Re: Terminal room at IETF74

[Alexa Morris <amorris at amsl.com>]

Christopher,

Actually, the Terminal Room will have two laptops set up for attendee  
use; these are traditionally used primarily for printing (boarding  
passes, etc) but are available for other uses as well.

Regards,
Alexa

On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:04 AM, 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.
>
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