Expectations of support infrastructure change as technology evolves. In those days, we got along just fine without cell phones as well. Based on new technology our co-workers expect a level of internation not previously possible. We are also used to immediate access to reference material and as one person noted, they may take advantage of local laptop access to the presentation material to be able to read it. ... How things were done in the past really has little bearing on how we do then now. On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:45:24PM -0500, > John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 57 lines which said: > > > Between this and apparent efforts by the IAOC, IESG, and sponsor to > > deliberately disrupt the network, this is beginning to sound like > > the meeting to miss. > > I am not old enough to have personal experience of the oldest IETF > meetings but I've heard that there was no Internet connectivity at all > at these times and yet the IETF was able to work. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf