Re: [77attendees] terminal room

Joerg Ott <jo@netlab.tkk.fi> Wed, 31 March 2010 05:42 UTC

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Sometimes, it is also useful to have a printer.  And I was involved
in several occasions when the terminal room was leveraged for interop
testing.

And, looking back, the terminal room got much more lightweight (less
equipment supplied) and smaller.  So, there is a useful adaptation
ongoing.

Joerg

Hui Deng wrote:
> terminal room is good for jetlag people who get up quite early would
> prefer stay there.
> 
> -Hui
> 
> 2010/3/31 Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>:
>> If we got rid of the Terminal Room, we would have to update RFC 4677!
>>
>> Actually, now might be the time, given there's an update in progress:
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-07>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ed Jankiewicz
>> <edward.jankiewicz@sri.com> wrote:
>>> Terminal Room is part of IETF heritage.  Calling it something else would be
>>> like renaming the RFC Series.
>>>
>>> This is an important source of entropy for newcomers.
>>>
>>> On 3/30/2010 5:18 PM, Tom Yu wrote:
>>>> David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Having a room with adequate open tables is a real plus. I've been to
>>>>> other
>>>>> confences with excellant wired access but insufficient space for just
>>>>> doing some work with power, printer access, someone there to help with
>>>>> connectivity issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure the name could change, but why bother. Everyone knows this just
>>>>> the BYOT area now, but in the end still a terminal room.
>>>>>
>>>> I saw _plenty_ of terminals provided in that room.  They were
>>>> terminations for electrical power and ethernet cables...
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