Re: [77attendees] terminal room

Ed Jankiewicz <edward.jankiewicz@sri.com> Tue, 30 March 2010 22:31 UTC

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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:
>
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>> 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.
>>     
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> I saw _plenty_ of terminals provided in that room.  They were
> terminations for electrical power and ethernet cables...
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