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[vijay gill]

On 2/24/08, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:

On Feb 24, 2008, at 4:19 AM, vijay gill wrote:

> I would like the voice my support for the peering bof, it is by far
> the most entertaining item at nanog. You cannot see this much level
> of fail in one place, and for this reason alone, not only should it
> continue, the hours should be expanded to cover a full day.

Would you mind expanding upon "You cannot see this much level of fail
in one place"?  (I'm not even sure that sentence is English.)

My feeling is that you were being sarcastic, trying to imply the
peering BoF is full of people who are failing, but it's hard to be
certain in this communications medium.

If you do not like the Peering BoF, perhaps you could make your
reasons more clear?  If you like the Peering BoF, sorry I have
misinterpreted you.

I love the peering bof, it should be expanded. Let me give my reasons why.

I am making an assertion, feel free to correct them if you or anyone else disagrees.
1) The most useful part of typical internet ops related conferences are not the sessions, but the bar bofs, corridor talks, face to face conversations in a fairly unstructured environment.

The peering bof is a great medium for facilitating intercommunication in a semi structured environment, interactivity is high, and frankly, the peering bof is one of the large unstated reason I come to NANOG at all. Bill has been doing it for a while, he knows how to run it, it is useful and entertaining, a deadly combination. Some people get offended, and frankly, so what. I think thats actually useful, I come to nanog to learn and argue, not politely nod my head and clap when the talk is over.

Removing the BOF and or turning it into some sort of overtly structured environment would make it boring and not as useful, which is bad.

/vijay

--
TTFN,
patrick


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