On 3/24/08, Brian Dickson <briand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Gray wrote: > > > This sort of scheduling problem is very well known > > to be NP hard and trying to meet the scheduling conflict > > matrix for 1500 to 2500 people would make the "N" large. > > > > > Universities have been doing this successfully for class scheduling for > many years > with great success. I would not necessarily classify it as "hard". > Define "successfully". Having been locked out of more than one course because of scheduling conflicts, I would suggest that "successfully" to the university may not be perceived as "successfully" to the students. Which, come to think of it, is the same position IETF finds itself in: replace "university" with "IETF" and "students" with "attendees". -- Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin Principal Engineer Corporate Standardization (US) SISA _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf