Re: timing for venue contracting

> On 26 Jul 2026, at 02:56, Bob Hinden <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 24, 2026, at 9:37=E2=80=AFPM, John Levine <[email protected]> =
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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/...
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>> 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 =
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>> 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 =
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>> 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?
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> Well said.
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> In this case, given that IETF 128 is only ~8 months away, I expect =
that the choices were limited.
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> Bob
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Poor conclusion.

Given that we knew this was going to happen for the past five years (or =
more), then there was essentially unlimited choice!

Geoff