Re: [Netrqmts] IETF 105 Minutes

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

I didn't go to this BOF at the last minute due to a conflict.
thanks for the notes.  I haven't seen the slides or watched the video yet.

>   ???: To get my job done without a real network, I'd be three levels
>    deep in SSH tunnels. The question is how much this gets in the way.

+5.
I find that the most important thing that the IETF meeting (network) does for
people, is that it gives them an idea what a real end-to-end transparent
network *can* be like.  Suddenly things that never worked for them work.

>   Lars: We can overengineer the network.  We could provide less and we
>     would still have less.  The network is awesome.  We could scale
>     back a little.  Our bar is so high we exclude venues that might be
>     cheaper.  I can run certbot on a laptop and renew a cert.  Do I
>     need that?  Not really.

Until IPv6 is ubiquitously available in the guest rooms, I don't know how we
can do less.  I agree that we shouldn't have to do so much... but Bob Hinden is right!

If we are going to continue to make such investments, can we somehow do so in
a useful way?   Can we collaborate with the hotel to make changes that persist?  
This goes into returning to the same hotels regularly, and *is* a mtgvenue
discussion, not a netrqmts discussion.

I think that we should split up the discussion into perhaps four areas.

1) the L2/WiFi coverage of the meeting rooms for IETF participants

2) the availability of IPv6 in the guest rooms [I don't mind captive portals,
   *if* they follow our WG's specification...]
   
3) the availability and flexibility of the bandwidth in/out of the conference
   hotel(s).

4) the architectural requirements for good IPv6 and good meetecho experience
   within the venue.

I think that the document tries to do this, but I don't get the impression
the discussion split things up.

One could imagine a situation where the Meetecho network was a different
network from the Participant network.  I'm not saying that's a good plan, but
I'm saying that I think that we should think about whether we are expending
a lot of effort in one area for reasons that are relating to another area.

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