Welcome to Tampa.
Bill saw Flamingos and he thought it was beautiful and breathtaking.
Once again, NANOG starts with one of Bill's jokes. There is an elephant drinking besides an African turtle and he kicked it across the river. A giraffe asked, "Why he did that?" The elephant said that he remembered the turtle as being the same one that took a bite out of his trunk 50 years ago. The giraffe said that he was amazed that the elephant remembered that. The elephant said modestly "Turtle Recall."
Bill said that he was able to participate in a recent meeting of RIPE in Dublin, Ireland.
Bill puts up a chart that compares RIPE, IETF and NANOG. Suits are discouraged and meetings tend to move from place to place. Bill suggested that the meeting might happen in Canada or Hawaii. All the meetings tend to have local hosts. At this meeting, the host is IBM Global Networking. Both RIPE and NANOG have loose organization, IETF is more formal. RIPE does have working groups, which NANOG has not yet done. The three groups have different tribal chants. At RIPE, folks knock on tables, at IETF, people hum. At NANOG, people clap. Sean Doran is working in Europe now. Barney, the Purple Dinosaur, was visiting Dublin at the same time.
Dimitri from IBM speaks about logistics. Advantis has been fully acquired by IBM and will be fully assimilated by IBM Global Services. Dimitri introduces the rest of his team. Dimitri is supposed to be mailing me the names, which I will include here.
IBM will provide all the lunch and break food. The lunch is limited to the first 250 people. You will need to get a ticket. Tickets ran out this morning, but there will be more made. There will be two receptions. The first one is hosted by InterMedia Communications. The second one is hosted by Cassopia Systems. The wireless group is on one side and hardwire is available on the other side.
There is a terminal room. There is a T-1 to Atlanta connected to this location. The room will be open as much as possible.
Bill is back. He puts up a slide about the demographics.
We have the first integrators and content providers at this meeting. There is a drop since last meeting in R&E attendance. ISPs are still the biggest group and continues to grow the fastest.
Bill then reviews the origins of NANOG. He brings that up specifically because of the increased noise level on the NANOG list. He is now presenting a slide on a draft AUP for the list suggested by the NANOG Program Committee. He wants to know how people feel about that. These comments will be used to refine the AUP and then implement it.
Bill then discusses the Survey Form. Please fill it out and let us know what you think.
Bill discusses the Open Issues Forum part of the meeting tomorrow afternoon. If there are topics that folks need to get on the floor, then that's the time to do it. One topic that will be discussed will be the AUP for the mailing list.
There will be a repeat of the tools demo at around 4:30pm today.