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I have worked with CSPAN before. They also expect the organization providing
the event to be willing to cover some of their costs. In DC, that may be zero,
but the question needs to be asked.

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At 11:35 AM 4/4/96 CST, Stan Barber wrote:
>I have worked with CSPAN before. They also expect the organization providing
>the event to be willing to cover some of their costs. In DC, that may be zero,
>but the question needs to be asked.

I didn't get the impression there was any cost involved here. They told me
that they look over the list of public interest events that are going on in
Washington, and the night before, they decide which event to tape/broadcast.
They don't give advanced warning that they are going to show up; you just
let them know the event is occuring. If it turns out that socks, the
whitehouse cat, has kittens, they probably won't show up ;-)

The compelling reason to let CSPAN know about the NANOG is that the
broadcast quality is likely to be *far* better than the MBone. We are in
Washington and someone is willing to broadcast it for free. This probably
won't happen again for a while.

Bill
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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Stan Barber wrote:

> I have worked with CSPAN before. They also expect the organization providing
> the event to be willing to cover some of their costs. In DC, that may be zero,
> but the question needs to be asked.

I say no. It is going over the mbone which is good enough for me.

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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, William B. Norton wrote:

> Since we are holding the next NANOG in Washington DC, I thought it might be
> interesting to see if CSPAN was interested in broadcasting it (a nice
> alternative/addition to the Mbone I think.) I contacted the CSPAN folks and
> they tell me that they usually don't decide what event to cover until the
> day before or so, but if we wanted to make this meeting open to the public
> (it is) and let them know the agenda, then they can consider it. Does this
> sound ok?

I think this would be a really good idea. It cuts right to the heart of
the PR and educational issues Matthew Dillon has been bringing up. Also
it is a bit easier for some of us to feed CSPAN into our VCRs than MBONE.
;)

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