Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Melinda Shore
Kuala Lumpur which we just used for APRICOT 2001. Five-star hotel, the Pan Pacific $63 per night. Pay $93 and you're on the Executive floor with free breakfast, etc. The hotel is next to a convention center. Food was very inexpensive, with the exception of alcohol (Muslim country so you'd

Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
At 11:20 28/03/2001 -0500, Melinda Shore wrote: The cost thing is, I think, misleading. Having had the experience of having to go to many ETSI meetings, I've found that apart from a few incredibly expensive cities it's generally cheaper to go to Europe than it is to travel in the US. strangely,

Re: Meeting logistics cost, convenience and risk

2001-03-29 Thread Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:10:29 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: 2224339706.985771850@P2 References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:30 AM 3/28/2001, John C Klensin wrote: Subject to constraints of invitations and

Re: RFCs in PDF

2001-03-29 Thread John Stracke
John Stracke wrote: "Mortonson, Robert W" wrote: I find this most helpful. If only the ietf would do this for presentations instead of just html. Then one can put together a reliable collection that is completely portable for a meeting, conference, work on a plane, anywhere a active

Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Crawford
Let's see, the price is right, the convention center has plenty of room, there are loads of hotel rooms nearby. Hmm. Sounds great! OK, I'll bite: Kuala Lumpur which we just used for APRICOT 2001. Five-star hotel, the Pan Pacific $63 per night. Let's see, with the higher airfare and

Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Holdrege
At 07:32 PM 3/28/2001, Randy Bush wrote: So Ole, Cisco will be hosting an IETF there when? i think they co-hosted with qualcomm in san diego justthe other month. when will you be hosting? I've done it 1.5 times myself. How about you? P.S., it was a joke Randy.

Re: RFCs in PDF

2001-03-29 Thread Maurizio Patrignani
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dharani Vilwanathan wrote: Hi, Doesnt WORD preserve it? I thought WORD works well for RFCs. OSPFv2 RFC didnt print well, however. I had the same problem with the same RFC (2328). Some RFCs contain plenty of tabs, both in the ascii figures and in the text itself.

Re: Meeting logistics cost, convenience and risk

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Crocker
At 06:40 AM 3/29/2001, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote: should. Should be 2 years, and we tend to run no better than 1. That constrains choice and that either increases price or decreases convenience. While it contrains choice, it does not necessarily increase price or decrease convenience.

Off season locations

2001-03-29 Thread Dan Kolis
Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: actually the cheapest place, hotel-price-wise, to hold IETFs would probably be in a tourist trap on the off-season (the Riviera in October, after all the bathers have gone home, but before the staff leaves the hotel...) I say:

RE: Meeting logistics cost, convenience and risk and RE Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Fleischman, Eric W
I have been reading these many excellent points for eleven days now. However, I note that similar discussions occur after most IETFs. My own preference is that these conversations not occur, since their (almost predictable) recurrence suggests that this is more "venting" than "problem

Re: Exercise on Mauritius

2001-03-29 Thread Baree Sunnyasi
John Thanks for this exercise, which I have not been doing for quite some time. Anyway hope this will help for your databases. 1. Hotels and Meeting Room Mauritius has hosted several International conferences, seminars, Infotechs, etc. and has all the structures in the one town called Grand

Re: Exercise on Mauritius

2001-03-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Network connectivty is kinda hard... we need about 3Mb/s outbound for the multicast, in minnesota traffic peaked at around 10MB/s total according to dave farmer... Would need to find a host like intelstat/inmarsat to drop an earthstation on the roof of the hotel and backhual 10Mb/s to someplace

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread David Meyer
A few comments: I'm very supportive of both trying to deploy multicast and trying to make it possible to participate in IETF meetings from remote locations. But if the current effort isn't working, maybe we need to try something different. Do you think the broadcasts

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
1. poll WG chairs from the last IETF to see how many people contributed things in real time from remote locations. Well, not relevant; most people listen, just as they do when they are present (and BTW, this is a completely legitimate reason to do the multicasts).

Re: network simulation software?

2001-03-29 Thread Davide Careglio
Dear Wang, I used a network modelling language called TeD (Telecommunication Description Language, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/pads/teddoc.html) for 1-2 years and is not bad, but it has programming limitations. Try SSFNet (www.ssfnet.org), its (I suppose) directed successor. Regards,

RE: Meeting logistics cost, convenience and risk and RE Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread aaron
Eric- I therefore suggest that we either discontinue these many threads or else we establish something like POISED to actually do something to scratch these nagging itches. Not a bad idea on the face of it. However, I believe that the hosts play a large role in determining where we

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Keith Moore wrote: 1. poll WG chairs from the last IETF to see how many people contributed things in real time from remote locations. Well, not relevant; most people listen, just as they do when they are present (and BTW, this is a completely

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
Just out of curiosity: Why aren't we using something like a RealAudio stream? This seems to work well for everything from radio stations to ICANN meetings. I know it only works ONE way, but I also know that "questions from the multicast audience" are rarely heard anyway. The thing about Real

Tabs in RFCs -- NOT!

2001-03-29 Thread Bob Braden
Titto Patrignani wrote: * Some RFCs contain plenty of tabs, both in the ascii figures and in the * text itself. Text file tabs are assumed to jump to a column that is a * multiple of 8 (that is 8,16,24,...). I don't know a way for specifying * this in WORD. * I defined a .dot

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
Why aren't we using something like a RealAudio stream? please no. PowerPoint is bad enough. the last thing we need is another thing to bias IETF away from open systems.

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Keith Moore wrote: Why aren't we using something like a RealAudio stream? please no. PowerPoint is bad enough. the last thing we need is another thing to bias IETF away from open systems. Last I checked, the basic player is free, and implementations exists for

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
Last I checked, the basic player is free, and implementations exists for all the major platforms, which would put it on par with PDF/Acrobat reader in my book. it doesn't run on the platform I use, and on those rare occasions where they happen to produce a player that runs under Linux

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
Oh, and of course Internet standards based players are available for all platforms, right? Sometimes I think your techno religion outweights any sense of reality, Keith. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher The Internet Protocol Journal Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems Tel: +1

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
Sometimes I think your techno religion outweights any sense of reality, I'm interested in bringing about a better reality, not preserving the current one. Keith

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
Interesting logic. So, meanwhile, you would rather we NOT use widely available tools that allow "remote viewing" just because: - They aren't standards based - They aren't available on absolutely every platform Isn't this counter to allowing more participation? What's the alternative, wait

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
So, meanwhile, you would rather we NOT use widely available tools that allow "remote viewing" just because: no, I'm just saying that let's not take two steps backward in the name of making one step forward. the formats that we're currently using appear to run on more platforms (using a

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Oh, and of course Internet standards based players are available for all platforms, right? Yes (for a larger value of "all" than RealPlayer supports). vic/vat/rat are portable to many UNIX variants, and also run under Windows. I think that MacOS is the only orphan in this scenario, but ISTR

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread itojun
Last I checked, the basic player is free, and implementations exists for all the major platforms, which would put it on par with PDF/Acrobat reader in my book. what is the definition of "major platforms" here? if you could supply a list of freely-available player

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread itojun
Last I checked, the basic player is free, and implementations exists for all the major platforms, which would put it on par with PDF/Acrobat reader in my book. what is the definition of "major platforms" here? if you could supply a list of freely-available player implementations

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, meanwhile, you would rather we NOT use widely available tools that allow "remote viewing" just because: - They aren't standards based - They aren't available on absolutely every platform Isn't this counter to allowing more participation?

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
According to the Real Web page: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me or Windows NT 4.0, MacOS Yes, I know no Unix variants, but the above still covers a large portion of IETF would-be participants. I am not suggesting that RealPlayer be made the standard, just an option.

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Henning G. Schulzrinne
"Ole J. Jacobsen" wrote: Just out of curiosity: Why aren't we using something like a RealAudio stream? This seems to work well for everything from radio stations to ICANN meetings. I know it only works ONE way, but I also know that "questions from the multicast audience" are rarely heard

RE: Tabs in RFCs -- NOT!

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Hain
While the RFC should not contain tabs, if you find one, you can set Word as follows: Tools - Options - General - Measurements - Points Format - Tabs - (multiple of 12) Format - Font - Courier New - 12 pt This should reproduce the page as intended. -Original Message- From: Bob Braden

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-29 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... However. it now appears that the Real people have a new business model. The player is no longer free, but part of some stupid subscription service which allows "Access to the audio broadcast of every Major League Baseball game this

where can free download ITU-T recommendation V.24

2001-03-29 Thread Yang, Lei
where can free download ITU-T recommendation V.24? LEI

Conceptual Protocol

2001-03-29 Thread Vivek Jishtu
I have been working on a conceptual protocol for a couple of months. The protocol is related to transfer of streaming audio/video across the internet. It is in the conceptual phase and I have no idea whether it can be made into a real protocol. To know more about the portocol visit

Re: where can free download ITU-T recommendation V.24

2001-03-29 Thread Olivier DUBUISSON
"Yang, Lei" wrote: where can free download ITU-T recommendation V.24? Please note that 3 ITU-T Recommendations can be freely downloaded per person (of course, these documents are copyrighted and cannot be freely distributed on a website, for example!). Go to the ITU-T website

RE: Conceptual Protocol

2001-03-29 Thread Deepika Giri
RTP/RTCP is one such protocol already existing, what are you trying to do? -Original Message- From: Vivek Jishtu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Conceptual Protocol I have been working on a conceptual protocol for a

Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Randy Bush
when will you be hosting? I've done it 1.5 times myself. How about you? 2002, i believe. working on it now. randy

RE: where can free download ITU-T recommendation V.24

2001-03-29 Thread Shaw, Robert
http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/rec/v/index.html http://www.itu.int/publications/bookshop/how-to-buy.html#free describes how to download free a limited set of ITU-T Recommendations per year. Bob -- Robert Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor International