For those, who would like to use SIP for text conferencing, experimental operation of a SIP2Jabber gateway has been set up at iptel.org. See http://www.iptel.org/ietf55/ for guidelines how to join the IETF chat rooms. Better set your expectations low -- the gateway has not been tested with bigger user populations until now. -Jiri At 03:11 PM 11/18/2002, Marshall Rose wrote: > Remote Access for the 55th IETF meeting in Atlanta: > Text Conferencing > >At each IETF meeting, two of the working group meeting rooms are equipped >for video multicast and remote participation. That is, for every IETF >meeting slot, two of the working groups can see and hear the >meeting. For the 55th IETF, in *addition* to the usual network A/V, text >conferencing will be provided for every working group that meets. > >All of the conference rooms are hosted on > > conference.ietf.jabber.com > >and each is named using the official IETF abbreviation found in the >agenda (e.g., "apparea", "dhc", "forces", and so on -- for all the >examples that follow, we'll use "foobar" as the abbreviation). > >Each conference room also has a 'bot which records everything that gets >sent: > > http://www.jabber.com/chatbot/logs/conference.ietf.jabber.com/foobar/ > >Enjoy! > >/mtr -- Jiri Kuthan http://iptel.org/~jiri/