On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
Are not service providers and network
managers the people supposed to bring these services into operation?
I certainly don't share that assumption. Then again, I don't share the
assumption that any central coordinating authority is needed to set up
conferencing services.
What do you mean by central coordinating authority? A big service
provider, or *any* point of control?
I am certainly interested in hearing requirements from the large
operators, but not to the exclusion of requirements for on my own
equipment, local, or community-hosted conference services.
XCON was envisioned as a way to handle "tightly-coupled conferences"
with a central point of control. However, there is no reason this
central point of control has to be hosted by a service provider. It
could be running in your phone or IM client for example.
I believe loosely-coupled conferences bring problems with a very
different timeline, and I do not wish to bog down XCON with these
problems. Indeed, I believe that much of the interest at the XCON BOF
was because we weren't trying to boil the ocean.
thanks,
-rohan