On Aug 12, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Nico Williams <nico(_at_)cryptonector(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Legend has it that there was once a meeting in Hawaii, and nothing got
done. The beach and all that.
I was there. There was a meeting at the University of Honolulu, and as a
first-time IETFer, I walked away with two writing assignments and a working
group chair role. Inter-Domain Routing was discussed, we had the first meetings
of the Application and Security areas, SNMP MIBs were deeply discussed as a
to-do for the next meeting, and so on.
The amusing part of the story is that I attended one meeting out of the
previous IETF, at Stanford, and came home to tell my wife that I had a meeting
coming up in Honolulu and there was no point in her coming as she wouldn’t see
much of me. Her response: “oh, are we taking the kids?”. We did in fact take 2,
leaving 2 with a friend, and took a vacation after the meeting on Maui. There
was a dental convention on the island at the same time. My wife *still* talks
about taking the kids around the island and seeing people from the dental
convention, but nobody from the IETF all week.
The legend is inaccurate.
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