RE: identifying yourself at the mic

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It would be simpler, cheaper, and more reliable  to have one guy with
a whistle in each meeting who could blow the whistle and ask for the
speaker's name when appropriate.   

Steve Silverman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry Ernst [mailto:thierry.ernst@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:08 AM
> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: identifying yourself at the mic
> 
> 
> >When identifying yourself at the mic, it's completely useless if
you 
> >mumble your name, or say it at even approaching normal
> speed.  Slow down.
> >Many of you mumble it very quickly, and after the
> amplification system
> >munges it, it's just a buzz.
> >
> >Even if your name was just said by the chair, the note taker might 
> >benefit from hearing it a second or third time :-)
> >
> >This is particularly the case for english speaking notetakers and 
> >non-native english speaking speakers.  Alas, I at least, am stupid 
> >about typing names from hearing them.  Often, the only way I
> can guess
> >what you said was because I already know who you are.
> 
> As a non-native english speaker, I do have difficulties to
understand 
> names of .... native english speakers.
> 
> May I make a suggestion: why not having some of these RFIDs or
another 
> technology where the speaker would be identified by his card and his

> name would be displayed on some additional TV display ? I think it 
> would benefit everyone to know who is the person on the mic.
> 
> Thierry


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