Re: [106attendees] Power strips ?

Then you have not counted the NUMBER of strips deployed!  :-)

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> On 21 Nov 2019, at 18:01, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 05:06:01PM +0800, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
>> The universal power strips are both legal and common in most of Asia. The ???best??? ones have a power tail plugin for the part that goes to the wall, so you carry the strip plus local power cable. We got a bunch of these for APRICOT years ago and shipped them from venue to venue along with our routers an WiFi kit.
>> 
>> But, honestly, personal one-port adapters work just fine. I don???t really see a need to
>> burden the secretariat with more stuff.
> 
> I was hope we could simply attach them to the network gear shipment,
> where they shoud be a minor part and then let whoever installs the
> power-strips into meeing rooms these day use those poewr strips.
> Aka: this shouldn't involve secretariat.
> 
> Cheers
>    Toerless
> 
>> These adapters (UK version shown) are my personal favorites. They have a universal ???face??? and localized plug PLUS a splitter for US/EU:
>> 
>> AC POWER TRAVEL ADAPTER PLUG FOR UNITED KINGDOM UK ENGLAND IRELAND SCOTLAND MALAYSIA HONG KONG / WITH DUAL PLUG-IN PORTS AND SURGE PROTECTION / GROUNDED
>> 
>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00349OSOS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GkL1Db3C8WQ7V
>> 
>> 
>> Ole J. Jacobsen
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>>>> On 21 Nov 2019, at 15:15, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ???
>>>> 
>>>> I suspect venue isn???t going to allow power strips that aren???t approved in their country.
>>>> Too much legal and safety risks for them.
>>>> 
>>>> To me this would create a lot  of complexity and cost for the secretariat and the IETF.
>>>> Not really warranted.  My plug adapters work fine.
>>> 
>>> As I noted, ICANN does it, and it works.  We could find out from them
>>> what sorts of costs and approvals are involved, but they don't seem to
>>> have problems with their not being allowed.
>>> 
>>> Barry
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