At 09:51 PM 3/3/2004, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
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> <begin naive question>
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> Apart from the "eating our own dogfood" bit ...
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> Most other Internet events I attend, or follow remotely, use Real
> audio/video, or sometimes Windows Media Player.
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> Can anyone tell me if there are any TECHNICAL reasons why we can't
> do this for the IETF meetings?
how about economic and poltical...
In point of fact it has been done, either by reflecting sources to
unicast through real servers or by simply generating additional sources.
The resources to do this on an ongoing basis (namely transit) haven't been
forthcoming.
On the economic front, there have been offers, at least from me, to PAY for
remote attendance. Let's face it, I'd have been happy to pay $500 to have
access to all WG sessions and plenaries via Real Player or other Unicast
mechanism in Seoul. There's just no way my company can afford the travel
expenses for me to personally travel to Korea.
The IETF should be interested in individuals, not just large corporations,
participating. What better way than to provide a way for individuals to
attend on their own budgets? If that means virtual attendance, then so be it.
Multicast is just not available to many of the folks who might otherwise
attend. I don't care what unicast mechanism is chosen, provided it allows a
wider crosssection of the community access to live participation in the
meetings.
joelja
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