Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-13 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Fred Baker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I asked James this privately, but if we're going to get into an off- topic discussion of global warming, I'll ask it publicly to whoever has a good answer. We all agree that global warming is

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-13 Thread Dan Harkins
Here we go Copious amounts of data...graphs...formulas...models...scientists predicting doom and humans are the cause. Where have I heard this before? Oh yea, the Club of Rome. Their copious amounts of data, graphs, models and formulas, predicted mass starvation and that economic

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-13 Thread Jari Arkko
Please save the planet by working on a better Internet, not by posting to an off-topic mail thread. Jari ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: Travel Considerations

2007-10-13 Thread Darryl (Dassa) Lynch
Jari Arkko wrote: Please save the planet by working on a better Internet, not by posting to an off-topic mail thread. Perhaps the IETF should consider purchasing carbon credits for each standards track document produced :) Darryl (Dassa) Lynch ___

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Dan Harkins
You're assuming that if 1000 people decide not to fly to Prague some weekend that the number of planes burning jet fuel to fly there will be different. I don't think so. Maybe you can start a Boycott Prague The Spoke City campaign which, if wildly successful, will reduce demand to fly there

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Eric Burger wrote: Here is an interesting optimization problem: it turns out the most polluting part of a conference is people taking jets to fly to the conference. Minimize that and the planet wins. Favors hub cities over spokes, like San Diego or Prague,

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Dave Crocker
Eric Burger wrote: Here is an interesting optimization problem: it turns out the most polluting part of a conference is people taking jets to fly to the conference. Minimize that and the planet wins. Favors hub cities over spokes, like San Diego or Prague, where you can't get there from

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Eric Burger
lemonade is. - Original Message - From: Stewart Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Burger Cc: ietf@ietf.org ietf@ietf.org Sent: Fri Oct 12 07:59:42 2007 Subject: Re: Travel Considerations Eric Burger wrote: See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5847/36.pdf Which seems to be only

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Stewart Bryant
Eric Burger wrote: See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5847/36.pdf Which seems to be only available to those prepared to pay. Stewart ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Eric Gray
12, 2007 3:18 PM To: Dan Harkins; Eric Burger Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Travel Considerations Unfortunately, using this logic -- I can buy a tank and get 2 gallons-to-the-mile mileage because the rest of the planet (or at least America) is still buying SUVs that get horrible mileage

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread James M. Polk
Unfortunately, using this logic -- I can buy a tank and get 2 gallons-to-the-mile mileage because the rest of the planet (or at least America) is still buying SUVs that get horrible mileage too, since there will be nearly an unmeasurable difference to global warming if I drive my tank or

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/12/07 3:31 PM, Eric Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time out for station identification; this is the Internet Engineering Task Force. I tend to think of it as at least in part an engineering question. Obvious questions about tradeoffs and whatnot, and then the question of engineering for

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Dan Harkins
Hi James, I think you're missing the point. I'm not advocating being wasteful because everyone else is. I'm saying that this effort is futile and will not result in _any_ win for the planet. Your analogy to driving an SUV is incorrect because not driving the SUV (or driving an electric car

RE: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
: Re: Travel Considerations Hi James, I think you're missing the point. I'm not advocating being wasteful because everyone else is. I'm saying that this effort is futile and will not result in _any_ win for the planet. Your analogy to driving an SUV is incorrect because not driving

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Clint Chaplin
, October 12, 2007 5:03 PM To: James M. Polk Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Travel Considerations Hi James, I think you're missing the point. I'm not advocating being wasteful because everyone else is. I'm saying that this effort is futile and will not result in _any_ win

RE: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread michael.dillon
Here is an interesting optimization problem: it turns out the most polluting part of a conference is people taking jets to fly to the conference. Minimize that and the planet wins. Simple solution. Only allow people to attend if they take a train or bus to the conference. Enforce this by

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mr Chairman, I have a suggestion. I suggest that we have a BOF at the next IETF on heat transfer issues, and subsequently open a working group. It can deal with this issue right after it solves the leakage current problem in fine lithography

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I asked James this privately, but if we're going to get into an off- topic discussion of global warming, I'll ask it publicly to whoever has a good answer. We all agree that global warming is happening. If you go to the terminal moraine, the