Re: [77attendees] terminal room

Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com> Tue, 30 March 2010 22:35 UTC

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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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