Craig, Can I respectfully ask that you pick a day OTHER than Monday for this activity, given that the following has been scheduled for several months already: http://www.yikes.com/~ole/store/poster.html The IETF social, is onsite this year, that's on TUESDAY night, so maybe you could do it then instead? Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher The Internet Protocol Journal Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@cisco.com URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Craig Partridge wrote: > > Most (all?) of us at IETF have had affiliations with companies that are > now defunct, ranging from working for them to simply accepting their > T-shirts at a conference. > > In a spirit of fun, I'd like to suggest that on Monday of the Yokohama > IETF you find some piece of attire (hat, shirt, shoes, socks, nightshirt, > temporary tattoo, whatever) with a dead company's logo or slogan on it and > wear it. > > As an incentive, I'll round up a couple of judges and at the hotel > bar at the start of the dinner break on Monday we'll give out a few > informal prizes (free beers) to some of the most notable pieces of > attire. By notable, I mean almost anything ranging from ironic > (e.g., if you come from the company most blamed for @Home's > demise and wear an @Home shirt), obscure (e.g., an expensive golf > shirt from a dead company no one's heard of), to just fun (e.g., > a paper-mache hat made of worthless stock certificates). > > See you in Yokohama! > > Craig > > E-mail: craig@aland.bbn.com or craig@bbn.com >