Re: [86attendees] How I know I am an IETFer

Brilliant :D

On 3/15/13 4:11 PM, Tal Mizrahi wrote:
>
> In the spirit of the last day of IETF 86, I was sitting in the Orlando
> airport and thinking about the IETF culture.
>
> Indeed, "The Tao of IETF" does a good job of capturing the essence of
> the IETF, but I was trying to find a minimal set of attributes that
> characterize an IETFer, and here is what I came up with.
>
>  
>
> Q: How do I know I am an IETFer?
>
> A: If I comply to at least 5 of the following conditions, I must be an
> IETFer.
>
> -          My idea of "business casual" is a pair of jeans and an IETF
> T-shirt from the previous decade.
>
> -          I have at least 2 of the following features: long hair,
> facial hair, nose hair, ear hair, receding hairline, glasses, "new
> attendee" badge.
>
> -          I have never heard of Microsoft Word. I use vi.
>
> -          I believe in keeping the internet free, but I have the most
> expensive broadband connection that money can buy.
>
> -          I believe the words MUST, SHOULD and MAY must be written in
> uppercase. I believe my previous sentence has a typo.
>
> -          I use IPv6.
>
> -          I like to book all my trips at least 3 months in advance,
> including airline tickets, train tickets, toll pass, local currency,
> local SIM card, dinner plans, lunch plans.
>
> -          Around 3 pm I get a craving for 6" cookies.
>
> -          When my kids argue with me I tell them "let's take it to
> the mailing list".
>
> -          I use Jabber.
>
> -          When I eat ice-cream I call it an ice-cream BOF.
>
> -          I like sitting in a room full of >100 engineers and reading
> my emails. I call it a working group meeting.
>
> -          When I have a drink with a couple of friends I call it a
> bar BOF.
>
> -          When I hold a meeting after 8pm I call it a bar BOF.
>
> -          I celebrate PI day.
>
> -          I have never heard of Microsoft Visio. I am a master of
> ASCII art.
>
> -          When someone asks me if the Wi-Fi reception is good, I
> answer with the average bandwidth, average delay, delay variation and
> packet loss rate.
>
> -          I am not sure what the IRTF is. I think it's a typo.
>
> -          When I hear the word "vote", the word hmmmm comes to mind.
>
> -          When people ask me "are you going to a conference?", I
> answer: "no, I am going to an IETF meeting".
>
> -          I believe most of the problems in the middle east can be
> solved by rough consensus and running code.
>
> -          I think Linux is the best.
>
> -          When I check into a hotel I contact the IT team to help
> them improve the performance of the hotel network.
>
>  
>
> See you in Berlin!
>
> Tal.
>
>  
>
>
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