Re: participation in IETF meetings

[Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>]

Kastenholz, Frank wrote:

> At 09:49 AM 10/23/01 -0400, 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), or for other good purposes.  Legislating either way
> > on this seems unconstructive.
>
> People could just keep all the IDs on their laptops
> at all times.


I've been to too many WGs that say "the latest version of the ID, 
tweaked last night, is at the following website..." A tarball of
the ID directory is somewhat less useful for those :-)

There is often also supporting material which is determined only at the 
meeting, such as references, slides, etc. - chasing these down at the 
meetings has proved useful in the past.

Although there are irony points for holding an off-line networking 
meeting :-))

Joe