<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Jul 2017, at 11:01, Nigel Titley <<a href="mailto:nigel@titley.com" class="">nigel@titley.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">can we move on?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">With respect - no.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If it is OK to chat about coffee then it ought to be OK to chat about other things related to the meeting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It has already been pointed out that this meeting is atypical is several respects. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am intrigued by the requirement to supply a mini-CV. I am not clear where and when the bar-codes will be scanned. Any information there?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Using the Internet in this region though has been problematic in the past, both in terms of content (mostly the usual stuff) and services/protocols (again mostly the usual stuff). So it seemed worthwhile to talk about the current situation, of which I presume NCC are quite aware. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was good to get Brian’s reassurance that access to the meeting network would be as usual, and by implication there will be no restrictions towards the rest of the Internet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By way of putting some of this in some kind of perspective I mentioned two other meetings. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Stockholm I was not entirely comfortable with the use of RFIDs. Maybe I have been to too many IETF meetings?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Beijing I was struck by the “bucket” solution - I should have guessed that Randy was involved. But it met both the requirements of the local authorities and of the IETF crowd. I wonder which one was harder to please?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So probably still some questions. But I guess no rush. I hope nobody else will feel inhibited about writing though.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I sincerely hope Randy’s coffee needs are met!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gordon</div></body></html>