[156484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Tue Sep 18 19:55:32 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWzDy0TvNEjhahFv9GGWXcX126YRWAAT2ffikmVtK_iLw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:54:51 -0700
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> There were enough fans among the 600,000 folks in the Baltimore area
> but not enough an hour away among the 5,600,000 in the National
> Capital Region to justify hosting a Worldcon a couple miles inside the
> Virginia border where no unions would get in your way? Really?
Having grown up and started my career in Virginia, and much of my family =
still lives there, I can assure that that there isn't a single facility =
in Virginia capable of hosting a Worldcon. I think DC has another common =
problem, where it's either not big enough, or too big for something with =
only 7k attendees.
AND, Virginia has the exact same problem with hotel contracts. I was =
part of the convention running teams there in the late 80s and early 90s =
too. Same problems, same discussions. Same negotiations.
At this point I think at this point your "right to work" wishful =
thinking has been thoroughly debunked by others. Let's drop this topic.
To bring it back on topic, even if we didn't have unions to deal with, =
there's no law that can force a hotel or convention center to provide =
access to the facilities necessary for providing wifi or LTE access to =
the guests. You can only do that when you have negotiating power, and =
then you get back to "there's usually only one possible choice and they =
know it"
--=20
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
