At 7:54 PM -0700 8/19/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
listening in on this conversation, it seems to me that Marshall is talking
about "conferencing" in a sense which includes a lot of different mechanisms,
the premier one being instant messaging, while Jon (and the XCON charter)
speaks about "conferencing" in a sense that starts out assuming that voice is
included, and that video is the logical next step, while conferencing based on
IM, if thought of at all, is regarded as a small side issue.
I don't know how to add markers to the charter to make it obvious how the word
"conferencing" is intended here, however. And it may not even make the issue
go away.
In the context of audio and video conferencing why not add those
words to the description...we've been here before (~10 years ago
with the remconf BOF and its spinoffs).
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