The registration database for each IETF meeting already contains email
addresses of all attendees, presumably a superset of the blue-sheet
signers.
More technologically-advanced conferences and trade-shows use RFID or
(a few years ago) mag stripes to avoid deciphering handwriting. The
per-card cost is modest and since there are a lot of repeat attendees,
we all just need our IETF "frequent flyer card". We used something
like that for speaker identification at the microphone at ACM
Multimedia 2004; the microphone had a BlueTooth-enabled RFID reader
that transmitted the code to a data gathering host, which then
displayed name and affiliation on a screen. The range of the card was
a few inches.
Henning
On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Mr Kim Sanders wrote:
- If there were a database with everyone on file .
- If each person were assigned a permanent identity code .
- If block l(i.e. disconnected) letters were required .
- If persons designated as having legible handwriting wrote
everything but
the signature .
/Kim
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