On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Carsten Bormann wrote: > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-termroom-op-07.txt > > ... which contains surprisingly little information about radio network > planning. > This has been wrong on most IETF Monday mornings, and tends to get > fixed slowly during the week. even if you've done it before it's still very hard to just guess where people will sit and which ap's will overload as a result... > How are the lessons learned relayed to the next team? typically there are meeting involving the current team and the future teams during the ietf meeting. in the case of this meeting members from the two immediatly preceeding meeting were also part of the noc staff. > It would help to collect frequency/transmit power plans, site survey > techniques, fixed network designs etc. for the next IETF. > As long as wireless networks for large crowds remain difficult, a quick > summary report from the NOC team every day would also instill some > confidence... > > Also, there should be a web page where participants can learn how to > configure their boxes, e.g. switch off ad-hoc network creation on Macs > etc. see: http://srv0.ietf55.ops.ietf.org/ietf55/NetworkTerminal#WirelessSupport > (And yes, I know I should be contributing more instead of just asking > for contributions. > But then, my experience is with physically larger networks with more > distributed crowds. > The people with the IETF NOC experience need to write it up.) > > Gruesse, Carsten > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"