Re: [72attendees] Clarifying Host Responsibilities (was Re: Guestroom Network not under NOC Control)

Ole Jacobsen <ole@cisco.com> Tue, 29 July 2008 16:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [72attendees] Clarifying Host Responsibilities (was Re: Guestroom Network not under NOC Control)
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And we also have consistent history which says that a hosted meeting 
is much easier on everyone involved (except the host :-) and that 
hosts typically want some say in where the meeting is held. If your 
headquarters is in say, Philadelphia, you can recruit a lot of 
"volunteers" and run back to the office and borrow a printer, hub, 
switch, paper ream, or what have you.

This works well, and while I agree that having a few "hub" locations 
would be good, I also know that it isn't easy to find a willing host
for a "repeating" location.

The new location syndrome also has good sides such as permitting more
participants from a given local region. I don't have the stats on how
many more people we have this time from the UK *and* Ireland, but I
bet you there is a significant increase.

Ole

Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> This is key.
> 
> As long as our model has us usually going to places one time, there can be no
> learning curve.
> 
> In spite of the considerable effort to get things right each time, actually
> achieving that will fail regularly.
> 
> The only way to get reliable performance of a meeting venue is to find a few
> that we like and keep going back.
> 
> As long as we make the first priority be to find a host and let the host
> choose a (new) venue, we will keep having venue problems.  We have 15+ years
> of consistent history on this score.
> 
> d/
> 
> -- 
> 
>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net
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