Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, July 17, 2006 10:11:07 AM -0400 Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For me Paris and Montreal were the two worst meetings I have experienced in ten years because of the separation of the IETF hotel from the meeting locations and the in ability to provide network access in th

Re: questions about Dallas money

2006-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 06:09:42 PM -0400 Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 $177/person for F&B. So, if I put $20 of looneys in my pocket each day ... your pocket would be pretty heavy. Since water, soda, and cookies are al

RE: The IETF 66 Attendees Alias

2006-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 03:07:46 PM -0700 Randall Gellens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:08 AM -0700 7/12/06, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: How about this: Use the same mailing list. The secretariat marks important messages as important via the header flag customarily used for this

Re: The IETF 66 Attendees Alias

2006-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, July 10, 2006 10:52:42 PM -0400 Ray Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alan, et al. Message received. I agree. Changes being made. Experiment provided valuable information. People don't like to be subscribed to mailing lists without their consent. They also don't like to be ex

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread John L
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you don't find IETF meetings to be exciting enough on their own merits, it's OK if you don't go. Why not kill two birds with a stone? after enjoying the nice merits of the IETF meeting, you can appreciate the different life in the different cities at t

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread YAO Jiankang
- Original Message - From: "John L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "YAO Jiankang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:34 AM Subject: Re: Meetings in other regions > >> I do think there is considerable merit in identifying a set of venues > >> that are known to do a good jo

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Yes, the 405 can have traffic jams anywhere at any time, including 2:00 AM. Those seem particularly unjust. Regards Marshall On Jul 17, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Stephen Casner wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Depending on where you are coming from, and when you purchase your ti

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread John L
I do think there is considerable merit in identifying a set of venues that are known to do a good job and using them whenever a meeting is scheduled for their part of the world. Minneapolis is roughly in the middle of the populated part of North America, the hotel knows us, why not go back there?

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread YAO Jiankang
- Original Message - From: "John Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Meetings in other regions > >If it is that bad front of the house I don't trust their maintenance > >crews. > > No problem, they locked out the mechanics union and hired

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread John Levine
>If it is that bad front of the house I don't trust their maintenance >crews. No problem, they locked out the mechanics union and hired replacements quite a while ago. While I think there is some chance that you would show up for a Northwest flight and find that the airline had suddenly gone out

RE: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Mineapoilis is served by an airline that has Labor issues. Last time we waited two hours for a bag to come off the plane. If it is that bad front of the house I don't trust their maintenance crews. Direct flight is not a must for me. > -Original Message- > From: Tim Chown [mailto:[EMA

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Stephen Casner
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Depending on where you are coming from, and when you purchase your > tickets, you may find it faster / cheaper / better to fly to LAX or > Long Beach and drive down to San Diego. (LAX <-> San Diego is ~ 200 > km, and LAX is basically on the San Diego

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:56:08AM -0400, Melinda Shore wrote: > > As the number of meeting groups grow and the meetings become more > densely packed, the jabber transcripts are useful for following > what's going on in a meeting you're not in, as well as providing > feedback. Improving WLAN (802

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:38:15AM -0400, Stephen Campbell wrote: > > Or skip the car. Fly into LAX, take one of several shuttles to Los > Angeles Union Station, and take Amtrak's "Surfliner" to San Diego. > These trains run every 1 to 2 hours and get to San Diego in less than > 3 hours. And

Re: Response to the Appeal by [...]

2006-07-17 Thread JFC Morfin
At 20:52 17/07/2006, Frank Ellermann wrote: Refusing to address such issues could be interpreted as some kind of evidence by the claimant. Better they try it even if they get it wrong - after all this is IMO about an "attempt to enforce netiquette" on two mailing lists, Correct. Not the purpos

Re: Response to the Appeal by JFC Morfin dated 2006-02-17

2006-07-17 Thread JFC Morfin
Dear Pete, your point is well made. An appeal to ISOC will be _considered_ after the appeal to the IAB (this is a part of the DoS imposed on me - and on the competing solution I introduced at the ITU/UNESCO meeting in Geneva :-)). However, there are four aspects to be considered. 1. the way t

Re: Response to the Appeal by [...]

2006-07-17 Thread Pete Resnick
On 7/17/06 at 8:52 PM +0200, Frank Ellermann wrote: Pete Resnick wrote: Appeals of this sort should not be brought to the IESG (or the IAB). I suggest that the IESG and the IAB always decline to decide such issues in the future should similar appeals come up. The question then shifts from "

Re: The Accountable Web RE: not listening

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Ellermann
Keith Moore wrote: > As far as I can tell, the threats to individuals that result > from traceable network transactions are at least as great as > the threats that result from anonymity. We need to be > thinking in terms of balancing the risk from those two kinds > of threats. This is hard becau

Re: Response to the Appeal by [...]

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Ellermann
Pete Resnick wrote: [6.5.3] >| Further recourse is available only in cases in which the procedures >| themselves (i.e., the procedures described in this document) are >| claimed to be inadequate or insufficient to the protection of the >| rights of all parties in a fair and open Internet Standar

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Maybe we (or even I) should open a voting page where people could enter their desired locations; or, conversely, the iAD could make it part of the meeting survey. Regards Marshall On Jul 17, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: When meeting in North America, I would strongly prefer

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Scott W Brim
On 07/17/2006 15:46 PM, Andy Bierman allegedly wrote: > - I didn't find a terminal room, but instead a giant 'break room' >for ad-hoc meetings and food breaks. This was wonderful, and >about time! 802.11 has thankfully made the terminal room obsolete. >I want this format every time.

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Fred Baker wrote: > On 7/17/06 10:51 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why do you need a jabber _scribe_ for input? > > The primary value of a jabber scribe is that someone knows that *they* > should type into the chat room. Absent that, yes, anyone *could* type, > but who

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Melinda Shore wrote: > On 7/17/06 10:51 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One thing that could help here is reduce the audio lag. It's quite >> common to see something appear in jabber before you hear it on the >> audio feed. A long delay makes reacting to the audio over jab

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 7/17/06 10:51 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why do you need a jabber _scribe_ for input? The primary value of a jabber scribe is that someone knows that *they* should type into the chat room. Absent that, yes, anyone *could* type, but who reliably *would*? Havin

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Edward Lewis wrote: > I did listen to some of the sessions "on the radio" when I was caught in > my hotel room and unable to make it to the venue in time. While doing > so, I found myself wistfully thinking of remote participation of ICANN > meetings, where video is supplied. ;) In-time video ha

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Fred Baker
On 7/17/06 10:51 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why do you need a jabber _scribe_ for input? The primary value of a jabber scribe is that someone knows that *they* should type into the chat room. Absent that, yes, anyone *could* type, but who reliably *would*? _

RE: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
When meeting in North America, I would strongly prefer cities that have several direct flight connections from both Europe and Asia. Of the recent IETF meeting places, San Diego is the only one that clearly fails this criteria... so why are we going there again? Taking flight connections and vis

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Andy Bierman
Marshall Eubanks wrote: Nobody flies from LAX to San Diego because it ends up taking twice as long as driving for 10 times as much, so don't expect lots of flights from LA. For visitors, you might want to fly to LAX, rent a car, drive down the 405, and take a detour to the Laguna Beach area on t

Re: Minutes and jabber logs

2006-07-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-jul-2006, at 17:53, David Harrington wrote: Jabber logs written by a scribe do not do a good job representing the body language and the nuances of speech that may be important to really understand what a person said. People should know better than to use body language and nuances of sp

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Pete Resnick wrote: > On 7/10/06 at 8:34 AM -0400, IETF Administrative Director wrote: > >> we seek comments on the Statement of Work located at: >> http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/ > > - The SOW has nothing about performance expectations (i.e., what is > noted in section 4 of draft-mankin-pub-req

RE: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 17 July, 2006 15:21 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> * picking places within those countries or regions that >> have good airports with easy (and multiple) international >> connections. Even San Diego is a little marginal in that >> regard. Based on experience in

Minutes and jabber logs

2006-07-17 Thread David Harrington
Hi, I would not like to see raw jabber logs included as part of the minutes. The signal-to-noise ratio is way too low in many meetings. Jabber logs written by a scribe do not do a good job representing the body language and the nuances of speech that may be important to really understand what a p

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Stephen Campbell
On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello; On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C Klensin wrote: It also means such things as: * picking places within those countries or regions that have good airports with easy (and

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 11:26 AM, "Dave Cridland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Melinda's intention was to suggest that the meetings ought to > be growing in significance. > Is that better? The wording is better, but it's still the case that I'd rather that we made a better effort to conduct the bulk of

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
In one session, I provided jabber note taking. Participants indicated that my real-time efforts to create concise statements of what was being discussed where helpful even with the audio feed. (I asked because I was not sure I was adding value.) Yours, Joel At 10:51 AM 7/17/2006, Iljitsch va

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Jul 17 16:21:49 2006, Melinda Shore wrote: On 7/17/06 11:17 AM, "Dave Cridland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Jul 17 16:10:49 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >> Did I say it should become less important? I don't see how the >> meetings are growing in significance, though. > I think

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 11:17 AM, "Dave Cridland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Jul 17 16:10:49 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >> Did I say it should become less important? I don't see how the >> meetings are growing in significance, though. > I think Melinda's intention was to suggest that they ought

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Spencer Dawkins
That said, and given the difficulties of balancing competing priorities in site location, it seems reasonable to me to make a decent, good-faith effort without getting overly bogged down in "where should we meet?" discussions, and really try to get the remote participation thing nailed down a litt

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Jul 17 16:10:49 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17-jul-2006, at 16:56, Melinda Shore wrote: Although I did jabber scribing for a couple of sessions the past week I don't see all that much value in doing that: the audio feeds are much more useful for following what's going on. As

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-jul-2006, at 16:56, Melinda Shore wrote: Why do you need a jabber _scribe_ for input? To allow remote participants to provide input. You can't type and run upto the microphone to relay comments at the same time... Although I did jabber scribing for a couple of sessions the past w

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread bmanning
MEXICO On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:54:16AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > > There are two issues: > > > > 1) Cost. IETF has limited resources, so unless each of us want to pay more > > and more for the registration fees or we are able to compensate the cost > > w

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 10:51 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you need a jabber _scribe_ for input? To allow remote participants to provide input. > Although I did jabber scribing for a couple of sessions the past week > I don't see all that much value in doing that: the audio f

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-jul-2006, at 16:35, Melinda Shore wrote: it seems reasonable to me to make a decent, good-faith effort without getting overly bogged down in "where should we meet?" discussions, and really try to get the remote participation thing nailed down a little better. The ratio of good to bad remo

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Edward Lewis
At 10:11 AM -0400 7/17/06, Jeffrey Altman wrote: My belief is that working group sessions should avoid presentations whenever possible. Visual material is something that is helpful but it need not be a presentation. E.g., if we still had blackboards it would often times be easier to express

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 10:11 AM, "Jeffrey Altman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking as a working group chair, what is important to me is the > ability to make progress on the milestones the working group is > committed to achieve. Sure, but you don't want to risk insularity, which I think clearly has been

Re: Response to the Appeal by JFC Morfin dated 2006-02-17

2006-07-17 Thread Pete Resnick
On 7/10/06 at 2:05 PM -0400, IESG Secretary wrote: 1. The appeal asserts that RFC 3683 (BCP 83) is illegal, and specifically in conflict with certain provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In particular it cites Article 10 (right to public hearing), 11 (presumption of innocen

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-17 Thread Pete Resnick
On 7/10/06 at 8:34 AM -0400, IETF Administrative Director wrote: we seek comments on the Statement of Work located at: http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/ - The SOW has nothing about performance expectations (i.e., what is noted in section 4 of draft-mankin-pub-req-10). Though I don't think the SO

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Speaking as a working group chair, what is important to me is the ability to make progress on the milestones the working group is committed to achieve. Traveling to some far away location in order to fill the seats with spectators does not result in work being accomplished. I require that not on

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello; On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C Klensin wrote: It also means such things as: * picking places within those countries or regions that have good airports with easy (and

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C Klensin wrote: It also means such things as: * picking places within those countries or regions that have good airports with easy (and multiple) international connections. Even San Diego

RE: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Pasi.Eronen
John C Klensin wrote: > It also means such things as: > > * picking places within those countries or regions that have > good airports with easy (and multiple) international > connections. Even San Diego is a little marginal in that > regard. Based on experience in the last year

Re: +1

2006-07-17 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 15, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Is it just in my part of the ietf woods, or is this becoming a widespread phenomenon? If so, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Over in Atompub, this has become the normal idiom for reacting to proposals, with common usages such as +/- 0