RE: [wss] Some initial logistics for our upcoming meeting

Regarding 
the hotel... 

The meeting will be held, as described in the WSS-TC Charter 
[1] on September 4th/5th 2002 

The meeting 
will be held at the Sofitel Hotel, Redwood City, CA (details below) For those of 
you not too familiar with the geography this location is quite close to the San 
Francisco International airport. 
 

Having stayed 
there once before, I'll tell you it's a *gorgeous* hotel, especially if your 
room faces the lagoon.

 
Date: Sept 4 
& 5, 2002
Venue: Sofitel Hotel, Redwood City, CA
Address
  
      223 Twin Dolphin Drive 
        
REDWOOD CITY, CA -  94065
        USA 
  
      Tel : (+1)650/5989000 
        Fax : 
(+1)650/5989383

        Nearest Airport: San 
Francisco International Airport (SFO)
        Other near 
Airports:  Oakland International Airport and San Jose International Airport 
(SJC) 

        Meeting 
Name: Web Services Security Meeting (Required for Hotel room booking)
  
      
We have been 
informed that the hotel is offering a reduced room rate of  $149 (+ tax) 
per night, to be paid by the participant. For those that wish to stay in the 
same hotel the meeting is being held at. This rate is being offered until August 
20th and should be bookable as of now.

I just 
made my reservations.  The hotel reservations people don't seem to know 
anything about the group, and the hotel sales department says that they have a 
contract but it hasn't been signed yet.  So they accepted my reservation, 
but they won't give the $149 rate until the contract gets 
signed.

 

Just 
in case others are trying to get reservations locked in... our travel people say 
that the key word in the above sentence is 
"should".
 

 
We are grateful to our meeting sponsor , Sun Microsystems for arranging 
and providing the meeting facilities for us.