Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF

2002-11-21 Thread George Michaelson
Looking for words to express the sense of frustration when you have a bloody interesting session, you have saved bloody interesting Qs from the floor, you have people on jabber who want to see the stuff, and the f***$%#^D network dies on you, so you can't put the stuff into the jabber session at

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meetingin Atlanta

2002-11-20 Thread Franck Martin
The ultimate trick would be to have a speech to text recognition software... So whoever is talking appears as text in the conference room... This would be the lowest bandwidth capable conference system... Additional question, does jabber uses multicast or anycast for conferencing?

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meetingin Atlanta

2002-11-20 Thread John Stracke
Franck Martin wrote: The ultimate trick would be to have a speech to text recognition software... So whoever is talking appears as text in the conference room... This would be the lowest bandwidth capable conference system... Not to mention the most entertaining. :-) Your average

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF

2002-11-20 Thread Ted Hardie
A sinner speaks...I find this is increasing a bad habit to do a blasts shields up view of my laptop instead of paying attention to the wgs. I'm personally trying to cut that back, and I'd recommend to others who are similarly easily addicted to the glow of their screens that this could be a

After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meeting inAtlanta

2002-11-19 Thread Leslie Daigle
Let me say I really like the text conferencing experiment so far. It's pretty cool to get a chance to have an idea of what's going on in sessions you can't split yourself to attend. It'd be interesting to see more people attending the text conference; in other (non-IETF) meetings I've seen

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meeting in Atlanta

2002-11-19 Thread Marshall Rose
Let me say I really like the text conferencing experiment so far. It's pretty cool to get a chance to have an idea of what's going on in sessions you can't split yourself to attend. thanks. certainly the unexpected result (for me) is that it's really useful for the attendees --

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meeting in Atlanta

2002-11-19 Thread Scott W Brim
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 11:10:30AM -0500, Marshall Rose allegedly wrote: thanks. certainly the unexpected result (for me) is that it's really useful for the attendees -- initially, i thought this was primarily going to be a big help for folks who couldn't physically get to the meeting. I

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meeting in Atlanta

2002-11-19 Thread Graham Klyne
It's common practice for W3C to use IRC during teleconferences and face-to-face meetings, from which minutes can be derived. The combination works pretty well when I have been involved. Jabber seems to work better than IRC because, on logging in to a conference a record from the conference

Re: After 1 day... Re: text conferencing at the 55th IETF meeting in Atlanta

2002-11-19 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Leslie Daigle writes: Let me say I really like the text conferencing experiment so far. It's pretty cool to get a chance to have an idea of what's going on in sessions you can't split yourself to attend. Indeed. --Steve Bellovin,