I find myself thinking that these are the most important things for wireless: 1. advertise up front that wireless is an experimental, not production, service. 2. make the wired network production quality. make sure that there are wires to all essential services (e.g. audiocast, chairs, presenter, jabber scribe), and make sure those wires are reserved for their intended uses. if the wireless network works well, so much the better. 3. NOC team really needs a visible bidirectional communications path to the users that doesn't rely on the network. I'm thinking in terms of a live person and a large white board in a highly visible location - say, near the message board. The white board should report what the NOC team thinks is the status of the network, summarize what is reliably known about the nature of the problems, and list known workarounds. The person needs to write down reports of problems and interact with users to try to precisely identify the conditions that produced the failure. The reason that this is needed is that rumor and exaggeration and idle speculation on the part of IETF attendees seem at least as damaging to the repuation of the network (and the host) as any equipment problems. Such rumor and exaggeration and idle speculation may even have an adverse operational impact, as users try to route around their perceived (and sometimes incorrect) perceptions of damage. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf