All;
Here is where things stand.
1. "Headquarters Hotel”
Our Host, WIDE, is attempting to obtain more guest rooms in the
InterContinental Yokohama Grand.
The InterContinental Yokohama Grand has 475 standard rooms, but
would only allow us to book 300 rooms on the peak nights of Monday
and Tuesday. They said they had to accommodate their existing
corporate and airline contracts.
Wednesday and Thursdays were contracted for fewer rooms, 289 and
250. We contracted for the rooms using the usual Bell Curve, which
typically reflects that some folks depart on Wednesday and more on
Thursday. This was a mistake on our part. if those rooms had been
available we should have contracted for the max we could get.
2. Overflow Hotels
We are working with the Japanese Travel Bureau to open the JTB
reservation system for the 4 contracted Overflow Hotels. Together
these hotels have 530 rooms on a peak night, for a total of 3,550
room nights.
One of the 4 will also have the IETF network, courtesy of WIDE. \
The JTB current system only permits reservations from 31 October to 7
November, not before or after. We are trying to get that fixed. We
think that reservations may be open Tuesday, but might be Wednesday.
Our preference would have been to open the Overflow Hotels together
with the Headquarters Hotel. We did not to provide those needing
Visas more time to process their applications.
3. Alternative Hotels
There are a number of alternative hotels near the Pacifico Yokohama
(Meeting Venue). The IETF does not have a contract with these
hotels, nor is the IETF network available. This information is
provided as a convenience to meeting attendees. The IETF makes no
representation as to availability, prices, cancellation practices,
or Internet quality.
Map of possible alternative hotels:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/hotels+near+InterContinental+
Yokohama+Grand,+Yokohama,+Kanagawa+Prefecture,+Japan/%4035.
4604397,139.6350251,14z?hl=en
You may use your favorite search engines such as:
http://www.hotels.com/
http://www.trivago.com/
https://www.airbnb.com/
You should expect to see an update Tuesday.
Ray
On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:39 PM, manning <bmanning(_at_)karoshi(_dot_)com> wrote:
Perhaps a data point / leverage.
The week -AFTER- the IETF, was the Yokohama International Quilt week. Same
venue, same hotel. It’s been scheduled for over a year now.
Many groups/tours are SOLD OUT, in planning to attend this event, plus side
trips the week before and after. This event is larger than the IETF.
…and it was recently canceled by the organizer…
Perhaps (maybe) a number of the reserved rooms are tied to that event and
they have not cleaned up after the effects of the cancelation.
manning
bmanning(_at_)karoshi(_dot_)com
PO Box 6151
Playa del Rey, CA 90296
310.322.8102
On 17August2015Monday, at 10:18, Adam Roach <adam(_at_)nostrum(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On 8/17/15 11:48, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
Speaking from personal experience, I have always found Internet access
in Japanese hotels to be quite excellent even without these upgrades
by our NOC team.
I suspect that the historically destroyed Internet connections in many of
the overflow hotels -- and the Maastrict hotel for that matter -- are
perfectly adequate for a normal mix of guests. I find it difficult to
believe that you could accurately judge what a hotel's performance would be
without a load similar to what IETF attendees typically bring with them.
To be clear, issues rise above those of simple bandwidth saturation. Most
commonly, I've seen things that I suspect are DHCP pool exhaustion (with
results ranging from issuing duplicate addresses (!) to simply being unable
to get an address) and NAT port exhaustion (leading to the inability to make
or maintain connections). We bring a unique set of stresses to an
infrastructure that are way outside the normal envelope.
/a