On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Carsten Bormann wrote:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-termroom-op-07.txt
... which contains surprisingly little information about radio network
planning.
This has been wrong on most IETF Monday mornings, and tends to get
fixed slowly during the week.
even if you've done it before it's still very hard to just guess where
people will sit and which ap's will overload as a result...
How are the lessons learned relayed to the next team?
typically there are meeting involving the current team and the future
teams during the ietf meeting. in the case of this meeting members from
the two immediatly preceeding meeting were also part of the noc staff.
It would help to collect frequency/transmit power plans, site survey
techniques, fixed network designs etc. for the next IETF.
As long as wireless networks for large crowds remain difficult, a quick
summary report from the NOC team every day would also instill some
confidence...
Also, there should be a web page where participants can learn how to
configure their boxes, e.g. switch off ad-hoc network creation on Macs
etc.
see:
http://srv0.ietf55.ops.ietf.org/ietf55/NetworkTerminal#WirelessSupport
(And yes, I know I should be contributing more instead of just asking
for contributions.
But then, my experience is with physically larger networks with more
distributed crowds.
The people with the IETF NOC experience need to write it up.)
Gruesse, Carsten
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