Re: IETF65 hotel location

On Friday, January 27, 2006 02:26:26 PM -0600 Spencer Dawkins 
<spencer@mcsr-labs.org> wrote:

> Hi, Mike,
>
>>> If we could morph it into a signup system that distributed people
>>> according to restauant capacity and avoided the problem that someone
>>> says "I hear there's a burrito place on X street" and a herd of 300
>>> IETFers shows up there, since they don't know any other places to go,
>>> then you'd really have something.
>>
>> I'm afraid it's beyond IETF's expertise to come up with
>> distributed burrito processing protocols.
>>
>> Mike
>
> If you think about this for a minute, you would realize that (1) we not
> only have protocols for this, but we have running code, and (2) "too much
> focus on distributed burrito processing" might explain a lot about where
> we are and how we got here! :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Spencer, who is wondering what a "dining protocol designers" multitasking
> algorithm might look like, with a burrito between every pair of protocol
> designers (with apologies to the dining philosophers)

Ah, but this is not that big a problem, because unlike forks, burritos are 
dual-ported.

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