Re: Meeting in San Diego?

On 6-jul-04, at 22:49, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

> Yep, this is an unoffical group in every sense.

If you guys want to meet unofficially (I'm saying "you guys" as I'm not 
going to be there; one IETF-related trip to California per summer is 
enough for me) here are some tips:

- in order to obtain a meeting room properly, an AD has to approve
- during the lunch and dinner breaks the meeting rooms are mostly empty 
so a small gathering isn't likely to be kicked out, however, relatively 
few people show up as people tend to have other places to be and/or be 
hungry
- on sunday, this is much less an issue and the rooms are mostly empty 
too, early afternoon or even morning is a good time for an unnofficial 
meeting
- alternatively you can overlap with the regular meeting schedule as 
there are often times that nothing much of interest is going on, but 
then it's much harder to find a place
- make sure the directions are very clear and timely (not everyone 
reads their email every 5 minutes) and even them people will have 
trouble finding the place or group or show up late
- ietf-style agenda makes little sense but people want to know what a 
meeting is going to be about so they can decide whether it's worth 
their time

Good luck.