The "wifi phone booth in Japan [...] wildly popular with attendees," was actually at APRICOT in Kyoto, but I know it all blends together after a while :-) At $50, vs the retail price of around $350, it was a loss-leader give-away. I think we'd be happy to get more "free stuff" like that :-)
Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Dave Crocker wrote: > Harald Alvestrand wrote: > > > One option I do NOT want to consider (and which the 770 stand in the > > lobby kind of dented a little) is to add a tradeshow to the IETF > > meeting. > > > Thinking about this further, I am struck by the fact that the 770 booth and > the > wifi phone booth in Japan were wildly popular with attendees. So the concern > you raise is a very real and very serious slippery-slope, but portions of > that > slope seem to be entirely acceptable to the IETF attendees. > > Here is a guess at the rule we should impose: > > A sponsor donating a sufficiently large amount may have a small booth for the > sale of a single product that is a) unannounced or has been announced within > the > last [6] months, and b) appropriate for purchase and use by individuals. > > d/ > -- > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
