There are excellent SIP voice conferencing bridges available, such as from snom AG and eDial. They can be used with various soft clients such as the Windows Messenger, HotSIP Active Contacts or the Pingtel instant expressa, or any SIP phone. I have taken the liberty of copying here the contacts for snom AG and eDial, in case this will be pursued. I wonder if snom AG or eDial would just give the IESG and IAB access to their conference servers? Would there be interest to have access to a WorldCom SIP conference bridge? Thanks, Henry > -----Original Message----- > From: sip-admin@ietf.org [mailto:sip-admin@ietf.org] On > Behalf Of Richard Shockey > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 6:04 PM > To: ietf@ietf.org > Cc: sip@ietf.org > Subject: [Sip] Eating our own Dog Food...could the IAB and > IESG use SIP for conference calls > > > > Like many of us I was moved my Harald's appeal for > suggestions for helping > to cut down costs in the IETF. > > I certainly endorse the idea of considering Canada or Mexico > as possible > sites for future IETF meetings, but I suspect that the weekly > teleconferece > calls that the IAB and IESG have represent a significant line > item for the > Secretariat. > > In case anyone has not heard, SIP is quite capable of > handling this type of > task and there are a variety of commercial as well as open > source Client > User Agents as well as commercial products and services that > could help > reduce this cost. > > I'm sure the SIP working group could help the Secretariat > identify products > and services that could make this essential function more > productive and > operate at less cost. > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Richard Shockey, Senior Manager, Strategic Technology > Initiatives NeuStar Inc. > 46000 Center Oak Plaza - Sterling, VA 20166 > Voice +1 571.434.5651 Cell : +1 314.503.0640, Fax: +1 > 815.333.1237 > <mailto:richard@shockey.us> or > <mailto:richard.shockey@neustar.biz> <http://www.neustar.biz> ; <http://www.enum.org> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use sip-implementors@cs.columbia.edu for questions on current sip Use sipping@ietf.org for new developments on the application of sip