Re: [77attendees] terminal room

[Thomas Heide Clausen <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:

>> And, looking back, the terminal room got much more lightweight (less
>> equipment supplied) and smaller.  So, there is a useful adaptation
>> ongoing.
>
> Not entirely. While we clearly don't need rows of terminals, I regret
> the dropping to zero. Sometimes one is at an IETF meeting without a
> laptop for reasons outside one's control, and having one or two
> terminals
> in the terminal room would be useful.

+1

> (This last meeting I managed with a borrowed laptop

Now there's another revenue source for the IETF (something which seems  
to have become the favored discussion subject, replacing cookie-sizes  
and chocolate-chip-quantity, lately): on-site laptop-rental?

> and an iPhone - incidentally am I the first person to
> have taken the minutes of a WG on an iPhone?)

Can't speak to being "first", but having seen the minutes you took,  
Chris, it's even more spectacular that their quality seem to not have  
suffered from having been thumb-typed.....