Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, March 19, 2007 11:56:07 AM -0400 Steve Silverman > <s_silverman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > That guy is called the chair. Bad idea: the chair has too many other responsibilities. OTOH, we might consider issuing whistles to every jabber scribe: if they can't figure out who's talking, blow the whistle... (I speak as one who declines to volunteer as jabber scribe because I'm so weak at recognizing IETF folks by voice. If we had a situation where I could that easily request that a name be stated clearly, I'd be willing to volunteer...) In practice, alas, many of those who _do_ state their name mumble it so thoroughly that I'm not sure even repeated passes at the audio record could decipher it. My prejudice is that I don't want to spend a lot of time listening to folks I can't figure out how to contact by email. YMMV. I don't know what the mythical IETF consensus might be about this... -- John Leslie <john@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf