Re: [vmeet] Remote Participation Hubs

2017-06-15 Thread John Leslie
n af "Remote Participation Hib" would be a place where experienced IETF participants may meet together to "participate" in an IETF week without the current burdens of travel, visas, etc., and invite potential IETF participants to get a taste of what an IETF week is like. -- John

Re: [vmeet] Remote Hubs : Existing Internet Drafts

2017-02-03 Thread John Leslie
Christian O'Flaherty wrote: > On Feb 2, 2017, at 8:20 PM, John Leslie wrote: >> Christian O'Flaherty wrote: >>> >>> Before we start working on the documents I would try to decide what >>> do we need, >> >>Hard to answer that befor

Re: [vmeet] Remote Hubs : Existing Internet Drafts

2017-02-02 Thread John Leslie
e formal. I recommend against trying "more-formal" before we settle what we're trying to accomplish. > Christian Myself, I'd like to make remote-hubs more practical for folks already familiar with on-site IETF weeks. I think that will help newcomers as well as "

Re: [vmeet] Making remote hubs more formal, more complete, and more integrated

2017-01-30 Thread John Leslie
Paul Kyzivat wrote: > > I suggest that the IETF remove the US as a candidate for any future meetings. That isn't a topic for -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.

Re: [vmeet] Making remote hubs more formal, more complete, and more integrated

2017-01-30 Thread John Leslie
ows from that region, maybe ISOC needs to be involved > in this conversation. If we can attract some ISOC folks, that would be great. -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] Making remote hubs more formal, more complete, and more integrated

2017-01-30 Thread John Leslie
would cover most needs, if we add a dozen library carrels. It might well turn out that we could arrange hotel/motel close enough that the individual carrels could fit within the rented room. Understand that $100 out-of-pocket feels quite different than $3,0

Re: [vmeet] Making remote hubs more formal, more complete, and more integrated

2017-01-30 Thread John Leslie
rent! Nonetheless, cheap lodging is available almost everywhere for folks who can clear one whole day but not two more days for travel (not to mention uncertain entry into another country). (Time to move on... sorry.) -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL

Re: [vmeet] Making remote hubs more formal, more complete, and more integrated

2017-01-29 Thread John Leslie
will have to be asking friends _before_ the session starts. > Thoughts? The MeetEcho folks are our friends!!! -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] what's been working/failed/tried in hubs?

2016-10-10 Thread John Leslie
be helpful. And, of course, agendas _do_ change even after the start of an IETF week... -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] Experience as a remote attendee

2016-04-08 Thread John Leslie
g in real-time, so it no longer bothered me to lose the slides.) Serious debugging _during_ IETF-week really doesn't make sense; but we ought to do it sometime... -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.

[vmeet] Slides freezing

2016-04-05 Thread John Leslie
n no changes for ten minutes -- long enough for Comcast to time-out. Meetecho probably should include some keep-alives for ports; and IMHO really_should notice that a port has gone away, and recover without requiring the user to lose half-a-minute of audio. Of course, YMM

Re: [vmeet] Fwd: [Ietf-hub-boston] Announcement - IETF-95 Remote Hub to be held in Juniper NEIC

2016-03-28 Thread John Leslie
at a nearby > restaurant (British Beer Company). I'm thinking! > Discussion and more organization can happen on ietf-hub-bos...@ietf.org. I don't understand where they're inviting me to, or what I might find there. (I would,

Re: [vmeet] Fwd: report on use of JITSI for the ROLL virtual Interim meeting

2015-02-11 Thread John Leslie
Hmm... Dunno what that would take. >> {The 2013/2014 nomcom used G+ Hangouts, and we were able to use the Google >> internal one which permitted >9 participants as we had a Google person who >> had access to it. The 2014/2015 Nomcom tried a call or two with JITSI, but >> the audio bridge problem was more severe} I've had generally good experiences with G+ Hangouts -- though of course the details change, seemingly every time I use it. -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

[vmeet] WebEx on MacOSX

2012-10-01 Thread John Leslie
erely hope this will find a resolution soon... -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-genarea-rps-reqs-05.txt

2012-08-02 Thread John Leslie
working groups that have >> multiple sessions during a meeting week? Are there any requirements on the >> tool (particularly around archiving) to combine these sessions into some >> logical unit associated with the working group? How much integration with >> the meeting s

Re: [vmeet] RPS Priority Question: Video

2012-06-20 Thread John Leslie
Russ Housley wrote: > > 2.4.1. Video from the Room to Remote Attendees > > **Requirement 04-40**: Remote attendees MUST be able to see the > presenter at a meeting. A lower-priority requirement is that remote > attendees SHOULD be able to see who is speaking at the mics in the > room. > >

Re: [vmeet] RPS Priority Question: Audio

2012-06-13 Thread John Leslie
remote audio.) BTW, Google Hangout was working quite nicely (once we got it working at all) for RTCWEB this week... -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] Remote participation

2012-05-22 Thread John Leslie
alled-for IMHO.) I suggest that the jabber stream SHOULD contain the name of every participant speaking at the microphone (or channeled). In practice, the Jabber Scribe can't simultaneously type and speak; so someone else would probably need to add the "channeling NN" note. -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] [Team] The devil in the details

2012-03-25 Thread John Leslie
John C Klensin wrote: > > Thanks again to all for trying to make this work. +1 -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] Projected slides

2012-03-20 Thread John Leslie
Paul Hoffman wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:09 PM, John Leslie wrote: > >> 1. Actual slides come in different software versions. Incompatibilies >>are frequent enough that I doubt folks would want to use it. > > Currently, slides become part of the proceedings.

Re: [vmeet] Projected slides

2012-03-20 Thread John Leslie
e per second would probably suffice. -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] Face-to-face interim meetings without remote participation

2012-03-01 Thread John Leslie
ere _big_ problems when the IESG first tried WebEx. >> Maybe we should set up a tech support email address to log failures >> and get some statistics here. I think a wiki would be better: that way we might gather the community wisdom on workarou

Re: [vmeet] Face-to-face interim meetings without remote participation

2012-02-29 Thread John Leslie
lks to spend enough time learning them has proven a major challenge. Perhaps publishing some of the success stories would help? -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] in-person and remote attendees: all or nothing?

2012-02-02 Thread John Leslie
Dan Wing wrote: > [John Leslie [mailto:j...@jlc.net] wrote:] >> Dan Wing wrote: >>> >>> How can we best handle both in-person and remote attendees? Remote >>> attendees get frustrated with speakers/chairs using visual queues or >>> pointing at slides

Re: [vmeet] in-person and remote attendees: all or nothing?

2012-02-02 Thread John Leslie
s or 100% remote attendees, which seems to resolve several of the > issues. I wouldn't want to retreat that far. We can't seem to get all the players to physically attend IETF weeks. Furthermore, IMHO, all-remote meetings become exhausting after about 45 minutes. -- John Lesli

Re: [vmeet] PSTN bridges

2012-02-01 Thread John Leslie
else give the presentation. A single > disembodied voice is better than not getting the presentation at all. I agree. Further, I'd opine that presentations by local attendees that aren't _very_ familiar with the work are inherently problemmatic. I'd like to try to sta

Re: [vmeet] PSTN bridges

2012-01-27 Thread John Leslie
then how is the push to talk >implemented? *6 is used to mute yourself on some bridges. I don't think this requirements document needs to say how. > Requirements 1/2 seem to be already in the document. (Is there a recommended change to the text here?) -- John Leslie

Re: [vmeet] page 9, draft-ietf-genarea-rps-reqs-01.txt

2012-01-27 Thread John Leslie
Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>>> "John" == John Leslie writes: >>>> Scheduling of real-time meetings is out of scope for this document. >>>> What is in scope is the understanding that since many participants >>>> will be at

[vmeet] "Requirements Requirement Process"

2012-01-27 Thread John Leslie
Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Leslie writes: >>> Part of the problem is that we waste huge amounts of our in-person time >>> on presentations rather than conversations. > >> John> +100 !! > >> John> H

Re: [vmeet] page 9, draft-ietf-genarea-rps-reqs-01.txt

2012-01-24 Thread John Leslie
is that > they are expensive, hard(er than PPT) to produce, and so there was > much more conversation. +1 > I come back to this, because central to vmeet requirements is what kind > of meetings are we trying to support? I disagree that that's the question. We&

Re: [vmeet] page 9, draft-ietf-genarea-rps-reqs-01.txt

2012-01-24 Thread John Leslie
g by automobile; so IMHO we should cover the need for adapting to backgrond sound as well as poor bandwidth. IMHO, "not at their office" doesn't convey enough... -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.

Re: [vmeet] draft-ietf-genarea-rps-reqs comments

2012-01-06 Thread John Leslie
although there needs to be an indication of lower priority for some things it lists. > let me pick on john for an example No problem! > John Leslie wrote: >> - the audio fed to a remote participant SHOULD exclude his own voice, >> but enable him to hear any questions ra

Re: [vmeet] draft-ietf-genarea-rps-reqs comments

2012-01-06 Thread John Leslie
pdf, there is no > animation. On webex, if you share the ppt application you get animation, > but there is another mode in which you get a static version. I would > list it as "nice to have". It comes down to what we mean by "supported"... To me, the requirement re

Re: [vmeet] Getting input on remote participation in WG interim meetings

2011-12-06 Thread John Leslie
currently setting up an entirely virtual interim for MBONED, > probably for early January. I'll be interested in how it works. (BTW, Marshall and I will probably be doing F2F+Remote for CLUE in February, arranged by Mary Barnes -- eventually I hope CLUE will improve on the F2F+R expe

Re: [vmeet] Meetecho experiences in Prague

2011-04-06 Thread John Leslie
ting time. The Meetecho site was inadequate for introducing the tool. With more effort than I like to admit, I got one account set up, only to learn it did nothing to help me learn the tool. What is needed? Dry-runs. -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL:

Re: [vmeet] Fwd: Experiment: tools for remote participation in IETF80

2011-01-21 Thread John Leslie
ts. > > If you are interested in this, please let him know. I see the discussion on ; presumably Gonzalo means Simon Pietro Romano The meetecho website is disappointing -- leaves me with very little idea how to evaluate this tool. "The spirit is willing, but the flushed-out is weak...&

Re: [vmeet] Everybody wants it but nobody does it....

2010-11-11 Thread John Leslie
natives to keep up (as well as some _very_ good hints on _how_ to do so). -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] RFID readers at IETF 76

2009-11-08 Thread John Leslie
stand, and how they are > used by somebody speaking at the microphone. I suspect others are also interested... Myself, I have heard reference to them but I have no idea what they actually _do_ -- and I wonder whether it's practical to copy their output into

Re: [vmeet] Stockholm

2009-07-27 Thread John Leslie
John Leslie wrote: > >I think it would be good to document remote-participation experiences > at IETF75... The remote audio (so far) is a pretty total bust. Muzak was coming through pretty nicely until session start time; since then muzak alternated with silence for a whi

Re: [vmeet] Stockholm

2009-07-26 Thread John Leslie
but of course remote audio hasn't had the acid test yet...) > So, we are only going to focus on the two sessions that need to support > remote presenters. Fair enough! -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://m

[vmeet] Stockholm

2009-07-26 Thread John Leslie
, so most folks use dial-in). I think it would be good to document remote-participation experiences at IETF75. What do others think? -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet

Re: [vmeet] timeframe

2009-05-14 Thread John Leslie
Dave CROCKER wrote: > John Leslie wrote: > >> Our timeframe is too short to rule out "hacks" for Stockholm. For >> the IETF after that, we should be able to automate things. > > The timeframe for vmeet is whatever we set it to be. Not meaning to contradict,

Re: [vmeet] Supporting interim meetings

2009-05-14 Thread John Leslie
Dave CROCKER wrote: > John Leslie wrote: > >> 1) Right now, a phone bridge is essentially state-of-the-art for >> audio. Most everything else flunks Brian's 150 msec test. > > This raises two different questions: > > 1. Is passing that test really mandatory?

Re: [vmeet] Supporting interim meetings

2009-05-12 Thread John Leslie
someone is responsible for following-up on. (Some are group items; some private.) These deserve far more visibility than they usually get. 5) Separate applications is very likely better than one integrated application. Webex drives me crazy by taking over organization of the screen. I d

[vmeet] Duties of WG Chairs

2009-05-07 Thread John Leslie
. Can we do anything to help? -- John Leslie ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet