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Fwd: Egypt as the next venue.

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Tue, 20 October 2020 21:35 UTC

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Subject: Fwd: Egypt as the next venue.
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Denial is a river in Egypt, where the next IETF f2f will be held.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 9:19 PM
Subject: RE: Egypt as the next venue.
To: Khaled Omar <eng.khaled.omar@outlook.com>, Joseph Touch <
touch@strayalpha.com>
Cc: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>


What a total non-sequitur. Bad bot, very bad.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khaled Omar <eng.khaled.omar@outlook.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 6:35 PM
> To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>; 'Joseph Touch' <touch@strayalpha.com>
> Cc: 'IETF Discussion' <ietf@ietf.org>
> Subject: RE: Egypt as the next venue.
>
> Yes, remember we have here a big number of restaurants that can handle all
> the IETFers during their stay here plus more tourists, so it is a fair
choice so you
> will never think to leave back home :-)
>
> As an Egyptian, it is better to recall the history of the meetings and
you will find
> out that none of the meetings held in Egypt before, so why not try as
proposed
> and enjoy and let others enjoy, if it will be a bad experience, don't
come again.
>
> Khaled Omar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Masinter <masinter@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Larry Masinter
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 3:25 AM
> To: 'Joseph Touch' <touch@strayalpha.com>; 'Khaled Omar'
> <eng.khaled.omar@outlook.com>
> Cc: 'IETF Discussion' <ietf@ietf.org>
> Subject: RE: Egypt as the next venue.
>
> How pleasant to while away dreaming of distant venues, lovely gluten-free
> dinners in nearby restaurants in Egypt or Aukland or somewhere else new.
>
> Unfortunately, there seems to be nowhere to discuss the contingency that
the
> soonest the 1-1-1 cadence can resume is "never". How does the IETF work
> without a plenary meeting? What if you call a meeting and nobody comes?
>
> How can the IETF function in a distributed fashion? What are the
difficulties and
> how can they be addressed? What are the problems with _those_ solutions?
>
> This is a bit of "protocol" engineering that no one will do for the IETF.
It's
> contingency planning, but the probability of the contingency isn't low.
>
> SHMOO is chartered explicitly to avoid the  cadence question.
> So GENDISPATCH? Really?
>
> Larry
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