Re: timing for venue contracting

> On Jul 24, 2026, at 9:37=E2=80=AFPM, John Levine <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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> It appears that Michael Richardson  <[email protected]> said:
>> I personally don't have a problem with
>> Bangkok/Singapore/Bangkok/Singapore/Brisbane/Bangkok/Singapore/...
>=20
> Me neither but experience tells us that after we go back to the same
> place three times, they often crank up the rate.  That's why we aren't
> likely to be in Prague any time soon.
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> I would also like as much notice as possible but I understand that
> venue negotiations are astonishingly complicated.  We have the further
> problem of not being large enough to be a big meeting, while too big
> to be a small meeting, which limits the range of venues we can use.
> I mean, would we keep going to the Metropole if there were anywhere
> else in London that would work?

Well said.

In this case, given that IETF 128 is only ~8 months away, I expect that =
the choices were limited.

Bob