For IETF 83, being held in Paris in March, the Secretariat held a t-shirt design contest. You can see the design submissions at http://www.ietf.org/meeting/83/t-shirt-design-contest-submissions.html. Just for fun, I decided to submit a drawing of the Eiffel Tower in the style of a network diagram.
The winner was announced yesterday at http://www.ietf.org/meeting/83/t-shirt-design-contest.html. Sadly, my design didn’t win. But the winner is very attractive. In fact I would have voted for it myself, if I hadn’t submitted my own design.
My t-shirt design was submission #5. Right before the contest deadline, another design was submitted that used my “Eiffel network diagram” along with the words from submission #2. The Secretariat was thoughtful enough to ask me for permission first, which I was happy to give. In hindsight, it may have been a poor idea – it probably split the vote… no way of really knowing without the raw numbers. But it’s probably better to not know. C’est la vie.
Contest aside, please feel free to use this graphic. I offer it under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Send me an email if you want a higher-resolution version.
And if anybody ever actually builds a network like this, I’d love to hear about it. I can’t imagine why any sane person would do such a thing, but who knows. 
