On 5 July 2017 at 14:11, Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> wrote:

> On 5 Jul 2017, at 12:30, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es> wrote:
>
> I’m fine with an overall decision of the “general principles for a meeting location”, but is not that going to have almost the same difficulty for reaching consensus? Has this been decided already? There is a document about that?

I don’t believe so. IIRC there have been discussions from time to time about producing such a document and they never went anywhere.

The location of RIPE meetings are chosen according to the process described at:

https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/ripe-meeting-location-selection-process

The page links to a document describing the requirements.

Improvement suggestions are as always welcome.

As to the particular requirements for the upcoming meeting in Dubai, UAE, the requirements were not know to us, nor the local host at the time the decision was made. It would definitely been taken into consideration had it been known.

Sincerely,

Hans Petter Holen - RIPE Chair - hph@oslo.net - +47 4506605