Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So what then for future meetings? Will they let us play alongside for free if we promise to be v6 only?g On the other hand imagine wireless-free WG sessions!g I would imagine that the IETF as _customers of the hotel_ can do pretty much

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread Joe Touch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sort of had to start happening. Marriott apparently aims to provide wireless access at 400 hotels in Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. FWIW, wireless access != being on the Internet Many places use NATs and/or firewalls, or require registered MAC addresses (some

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread John Stracke
Pekka Savola wrote: I would imagine that the IETF as _customers of the hotel_ can do pretty much what it wants. Depends on Marriott's contract with Wayport--it probably specifies some degree of exclusivity. But Wayport might be happy to grant an exception when they learn the volume of

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread Joe Touch
John Stracke wrote: Pekka Savola wrote: I would imagine that the IETF as _customers of the hotel_ can do pretty much what it wants. Depends on Marriott's contract with Wayport--it probably specifies some degree of exclusivity. But Wayport might be happy to grant an exception when they

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Marriott's announcement was that they had signed an agreement with T-Mobile to provide the 802.11b network services. This is the same company that provides the services at Starbucks in the U.S. My personal opinion is that the service is pretty poor. The available subscription plans are

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread John C Klensin
Folks, the Secretariat is quite good at this stuff. Really. The odds that they are going to book us into a hotel where we can't work effectively --especially along a dimension as easily understood as this one-- are, I think (reinforced by all of our experience since Houston), low enough that

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread John Stracke
John C Klensin wrote: Folks, the Secretariat is quite good at this stuff. No argument there. :-) -- /=\ |John Stracke |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Principal Engineer|http://www.centive.com|