Re: meeting network

[JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>]

On 10/10/11 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT 
> departments in question ahead of time so that they have some remote chance of being prepared.

I tried this approach many years ago, for a Blogher conference.  The 
hotel's IT people were uncooperative, and incompetent, and they lied 
both about their network design and their equipment capabilities.  I 
have since learned that this is par for the course.  IMHO the only way 
to solve this problem is with big $$$ penalties in the contract, big 
enough that the incompetent IT people realize their jobs are on the line 
and relinquish control so experts can get access and set-up things properly.

Also note - the conference or hotel's IT people will always claim they 
have "done this before with no problems" even when they haven't.

jc