IANA (to preserve their neutral
status) as well as primary nameservers.
So we need to stop talking (e-mailing) and start fundraising - both
ships cost about 3bn EUR. We may ask France for their support of The
Internet community (means discount, discount).
With kind regards
Michal
.....and incredibly expensive once you are there!
-----Original Message-----
From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Christopher
Morrow
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:46 AM
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer
Cc: Michael Richardson; ietf
Subject: Re: Tropical/resort meetings in germany
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer(_at_)nic(_dot_)fr> wrote:
Why not in Russia instead? Judging by the average size of the IETFer,
we could use some physical training at the airport
<http://lifenews.ru/news/145798>
this looks like good fun... if we're going to snowy places for exercise, we
could just go to iceland...it's "central" enough, right?
:)