Re: participation in IETF meetings

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:

>         The challenge is that some folks clearly do use the wireless
> LAN to download I-Ds to review precise text during the meeting 
> discussing that particular I-D (in lieu of carrying paper around, 
> I suppose),

they can't prepare beforehand by downloading the entire draft tarball 
that is made available prior to travelling to the event? no doubt
they're online frantically trying to book a hotel room for the night,
too.


>         So maybe I'll settle for a general plea to folks attending 
> IETF meetings.  If one isn't going to actively participate in a given
> meeting,

don't go.

L.

> then please move out of that meeting room into the hallway 
> or some other venue so that folks interested in that particular 
> meeting have an unencumbered ability to participate.
> 
> Ran
> rja at inet.org

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