Of course, there is nothing stopping NANOG or anyone else from collocating their meetings to be near the IETF's (in time or space)... but right now they would have a tough time figuring where that would be :) The IETF commits to having its meetings not collide with certain other meetings, and dates are typically set some years in advance : http://www.ietf.org/meetings/0mtg-sites.txt Because of the recent reorganization, the IETF meetings are only specified through 2007, but this will shortly be extended for another few years. Once set, these date cannot be changed except for force majure. Recently IETF meetings have not been announced too long in advance (this summer's location is still officially TBD on this list, for example). I know that the IAD is scrambling to fill in the "where" part of this list into the future. Hopefully, in the near future the IAOC and the IAD will have meeting sites planned out 2 years or so in advance. Maybe, then, a collocation could be discussed. Regards Marshall Eubanks On Feb 14, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
So, NANOG has worked in the past (eg: ARIN) at joint meetings at a venue before, perhaps something similar would work.
I find it interesting that NANOG and IETF are both in Dallas about a month from each other and both parties likely navigated the logistics issues of connectivity, etc.. for these hotels for a slightly overlapping audience.
Do people think something like the NANOG-ARIN would work for NANOG-IETF? That might allow cross-breeding/ROI/whatnot and value to both communities.
- jared
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:17:46PM -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
I agree that attendance is not required, but it can help some discussions.
Given the logistical differences it would be much easier to schedule NANOG into a nearby hotel than to try to move the IETF around. For example this time if NANOG had been a month later it would have been in the same city yet different hotels. I understand that synchronized meetings it not trivial, but it is worth considering.
Tony
-----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:10 PM To: Tony Hain Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: protocols that don't meet the need...
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:35:19 PST, Tony Hain said:
Rather than sit back and complain about the results, why not try to synchronize meeting times. Not necessarily hotels, but within a reasonable distance of each other so the issue about ROI for the trip can be mitigated.
The IETF apparently has some major scheduling problems as it is, because there are very few venues that can handle the number of people that show up *and* have the right mix of large rooms and many smaller break-out rooms. Trying to get it into a hotel opposite a NANOG would just exacerbate the problem.
And there's nothing stopping NANOG types from joining an IETF working group and participating via e-mail - there's a large number of people who have contributed to the IETF process and never actually been sighted at an IETF meeting.
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