Umm, maybe someone needs to explain to you the existence of the "bad-attitude" jabber room. Some of us are silently wondering if this may be the one plenary where "Bar BOF" takes on a new meaning. Perhaps we could have the proceedings projected on a giant sports-bar-like screen and "jabber" away vocally instead? :-) Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Yaakov Stein wrote: > > > During the IESG/IAOC Plenary at IETF 71, we are going to turn off IPv4 > support on the IETF network > > for 30 to 60 minutes. We will encourage the audience to use the > Internet and determine which services > > that they have come to take for granted remain available. > > Is there an assumption here that no-one is listening to the plenary > presentations anyway? > > I sure wouldn't want to be showing slides when everyone is trying > to get their connectivity up. In fact, the shouting back and forth > of solutions to various problems will probably drown out the mike. > > Why don't we dedicate a separate 2 hour plenary just to this experiment > with the moderator announcing workarounds and collected statistics ? > > Y(J)S > k _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf