Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Randy Bush
Frank was a good AD and managed WGs as well as any of us (and better than many) as a wg chair who served in frank's area, i will second and third that. randy

mpls

2000-12-20 Thread Ali Boudani
just testing

Re: Ietf meeting in Italy?

2000-12-20 Thread Roberto Ciacci
Hi everybody it would be a great event! Who manages IETF meetings planning? Ciao Roberto alessio porcacchia wrote: Dear Collegues and Friends, When the Ietf must decide to prepare a meeting in Italy I hope that see all of you "de visu" for talk to my "tech friends" Ciao Alessio Sys Adim

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Matt Holdrege wrote: At 08:07 AM 12/19/2000, Frank Kastenholz wrote: At 09:28 AM 12/19/00 -0500, RJ Atkinson wrote: We can also end the de facto practice of using the sessions as tutorials and discontinue fancy prepared presentations of the material already in the

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Melinda Shore
What happened to the proven and time-honored technique of getting to a meeting early if you want a seat? I know the argument is that we want to hang out in the hallways until the last minute and still get a seat (because we are more "important" than a bunch of the people that did get there

No more e-mails; Please!!

2000-12-20 Thread Leon Thompson
No more e-mails; Please!! Many thanks Leon Thompson Research Development Manager RaidNet Ltd

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread John Martin
Let me give you an example of where this didn't work recently. At San Diego, we had back-to-back meetings of WREC followed by OPES BoF and CDNP BoF. For the most part, there was a very large overlap in the attendance. If you did not forgoe the coffee break and - literally! - run between the

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I agree with John and Bob Braden on this. We shouldn't worry about people who lurk for a few meetings and then participate, or people who lurk in some WGs and participate in others. We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came to the

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Robert G. Ferrell
We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy. Well, you've certainly convinced me never to attend a meeting. The attitude being promulgated by the majority of these posts, whether

Looking for help on Roamabout upgrades

2000-12-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have an old Roamabout hub. What to see if I can get an 802.11b card (and microcode) for it. If anyone knows who to turn to for this, please email me. I can't find it on any of Cabletron's splinter companies.

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Vernon Schryver
Let me give you an example of where this didn't work recently. At San Diego, we had back-to-back meetings ... There is another solution for real WG participants. Simply abandon the meetings to what by someone's estimate is the overwhelming majority of observers and other dead weights. Do

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread John Day
At 10:10 -0600 12/20/00, Robert G. Ferrell wrote: We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy. Well, you've certainly convinced me never to attend a meeting. The attitude being

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread John Hawkinson
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:20:12PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: I would also favor equipping Chairs with long poles with hooks at the end for dragging performers offstage, or at least on/oiff switches for microphones :-) The "Bradner method" has long functioned for this. The Chair (or AD)

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Keith Moore
We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy. interesting idea. so assuming that a lot of folks come to the IETF expecting something different than it is, and going home disappointed,

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Dave Crocker
At 11:20 AM 12/19/00 -0600, Pete Resnick wrote: How about a first step: In WG sessions that I chair, there are going to be no more presentations. From now on, one week before the IETF meeting, document editors will be required to send me a list of outstanding issues they wish to discuss in

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Michael W. Condry
John- Every IETF meeting results in a discussion of WG chairs asking their attendees to read the drafts, get involved on the email, etc. Time has not changed the fact that some folks to and some do not follow this suggestion. Many folks attend the BOF/WG in order to get started! However, I

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think you misheard me, or I misspoke. I would be the last person to suggest we should turn away new people. But many people come to exactly one meeting (I can't quote statistics, but the Secretariat knows the numbers), and this seems all wrong to me - the IETF only makes sense for sustained

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:00:59PM -0800, John Beck wrote: Keith I honestly don't know how many of the 'lurkers' in any particular room Keith are actively participating in some WG versus how many are lurking in Keith all of them. but I do know that a large number of lurkers is harmful Keith

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-20 Thread V Guruprasad
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, John Stracke wrote: Why don't you read the I-D I did. Then you'd see that the invisibility refers to that of the server host, as follows: The client sees only the service name binding in the form of the URL, but what it gets as the data path is a virtual path (or LSP)

RE: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Christian Huitema
I have a simpler point about logistics. What we are doing in the IETF nowadays is downright dangerous. Prevalence of the laptops means that the room is criss-crossed with power cables. Lack of room means that the alleys are packed with standing or sitting listeners. If anything goes wrong and we

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy. interesting idea. so assuming that a lot of folks come to the IETF expecting something different than it is, and going home

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Michael W. Condry
A couple of years ago I did a study on IETF attendance - the data was gathered from the IETF web site looking at email addresses for folks attending. Of the 15 or so ompanies that were examined almost all attendees were almost always "repeaters". I cannot be more specific because the report still

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Geoff Huston
If people want tutorials, then I think we should have them Did you see the Security Tutorial in the IETF 49 Agenda that was scheduled on Sunday? I'm unsure as to the number of folk who attended or their impressions of what they got out of it, or what the IETF fgot out of it, as I have not

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Keith Moore
it's interesting that you chose to examine attendees according to their (presumed) "companies", when IETF doesn't recognize such affiliation. however it's hardly surprising if successful IETF folks gravitate to companies who are willing to support such work. Keith

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Keith Moore
The attitude being promulgated by the majority of these posts, whether justified or not, is most likely to lead (IMO) to IETF meetings populated by two distinct groups of people: 1) Old timers 2) The clueless masses in my experience, clueful newbies are quite welcome at IETF, and very

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael, As I said, the Secretariat has the facts, but I think you will find that the complete data support the statememt that we have a high proportion of newbies. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but is a bad thing if they don't become contributors. Jeffrey Altmann expressed it very well.

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith Moore wrote: We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy. interesting idea. so assuming that a lot of folks come to the IETF expecting something different than it is, and

Re: 49th-IETF conf room planning

2000-12-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:00:53 EST, RJ Atkinson said: I've seen others do similarly. For example, I've never run into Valdis at an IETF meeting, but he has an impact. If anybody's seen me at an IETF meeting, they were talking to a Klingon impostor. As John Beck will testify, I don't

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Manning
% We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come % back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home % unhappy. % % Brian % % so assuming that a lot of folks come to the IETF expecting something % different than it is, and going home

Re: Addressless Internet [stalker alert..]

2000-12-20 Thread V Guruprasad
I've taken the liberty of posting it to the mailing list as IMHO the issues Joel raises are very pertinent and I believe worthy of general consumption. [Also, I use colourful syntax highlighting in Vim under Mutt, which makes it easy for me to view the inline quotation. I realise it will look

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:54:22 CST, Brian E Carpenter said: Hard to say, but the newcomer's briefing and the Tao of the IETF are both on the web site. Maybe we need some text on the registration page pointing to those and suggesting strongly that people should read them before typing in their

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread David Meyer
Bill, just a minor note it was done. And with a nod to our commercial brethren, it might bre reasonable to retransmit sessions over some high-capacity, under-utilized infrastructure like the I2 fabric to reach more people. And given the lower costs for video-capture it ought to be

RE: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 9:44 AM -0800 12/20/00, Christian Huitema wrote: I have a simpler point about logistics. What we are doing in the IETF nowadays is downright dangerous. Prevalence of the laptops means that the room is criss-crossed with power cables. Lack of room means that the alleys are packed with standing

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 1:54 PM -0600 12/20/00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Hard to say, but the newcomer's briefing and the Tao of the IETF are both on the web site. It is important to note that the Tao is being substantially upgraded and has lots of new material specifically aimed at dealing with some of the

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Pete Resnick
On 12/20/00 at 9:37 AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: At 11:20 AM 12/19/00 -0600, Pete Resnick wrote: How about a first step: In WG sessions that I chair, there are going to be no more presentations. From now on, one week before the IETF meeting, document editors will be required to send me a list

Re: Bottom feeders

2000-12-20 Thread V Guruprasad
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Keith Moore wrote: maybe the registration form should have a short quiz on material from these documents, which must be filled out before the form is considered complete. and if not completed successfully the prospective registrant is warned that he may be wasting his

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Manning
% Bill, just a minor note % % % it was done. And with a nod to our commercial brethren, it might bre % reasonable to retransmit sessions over some high-capacity, % under-utilized infrastructure like the I2 fabric to reach more people. % And given the lower costs for video-capture it

Re: NATs *ARE* evil^H^H^H^Hmpls!

2000-12-20 Thread Jon Crowcroft
one of nature's great dualities: statedulness will take root in the most barren soil, even though datagrams will try to route around it j though if nat speak unto nat, then ipv6 be born

Re: Welcoming newcomers

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Manning
% Bill said: %a "winnowing" process is now in effect, making it harder, perhaps %much harder to allow individual contribution. If I was starting today, %I'd avoid the IETF as a venue. % % If we are projecting this image, it's a problem. But given the constant % increase

Call For Paper : IEEE Symposium on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks (SAWN) 2001

2000-12-20 Thread Kim Dongkyun
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Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:41:43 CST, Pete Resnick said: Nonsense. Leaving aside BOFs (which I do think are different), I defy you to give me one example where a presentation is the right thing to do in a WG face-to-face meeting. Presentations can either be done in written form (on the mailing

Re: Welcoming newcomers

2000-12-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:54:18 PST, Bill Manning said: I am trying to decide the extent to which I wish to become involved in the specific area. So far I have had the area director hiss at me when I stated my company name at the WG meeting and been told that certain solutions could not

RE: Ietf meeting in Italy?

2000-12-20 Thread Durah, Kheder
Interesting meeting, any idea of the agenda? RGDS Kheder Durah, Ph.D. -Original Message- From: Roberto Ciacci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:56 PM To: alessio porcacchia Cc: Dave Robinson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ietf meeting in Italy? Hi

Re: Welcoming newcomers

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Manning
% Bill: Could you clarify 2 things, if you know the answers to either? % % Valdis Kletnieks I was not present so I could not clarify. It does seem pretty clear that these days, "bad-ideas" are often floated and experimented with in other