Speaking of Standards

If you want to get a sense of what an IETF meeting is all about, I’ve now uploaded a set of photos from the recent IETF 71 meeting in Philadelphia.

If you get the sense that we spent a lot of time sitting in chairs… you would be correct! It’s all about chairs, hallway conversations and, of course, (for those of us with no aversion to speaking publicly) the microphone! (Unless, that is, someone relocates the mic.

IETF meetings also naturally involve a whole lot of email, even while we are there at the meeting. Given that we had a very solid wireless network (even if access points were sometimes on chairs) and we also had a 100 Gbps (yes, you read that correctly - 100 Gigabits per second!) connection to the Internet via Comcast you’ll notice that basically every picture has a very high density of laptops. If there were 1300 people at the meeting, probably 1295 of the attendees had a laptop there with them.

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