To add some data to this discussion, there's a table of Internet meetings and a chart of overlaps on the PCH website: <https://prefix.pch.net/applications/internet-governance-meetings/>
The current maximum collision factor is 5 (meetings/day). --Richard On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Andrew Allen wrote: > > There likely are no such dates as there are telecommunications standards > meetings of one kind or another virtually every week of the year (except > Christmas and (western) new year). > > Many other standards organisations depend on IETF standards so it is > important to avoid clashes with those organisations so those stakeholders can > participate. It is desirable if the meetings are not back to back but that > isn't always possible but direct clashes should be avoided especiallly since > IETF only meets 3 times a year. > > Andrew > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 10:19 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: voting system for future venues? > > On 29 Aug 2011, at 17:01 , Henk Uijterwaal wrote: > >> If we want more flexibility in order to find better hotel deals, then we have >> to do something like: dates are fixed approximately 1.5 years out, and we do >> not mind having meetings back-to-back with other organizations on the clash >> list. That means that some folks will have to travel around the globe >> between >> Friday afternoon and Sunday morning in order to make it from one meeting to >> another. > > Is this so bad that $300/night room prices for hundreds of participants to > avoid this issue is a good deal? > > One potential solution could be to select two or three weeks that don't clash > or only minimally clash and then start the negotiations with a few more > options, fixing the date a year or so out. > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential > information, privileged material (including material protected by the > solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public > information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended > recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, > please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your > system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this > transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
