-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The sessions where floating mikes worked well were smaller in size, attendance wise. In fact, most of the time, the main reason for using the floating mikes was *not* so that everyone in the *room* could hear what was being said, but instead so that people listening in on the *audio stream* could hear what was being said. In larger rooms, the dynamics are much different, and floating mikes would not work as well. Tony Hansen tony@xxxxxxx James M. Polk wrote: > > floating mics are a bad idea for many reasons - each getting worse with > room and or audience size increasing. > > Who is in charge of who's next to speak? > Who passes the mics to the folks in the middle of a row who didn't > bother to get up? > Turning of heads happens now to know places (mics in the aisles), but > because seated persons are not standing, they cannot be easily seen, > causing some confusion and general discomfort in the audience to "find > the person", then "find their face" to know who's saying what - which is > important sometimes. > > Few people talk during sessions, and those that do, know to sit where > they can readily get to a mic to make a point. I see nothing wrong with > keeping this layout > >> Participants are more than capable of turning their heads >> but when holding a technical discussion those extra mics make a >> significant difference. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDBLOdxsSylYhzrRYRAqPWAKC++Dj/Eh55CgL36ppw/hUiBy2gmACfbZKj 0H065ZkT23fJfq58v2jRiIA= =HW0c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf