IETF dress code(tools.ietf.org)
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IETF dress code
http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=fyi17#section-4.4
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Cute implementation of a "silent" ballot, but loud hummers get a disproportionate vote.
For those wondering, "There are those in the IETF who refuse to wear anything other than suits. Fortunately, they are well known (for other reasons) so they are forgiven this particular idiosyncrasy." is a reference to Vint Cerf. Though I did see Vint in a tracksuit once...
I hope it was a three-piece tracksuit, at least. Does Juicy Couture make vests??
I love the way the IETF is still issuing reports formatted for ancient mainframe line printers, with hard-coded headers and footers and whatnot.
Think of it as future-proofing their documents.
Paper has two advantages: it keeps carbon from becoming a greenhouse gas and quite probably outlasts all our other backup mediums.
Paper has two advantages: it keeps carbon from becoming a greenhouse gas and quite probably outlasts all our other backup mediums.
Except clay tablets and this: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
Ugh! Nasty crash on their website; http://staging.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-mic...
"You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page."
"You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page."
seems they linked to their staging site (publicly accessible!!) by accident. Same page without staging subdomain:
http://www.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-micro-e...
http://www.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-micro-e...
The RFCS are all in this format, and since this provides some continuity across the whole set, I'm all for continuing in this way.
Think about what would happen if they made them all spiffy pdfs and then some guy 20 years from now would try to read them.
ASCII is forever, and having a page header on every page is relatively cheap, and helps to keep the context of which document you're looking at clear, the header is never more than 1/2 a page away.
It's quite hard to make a scrolling window with a steady header on a piece of paper ;)
Think about what would happen if they made them all spiffy pdfs and then some guy 20 years from now would try to read them.
ASCII is forever, and having a page header on every page is relatively cheap, and helps to keep the context of which document you're looking at clear, the header is never more than 1/2 a page away.
It's quite hard to make a scrolling window with a steady header on a piece of paper ;)
Given professional workplace without a dress code/ uniform it is interesting to see the large variation in what people decide to wear. From shit pants and nice shoes down to t-shirt shorts and runners.
Never saw this before. Thanks for sharing.
Thank George (really nice guy who tweets mostly in Portuguese): http://twitter.com/georgeguimaraes/statuses/8705110867
I never imagined IETF issued memos with dress code...
I never imagined IETF issued memos with dress code...
fucking fascists!
You're right! Fornicating with Nazis is not allowed!
What is humming for consensus you ask? Well, rather than a show of hands, when deciding on measures and proposals they simply ask the room to hum in favor of a measure.
The reason is simply that even if you are sitting next to your boss it will still be possible for you to vote according to your conscience as it's virtually impossible to distinguish the direction of humming in a room of a hundred or so people. It is, however, easy to tell if a measure has the majority support of a group via humming.
It's very geeky and very smart. Very IETF.