I have been receiving questions about the IETF 64 Social, planned for Tuesday evening November 8th. This message contains a mini-FAQ on the recurring themes. Regards, and FYI ... Ed Juskevicius edj@xxxxxxxxxx - - - - - START - - - - - 1) NOW THAT IETF PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED, DO I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IETF 64 TO BUY A TICKET FOR THE SOCIAL? No. Social tickets may still be purchased on-line (until 11h00 PST on Sunday November 6th) at https://www.meetinghq.com/group/101004751?wslid=nortel_ietf2005social Tickets will also be available for purchase in Vancouver, until they are all sold. 2) THE SOCIAL BEGINS AT 19h30. THE IETF 64 AGENDA HAS MEETINGS UNTIL 19h50 ON NOVEMBER 8th. WHY IS THERE AN OVERLAP? The Social team assumed the agenda for IETF 64 would be like all previous North American meetings. We thought all sessions would be finished by 18h00 on Tuesday, so it would be OK to organize a Social on Tuesday evening. When the first draft IETF agenda was published (two weeks ago), we discovered a potential overlap with the last two "afternoon" sessions on Tuesday. This resulted in a redesign of the Social which reduced the overlap with the IETF schedule. Given the late date, there was no way to completely eliminate all overlap without canceling the event completely. 3) WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO MITIGATE THE OVERLAP? The start and end of the Social will be 1/2 hour later than originally planned, and the bus schedule will be adjusted accordingly. As a result, there is no overlap with "1740-1840 Afternoon Session III", and the overlap with the last session of the day has been reduced. 4) WHAT IF MY LAST IETF SESSION ON TUESDAY IS "1740-1840 Afternoon Session III"? You may take an early bus to the Social. The first bus will leave from the Westin Bayshore hotel at 19h00. 5) CAN I STILL ATTEND THE SOCIAL IF I ATTEND "1850-1950 Afternoon Session IV"? Yes. Buses will continue to run from the Westin Bayshore to the Social until at least 20h30. 6) WILL FOOD STILL BE AVAILABLE IF I ARRIVE LATER (e.g. by 21h00)? Yes. Dinner will be served, buffet-style, from five different food stations until at least 21h30. 7) WHAT ABOUT THE MARINE BOFs? The schedule of BoFs at the Marine Science Centre has been reworked to correspond with people arriving at the Social throughout the evening. Most of the BoFs will run twice to accommodate both early and later arrivals. Please see the Social webpage for the revised BoF times and descriptions. - - - - - END - - - - - _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf