<pinch of salt> I think it interesting that the great minds of the IETF are discussing in depth something that is probably just slightly more important than the outcome of this week's American Idol contest. Oh well, here are my two cents... Cookies seem to be a scarce resource, so why not bring your own darn cookies to the meeting, and you wouldn't have a problem. Seriously, stop by a local grocery store, and plop down $3 and buy whatever kind of cookies make you the most happy. Aggravation avoided. Plop down another $3 and you now have a resource you can use to coerce other people down your path of draft-ness. Need to get a draft approved by your AD? Give him/her a cookie. So if we want to go with the whole ticket route, I say as the IETF, that we go for the whole solution (watch as I open another can of worms)... Badges with barcodes. We get a badge with a barcode. Want a cookie, stand in line, scan the badge. Solves the problem of multiple cookies, just grab everyone's badge. Does it need a human? Nope, just a loud buzzer. Oh, and to give a nod to the TAO of the IETF (I think that's the document) you won't have people standing in front of the cookie table. Move those badge readers to the doors. You then make sure everyone has paid their IETF admittance fee for the meeting. Yep, there are people who use the same badge and just show up. You also eliminate the blue sheets too. No more signing your name, just swipe a badge. You can then use these statistics to see if many people tried to attend the same WG meeting to plan agendas for next year. Do I think cookies are an important problem? Nope. Do I think we should get scanned badges for cookies, and meeting room admittance? Probably not, but I think it would be cool. Do I care when I have dinner? Nope, I either bring my own snack, or I just tough it out like the Internet Nerd Pioneer I one day hope to become. Cheers --Brett </pinch> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf