Hi Pat,
Thanks. My concerns is that do we have a plan for disaster
recovery/management in IETF or IEEE802. Including meetings which is the
important time we come together for. Usually now organisations are looking
into defining plans so the staff/participants are aware of procedures. I
was thinking if I was to go to any organisation these days I will ask is
there a plan and alternatives. Usually communication and information is the
key to a better solution per person or per organisation. As IETF and
IEEE802 standard communication technology then it is good if we have the
best practice in the world.
AB
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Pat Thaler <pthaler(_at_)broadcom(_dot_)com>
wrote:
One can't 100% protect against disruption from emergency situations. I'm
Vice Chair of IEEE 802 and there was a case where a venue became
unavailable due to a disaster. In that case it was enough before the
meeting that it worked as Bob described - the hotel chain worked with us to
identify and contract an acceptable alternative.
On the other hand, the tsunami hit Japan just before the IEEE 802
Singapore meeting - close enough to it that some folks were in the air on
the way to the meeting when it hit. Many attendees had travel disrupted and
arrived late. Some even were unable to attend due to problems getting an
alternative routing. Fortunately, enough were able to arrive so that we had
an effective meeting, but it was difficult. There are also cases where a
wide spread weather disruption has caused problems for meeting
effectiveness - e.g. a blizzard on the east coast of the USA.
Pat
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AB,
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- Is there an alternative venue if the venue was closed for any
emergency reason at any time? or only one plan so if the plan changes
there can be problems with the communities expected plan because they
were not aware of the needed information per time.
No, there is not an alternative venue under contract. It isn't practical
to have two venues under contract, build two networks, etc. It is
technically feasable, but would cause the registration fee to go up
significantly to cover the extra costs.
If there was, for example, a fire at a venue months before the the meeting
we would look for an alternate, but what happens would depend on
availability of alternative venues. We have good relationships with the
hotel chains we use and they would work very hard to find an alternative
venue, as would the effected venue.