Re: Terminal room at IETF74

[Richard Barnes <rbarnes at bbn.com>]

Chris,

At recent IETFs, I've found it helpful to have a couple of machines in 
the terminal room.  Having machines that are pre-configured saved me the 
time of setting up my machine to work with the printers when I just 
wanted to quickly print out a draft during a break.

So it might be useful to keep one our two around, but I agree that no 
more are really necessary.

Thanks for the update,
--Richard


Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
> I believe this to be on-topic for this list based on the
> summary of on-topic subjects. However I don't see any
> similar subjects recently, so apologies if there is a
> batter place, and a pointer to it would be appreciated.
>
> I have had it confirmed by the secretariat that the terminal
> room at IETF 74 will not contain any machines, presumably
> just network connections.
>
> When I first attended an IETF meeting (IETF56) the terminal
> room contained several machines, sometimes barely enough.
> But over the years the number has declined, along I suspect
> with their usage. There have been machine-free terminal rooms
> in the past. As like most people I've brought a laptop, I
> haven't monitored the situation closely.
>
> But now, if I come to IETF74, I won't have a laptop with me.
> Corporate policy, based on recent US legal decisions, is that
> I may not take a laptop (or PDA etc.) into the USA. This is
> not subject to modification. Obviously even a machine in the
> terminal room would be a very poor second, but it seems even
> that is out.
>
> There are obviously broader issues regarding US meetings. But
> I will limit myself here to the narrower issue, and to simply
> bringing it to attention.