Re: Our deadlines are dizzyingly complex and confusing

[Lakshminath Dondeti <ldondeti at qualcomm.com>]

Just in case you are not familiar with AOE, it stands for Anywhere on 
Earth (See http://www.ieee802.org/16/aoe.html)

regards,
Lakshminath

On 11/26/2007 10:39 AM, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:
>  From my point of view, it can be any timezone as long as the cutoff 
> time is the same in all cases.  While we are on topic, I propose to use 
> AOE as defined by IEEE (I think 802.16).
>
> regards,
> Lakshminath
>
> On 11/26/2007 10:33 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> > > Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> > > > Laksminath's note is more detailed, but it's roughly what I was 
> > > > thinking
> > > > at about 2 PM EST today :-(
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure there's an opportunity for us to pick a time zone for IETF 71
> > > > cutoffs!
> > >
> > > you mean like UTC?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > OK, guilty. My point was that the cutoff time seemed to be "close of 
> > business, ET", and I was kinda hoping that whatever time we picked 
> > would be "close of business, a little further west" :-)
> >
> > ... especially if we were headed toward using the same cutoff TIME for 
> > all IETF cutoffs (BOF requests, WG meeting requests, registration, ID 
> > cutoffs, etc) ...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Spencer
> >
> > > I'd note that all the reference times in this message were in the same
> > > timezone just not at the same time. I submit that I really hate having
> > > to convert the offset from my current timezone in someone else's
> > > particularly when I can't remember when their daylight savings time
> > > begins or ends. however the challenge really is that they're not all in
> > > my calender rather than than that I need to calculate the offset because
> > > software will happily do that for me.
> > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Spencer 
>
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