On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:26:30AM -0500, Brett Thorson wrote:
10% of the community using a wireless NIC was operating in ad-hoc or AP mode
at some point during the meeting.
Would it be possible to publish a list of MAC addresses that were
operating in ad-hoc or AP mode? If all of the happened to come from a
signle manufacturer, that might be a very interesting data point. A
public "hall of shame" might be very useful. If we do detect a
pattern, perhaps a press release, "User friendly OS from company Xxxxx
disrupts Internet standards meeting" might get fast action to fix
buggy implementations!
If these volunteers didn't step forward, there would be no network.
Double or triple the meeting fees, it wouldn't cover the cost of >
suitable replacements for the talented volunteers or the hardware on
temporary loan. I've run those numbers, those are the facts.
And we definitely need to thank those volunteers! One question ---
did we do a public acknowledgement of the terminal and network
volunteers this time at the plenary? Maybe it happened on one of the
days when I arrived late to the plenary, but if it didn't, let me
express my thanks and kudos now. On a similar note, is there a way
that we can better acknowledge the efforts who worked so hard?
In addition, what kind of offers of help would be useful, as opposed
to just Getting In The Way? Is it more bodies? More equipment? More
diagnostic tools?
- Ted