On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Richard Shockey wrote: > 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. Are there existence proofs of IETF-style WGs conferencing via SIP these days? I don't know anything about these services, but it seems to me that to be practical, a SIP-capable conf call service would also have to support plain-old telephony callers as well. - RL "Bob"