Bill plays Mozart to summon the participants into the meeting hall to start the meeting.
Bill went skiing at Taos. While on the mogul, he went up in the air and landed on his back. While waiting for medical assistance he heard a couple of jokes: Did you know that Kennedy and Bono where going to be in a comedy this fall on TV? It's going to be called Tree's Company.
There are couple of others I won't repeat.
Merit surveyed the participants for more input into the agenda. Folks wanted to see more on multihoming and BGP. Folks also wanted to have more socials. There will be two different things. The Multi-Vendor room will have one table for each vendor. After attempting to explain the nature of the NANOG meeting (technical, not a show like InterOp), Bill asks if the group thinks that a good rule for the future is to not permit a vendor to participate in the Multi-Vendor room unless they have previously been at a NANOG meeting.
This meeting is being recorded by the Real Broadcast Network and Bill wants feedback on effectiveness of this effort.
The host this time is IHIGHWAY (and others). Networks did the install of the cabling in the room. Brooks Fiber installed the T-1. Southwest Cyberport provided some hubs. New Mexico Technet is providing the terminal room. Critical Path covered the cost of the break food. BayNetworks provided the hubs in the room.
Folks need to make use of the microphone for asking questions. Presenters need to stay in the stage area to insure they will be be on the video.
The terminal room is open from 8am to 10pm. The hotel will open it during off hours if you need get in.
Get your lunch tickets.
From the last NANOG, the survey says that the overall reaction was that the program was Good/Excellent.
There is now a new posting policy on NANOG list. It appears to work.
There are 515 folks registered. This is the largest atendence to date.
The largest groups coming are the ISPs and the hardware vendors.
Based on domain name, there is an increasingly large group from Japan.
There are a large number of folks from counties of than those in North America. Folks are hear from the UK and South Africa.
There appear to be lots of folks from the East and West Coast. There are a large number folks from California. Half of them are ISPs and Half are others.
The price per cookie at this meeting is $1.50. This is considerably less than it was in San Francisco. Bill says "What you measure, you manage."
Bill thanks John Brown and his partners for making this happen.