Re: the ancient location question, was IETF-91 Question

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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