Jon Crowcroft wrote:
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ry Commission of Sri Lanka typed:
>>Why cannot IETF arrange Netmeeting sessions. So that all new techniques
>>such as Video, Audio, White board, Chat etc. can be used to exchange the
>>valuable knowledge members posses.
we do - we not only have put ietf WGs email in the public and archives
on the net and all docs on the web, but IETF meetings have some of the
main WGs live multicast out on the net
I wonder if we have any statistics available on how many people actually
tune in to the multicast sessions? Many network providers are presently
unable or unwilling to allow multicast into their networks. Last I
asked, this included ATT Broadband/MediaOne/Roadrunner, among many
others.
we don't use netmeeetign per se, coz its a specific technology, and
prefer to use somethign where the toolset is multiplatform and widely
avaialble - its done somewhat on a volunteer basis, so depends also
on what the volunteers are interested in and expert at....
it would be nice to
a) expand this
b) offer other formats (webcasting and netmeeting gateways)...
I've asked in the past, at plenary, and not gotten much of a response.
I've had to miss a few of the meetings in the past few years for various
reasons, and had hoped to participate, but the technology we use is just
not widely available. It may be widely available in academia, but our
participants come from a much broader spectrum.
I asked about this a few times, concerned that the volunteers who spend
so much time and effort creating the video from the sessions may be
sending that information out to a vanishingly small audience.
To ask it another way, when was the last time anyone heard a question
from the mbone attendees?
I've also raised the issue before that when I can't make it to a
meeting, I'd still like to pay a meeting attendance fee, and have that
money go toward the cost of providing the sessions via Real Audio/Video,
or other similar technologies which can operate across a broader array
of networks. Combined with some capability to email in questions during
a meeting, this would be useful to the active IETF participants who
can't make the trip to a particular meeting.
its up to you (i.e. anyone) to offer to do it as far as I am aware!
I'm offering dollars, when I'm not able to make it to the meetings. If I
pay a remote-attendance fee, that money obviously doesn't need to be
spent on food, so spending it on video collection, transmission and
redistribution seems like a good idea.
cheers
jon
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