One odd thing is that there are other groups who can't tell you what week
they're going to have a meeting any time in the next 6-7 years, but who can
seem to get block sizes for a larger percentage of the attendees at meetings
this year than the 15-25% we seem to get for IETF meetings anymore.
And this has been a worsening trend. I've attended most IETF meetings in the
last 20 years (I have the t-shirts to prove it) and I can remember when it was
still possible to book a room at one of the meeting hotels at the IETF rate at
least up to the block cut-off date (as opposed to an hour after the hotel
information is made available).
Something changed for IETF hotel bookings about the time of the bubble-burst
and most of us don't have any visibility into what that is. We can speculate,
but there seems to be empirical data that supports the idea that it is not an
unsolvable problem.
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-----Original Message-----
From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Ted Lemon
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:52 AM
To: Melinda Shore; IETF Discussion
Subject: RE: Hotel situation
Why are we continuing to have hotel issues meeting after meeting
after meeting after meeting?
Because we can't force hotels to give us large allocations. This was
discussed at length at the last plenary. Getting venues that do everything we
want is hard.
That said, I think you'd make a great candidate for the IAOC next time if you
feel like trying to disprove this point! :)