Richard Shockey <richard@shockey.us> wrote: > 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. Bill Woodock of Packet Clearing House <woody@pch.net> has set up a SIP network where you dial an ASN (and optionally an extension) that will ring various NOCs. Currently they are using Cisco phones, but there is no reason why software SIP based phones shouldn't work as well. http://www.pch.net/inoc-dba/ ~-~ INTER-NOC HOTLINE PHONE SYSTEM Packet Clearing House operates the Inter-Network Operations Center Dial-By-ASN (INOC-DBA) hotline phone system, a global voice telephony network that connects the network operations centers and security incident response teams of critical Internet infrastructure providers such as backbone carriers, Internet service providers, and Internet exchanges as well as critical individuals within the policy, regulatory, Internet governance, security and vendor communities. The INOC-DBA is a closed system, ensuring secure and authenticated communications, and uses a combination of highly redundant directory services and direct peer-to-peer communications between stations to create a resilient, high-survivability network. It carries both routine operational traffic and emergency-response traffic. ~-~ It may make sense to have the IESG members to have access to this emergency network in general, besides for its use in IESG business. I don't believe at this point that they have conferencing services available, only point-to-point calls, but I'm fairly certain from some discussions that I've had with some SIP conferencing tool vendors that we should be able to get them to donate those services as well. We might even be able to get Cisco to donate some phones. -- Christopher Allen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .. Christopher Allen Alacrity Management .. .. <ChristopherA at AlacrityManagement.com> 1563 Solano Ave. #353 .. .. o510/649-4030 f510/649-4034 Berkeley, CA 94707 ..