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Imagine that you are sitting in a very large room. It’s a hotel ballroom, with a grandiose name like Regency or Continental. It’s a square box with plain walls and no windows. The ceiling is high, three metres above you. There’s little decoration, the colours are neutral, and the double wooden doors at the back are only impressive when viewed from a distance. There’s an annoying background of air-conditioning noise, but the lighting isn’t harsh. There’s a generic, characterless carpet.
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SIPPING and SIMPLE are the acronyms for two working groups, and BOF means a ‘birds of a feather’ meeting.
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Carpenter, B.E. (2013). Hey Folks!. In: Network Geeks. Copernicus, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5025-1_1
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