On 21 Sep 2015, at 13:53, Göran Eriksson AP wrote:
Personally, I can understand the difficulty in enabling live TV
broadcast
of such an event as well as near impossibility to cover fully the
discussions in smaller teams, breaks and similar that often takes
place in
this type of tet-a-tet’s.
However, I think it is of value for both IETF and GSMA to go that
extra
mile in this case to ensure “data” is open. It is quite likely
that that
is the intent and plan of both IAB and GSMA but it is not evident
from
the information available so far, which is why I felt a need to put
the
question(s).
I'm very much in listening mode on this discussion at the moment, trying
to form an opinion driven by the community consensus. Toward that end,
I have a question about your proposed approach.
From a logistics point of view, considering that this workshop is being
organized by folks without having asked for a the major corporate
sponsorship (however, thank you to AT&T for providing the room for
MaRNEW!) that would be required for multiple cameras, a crew to operate
them, and enough space, power, and cooling for all of that equipment to
coexist with the participants (effectively a good-sized TV studio), with
none of the organizers being video production people -- how would you
go about getting a stream of high enough quality to matter to the
interested parties? I'm really not trying to say "no" with this
question, I'm hoping you have an answer that we can use at a future
workshop.
I'm also worried about the negative impact to the conversation that
would ensue from putting folks on camera that have sound architectural
ideas but are not used to speaking in public or don't have English as
their first language, so hopefully your approach will be unobtrusive
enough that the people in the room can more-or-less forget that they are
being streamed. We achieve that at IETF meetings by constraining the
conversation to fixed camera positions, with a team of folks that can
reposition cameras when necessary. However, for an in-person
architecture discussion, the friction that this approach adds has the
potential to impact the technical work to the point of making the
discussion a waste of time.
I have some other concerns, but I think the might be able to be worked
through if there is a logistical approch that is feasible in the real
world.
--
Joe Hildebrand