--On Monday, January 03, 2011 10:49 -0500 "Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... > Whereas the NYT article seems to be describing large rooms > full of journalists and other technology illiterates, many of > whom are trying to send or receive streaming video, sometimes > the video of the presenter they are sitting in front of! And it seems to me that summarizes a small disconnect we've developed from the problem that caused the article. It seems to me that the Times article claims that 802.11 (all flavors, but especially b/g/n) are designed exclusively for home use. I believe that is just false. They also suggest that meetings full of "technology illiterates", implicitly using hotel setups with maybe one higher-powered beacon per room, don't work very well. Judging from the discussion on this list, our reaction to the above is "well duh" and "we (one of the most technically-sophisticated communities around) know how to solve these problems and the solutions start with showing up with our equipment and configuring the network our way and move on to specialized laptop configurations". That is very interesting. It is probably also very irrelevant. Getting what we do written down and more widely available --as a BCP or otherwise-- would be, IMO, a good idea, but it would not help one bit with the problems that, it seems to me, inspired the NYT article. It seems to me that the NYT article is something that the WiFi Forum ought to be addressing, especially if their vendor-members want to continue to sell products into conference markets. We could offer to supply them our notes if they would be helpful and I'm certain that there are people in our community who could alert them to the article in the unlikely event that they aren't thinking about it already. But, if this discussion is any indication, I don't think there is much of a role for the IETF itself in the issues and for the audience to which the NYT article is addressed. just my opinion, john _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf