Re:reflections from the trenches of ietf62 wireless
2005-03-16 06:21:40
--On March 15, 2005 09:46:49 PM +0100 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
<jordi(_dot_)palet(_at_)consulintel(_dot_)es> wrote:
[...]
If the meetings are planned much more ahead, there will be more resources,
and even probably will not need for volunteers, because will be possible to
find a host.
I'll also have to dispute that a lack of planning was a significant factor in
the wireless difficulties. I've been involved in building every Minneapolis
IETF (44, 50, 53, 58, and now 62) and there have been differing qualities in
planning efforts. Except for the difficulty in getting base stations,
planning efforts this time were more than adequate in spite of the short lead
time available.
And no matter how far ahead one tries to plan, the secretariat is just not
always able to find sponsors, especially in the recent economic times.
In Minneapolis, because of the good hotel infrastructure built up over the
past few years and the extensive support with local individual volunteers and
organizations (University of Minnesota, Onvoy), it's pretty easy now to put a
network together here. The volunteer crew could easily put a reliable
production-quality net together with gigabit access and backup links on 6
weeks notice if necessary.
If we want a true guaranteed professional production network, then we will
have to contract that to an experienced outfit who can bring in their own
familiar equipment and give contractural accountability of service. So far,
we have not been willing to fund that, so, you get the best that individual
sponsors or groups of volunteers can do, and mostly, that's not bad.
The wired net and upstream systems were indeed professional and production
quality and did their job well. High-density, high-load radio stuff is just a
pain and maybe will always be; I don't know.
But it is interesting to note that at one time we were perfectly capable of
conducting productive working group meetings and created great bunches of
very good Internet protocols at them without large numbers of open laptops on
our knees. But, the world changes and I guess that's not possible any more.
--
Dennis Fazio
Local Green Dot
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