At 10:08 AM 3/19/2013, Jeffrey Haas wrote: >On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 08:22:46AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: >> >> >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> writes: >> Jeffrey> Such an exercise would probably generate a lot less >> Jeffrey> controversy than my unsanctioned badge experiment. >> >> Jeffrey> http://pfrc.org/~jhaas/pictures/badge.jpg >> >> nice. >> Instead of getting a new badge every meeting, maybe we should just get >> an IETF86 dot on a badge we keep from meeting to meeting. > >I didn't realize more people hadn't seen the badge. Since I've gotten a few >inquiries about it, here's the comments I'd had: > >- Some people were upset that I was wearing an unofficial badge. None of > these were the people involved in giving them out. (My official badge was > in my laptop bag just in case.)
There's a long history of "martian" badges at the IETF. During the Stanford IETF many many years ago, there were something like a dozen "Milo Medin" badges (and I seem to remember at one point Milo was wearing none of them), as well as badges where the older IETF logo had been replaced with various of the Klingon, Federation and Romulan symbols from Star Trek. >- The company logo was definitely too big. I got the badge the morning > before I headed out for the conference and it was a bit late to ask Chris > to alter the design the minimize it. My preference would have been a bigger > IETF logo and smaller company logo. (Or "type treatment" as he'll tell > me.) Adding text to the blue dot would have been nice but wasn't thought > about after the fact. >- The biggest concern expressed by those seeing it was that how could one > tell that I've actually paid for the conference? As was pointed out by > multiple parties, a piece of paper isn't exactly good security if we > actually cared about that. :-) To the best of my knowledge, Beijing was the only IETF meeting that ever had anyone checking badges. And for the most part, the people who attend, pay. And if they don't (due to say financial reversals) but still contribute, I'm ok with that. >- Biggest comment from the people dispensing badges was that it's their job > to give out the dots. Since the dot, while removable by design, is part > of the badge this is somewhat problematic. >- Other comments are that the lanyards are far more of a validation that > you've been to registration than the piece of paper. >- This badge was apparently responsible for eating an hour of discussion > during an I* telechat. :-) > >The badge is acrylic produced on a laser cutter with custom cut-out vinyl. >A big goal of the badge was to have something where the name was >significantly easier to view from a distance. However, I have a short name. > >I had approached some people in ISOC about the possibility of permanent >badges as a fund raiser during the bits and bytes. I haven't really >followed up on it yet. > >-- Jeff
