RE: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-04-10 Thread Fred Baker
At 04:48 PM 3/26/2001 -0500, Hagop Karaoghlanian wrote: >Hi there, I agree with Margaret on this topic, and being about 2 weeks old >with the organization, for the record I haven't jumped into a discussion >until now. It is a little overwhelming to say the least to jump into an >"open" discussion

RE: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-28 Thread graham . travers
s, Graham * - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: John W Noerenberg II [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings > > At 9:07 AM +0100 3/26/01

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-26 Thread John W Noerenberg II
At 9:07 AM +0100 3/26/01, Jon Crowcroft wrote: >i think the value of the IETF is its informality - the implied litigious >american attitude about "open" = "everyone MUST attend" etc would >break the IETF even more than pure size. This is essentially what we mean when we say, "We believe in rough

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-25 Thread Jon Crowcroft
actually, the problem i have with the message was that there is an assumption about an attitude - i mean al i meant was i wanted to get good engineering work done in the normal way all effective work gets done given it wasnt actually a WG it couldnt actualy make any decisions, but it mioght get s

RE: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-25 Thread Hagop Karaoghlanian
tting the hang of it now, whatever that means. Hagop -Original Message- From: Margaret Wasserman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings Sorry that I wasn't more specific. I wa

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-25 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Sorry that I wasn't more specific. I wasn't objecting to the idea of work being done in a bar... I think that we need to be careful about the assumption that everyone we haven't seen before, or that doesn't speak at a meeting, is a "tourist". If we want to have an open organization, we shoul

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ll oyd Wood writes: >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > >> We're getting far afield, but "tourist" refers to someone who attends >> and possibly tries to participate in working groups without having done >> their homework. I've lost track of how man

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Dave Crocker
At 08:31 AM 3/23/2001, Lloyd Wood wrote: >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > We're getting far afield, but "tourist" refers to someone who attends > > and possibly tries to participate in working groups without having done > > their homework. I've lost track of how many times this

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread David C Lawrence
Jon Crowcroft writes: > also,the wireless access fro mthe pub was inspired! we got really > serious bar bof work done [...] I wouldn't call it inspired, though it is greatly appreciated. Wireless access from the hotel bar (and sometimes from bars down the street!) has been a feature of IETF for y

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Design teams and editorial teams are part of our process, and they may as well meet in the pub as anywhere. As long as their results are put in front of the WG, I don't see a problem here. Brian Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > Not to pick on Jon specifically, but how is this common IETF > atti

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
well adding another enue to the IETF seems to me to be more open also note the _process_ is to do with WG last call etc - we were'd`nt doing anymore than talking about bugs in i-ds that we wrote (and all authoprs were present) - this is what bar bofs are usually for - i dont see that this is any

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <4.2.2.20010323090914.01abfd30@localhost>, Margaret Wasserman writes : > >Not to pick on Jon specifically, but how is this common IETF >attitude consistent with the IETF's stated commitment to >open process? > >At 06:52 AM 3/23/01 , Jon Crowcroft wrote: > >>also,the wireless access fro

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Not to pick on Jon specifically, but how is this common IETF attitude consistent with the IETF's stated commitment to open process? At 06:52 AM 3/23/01 , Jon Crowcroft wrote: >also,the wireless access fro mthe pub was inspired! we got really >serious bar bof work done without tourists kibbitzi

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
also,the wireless access fro mthe pub was inspired! we got really serious bar bof work done without tourists kibbitzing In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RJ Atkinson typed: >>At 12:52 22/03/01, William Allen Simpson wrote: >>>This is a rare case where I disagree with Phil. This is a good >>>

RE: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-22 Thread David R. Oran
The economy was probably at least as big a deterrent as the weather. That's one deterrent I wold rather not have as a permanent feature :-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of RJ Atkinson > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:26 PM > To: