Actually, the use of Windows Media Player is quite rare for the events I am talking about, Real is probably used in 90% of them, I only mentioned the other one because it does appear from time to time. Note that Real Player is available for multiple platforms for free, and so is Windows Media Player, I have one for the Mac for example. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > In message <Pine.HPX.4.58.0403031823180.17556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ole Jacobsen wr > ites: > > > ><begin naive question> > > > >Apart from the "eating our own dogfood" bit ... > > > >Most other Internet events I attend, or follow remotely, use Real > >audio/video, or sometimes Windows Media Player. > > > >Can anyone tell me if there are any TECHNICAL reasons why we can't > >do this for the IETF meetings? > > > > Does Windows Media Player run on a high-enough percentage of IETFers > machines? The incidence of Windows here is considerably lower than in > the population as a whole. Note that this is a technical reason: it > doesn't support our user base. > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb > >