Re: [77attendees] terminal room

David Borman <david.borman@windriver.com> Wed, 31 March 2010 00:05 UTC

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Yes, you can't forget the heritage!  Another example is that the TLA for the Transport Area is "TSV".
			-David Borman

On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Ed Jankiewicz 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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