Stephen Farrell <stephen(_dot_)farrell(_at_)cs(_dot_)tcd(_dot_)ie> wrote:
I'm not in favour of a rigidly enforced single queue, virtual
or not.
Strawman alert! (Nobody's proposing that.)
I do support the idea that a remote participant can get in a
queue and not be endlessly gazumped by folks who are present.
With jabber and channelling that works ok today.
Well, no...
It's rare that a single jabber scribe accomplishes this well during
an entire session. I really don't want to badmouth any individuals,
but it's quite common that MIC requests don't get serviced until the
topic has changed.
We need to find a way to make it work with remote audio input...
We saw several sessions in IETF-93 where a remote participant was
given active status with video; and was treated like somebody standing
near the microphone. QED
What I do not want however is for chairs to lose the ability to
allow two or more folks to discuss a specific point when that's
the best way to get something resolved.
We have that -- and it works pretty well. Folks that want to
discuss a point stand near the microphone, and go back and forth
until the Chair recognizes someone else. That same principle _worked_
with remote participants' video staying on-screen.
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John Leslie <john(_at_)jlc(_dot_)net>