At 10:08 AM 3/19/2013, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 08:22:46AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
"Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Haas <jhaas(_at_)pfrc(_dot_)org> writes:
Jeffrey> Such an exercise would probably generate a lot less
Jeffrey> controversy than my unsanctioned badge experiment.
Jeffrey> http://pfrc.org/~jhaas/pictures/badge.jpg
nice.
Instead of getting a new badge every meeting, maybe we should just get
an IETF86 dot on a badge we keep from meeting to meeting.
I didn't realize more people hadn't seen the badge. Since I've gotten a few
inquiries about it, here's the comments I'd had:
- Some people were upset that I was wearing an unofficial badge. None of
these were the people involved in giving them out. (My official badge was
in my laptop bag just in case.)
There's a long history of "martian" badges at the IETF. During the Stanford
IETF many many years ago, there were something like a dozen "Milo Medin" badges
(and I seem to remember at one point Milo was wearing none of them), as well as
badges where the older IETF logo had been replaced with various of the Klingon,
Federation and Romulan symbols from Star Trek.
- The company logo was definitely too big. I got the badge the morning
before I headed out for the conference and it was a bit late to ask Chris
to alter the design the minimize it. My preference would have been a bigger
IETF logo and smaller company logo. (Or "type treatment" as he'll tell
me.) Adding text to the blue dot would have been nice but wasn't thought
about after the fact.
- The biggest concern expressed by those seeing it was that how could one
tell that I've actually paid for the conference? As was pointed out by
multiple parties, a piece of paper isn't exactly good security if we
actually cared about that. :-)
To the best of my knowledge, Beijing was the only IETF meeting that ever had
anyone checking badges. And for the most part, the people who attend, pay.
And if they don't (due to say financial reversals) but still contribute, I'm ok
with that.
- Biggest comment from the people dispensing badges was that it's their job
to give out the dots. Since the dot, while removable by design, is part
of the badge this is somewhat problematic.
- Other comments are that the lanyards are far more of a validation that
you've been to registration than the piece of paper.
- This badge was apparently responsible for eating an hour of discussion
during an I* telechat. :-)
The badge is acrylic produced on a laser cutter with custom cut-out vinyl.
A big goal of the badge was to have something where the name was
significantly easier to view from a distance. However, I have a short name.
I had approached some people in ISOC about the possibility of permanent
badges as a fund raiser during the bits and bytes. I haven't really
followed up on it yet.
-- Jeff
