RE: a simple solution to the room crowding problem...

["Mitch Denny" <warbyte at ezymail.com>]

Intresting concept, maybe we should all wear
purple robes with gold belts and speak in an
ancient dialect (spl???).

Actually, quite seriously, its not a bad idea,
a little crude, but some sort of qualification
such as reading elementary docs would be a good
prerequisite.

Flame me not, we are all after a solution, I
don't know that this is it, and it really goes
against alot I stand for, but I guess we could
look at it like a course at university, where
the student (in this case participants) must
have a basic level of understanding.

After all, if you don't have some level of
interest/understanding you wouldn't want to
go to a boring workgroup where you couldn't
participate anyway.

Cheers,

Mitch Denny
warbyte at ezymail.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Rose [mailto:mrose at dbc.mtview.ca.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 07:51
> To: ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: a simple solution to the room crowding problem...
> 
> 
> well, at the risk of being re-branded a ne'er do well, i have a simple
> suggestion to the meeting room problem.
> 
> first, let's see if we can agree that, in general, the problem is with
> working groups and not bofs.
> if so:
> 
> require that every working group publish at least one I-D prior to the
> meeting. in that I-D put a password, e.g., "swordfish". the 
> password should
> be buried in the middle of a big paragraph of text somewhere, e.g.,
> "big-endian, blah, blah, blah ... and the password is swordfish 
> (don't tell
> anyone, eh?) blah, blah, blah little-endian."
> 
> at the meeting, have a monitor stand at the door asking for the 
> password. no
> password? have the monitor give them a hard copy of the I-D with
> instructions to read it cover to cover and then come back.
> 
> /mtr
> 
>