i was just giving an amen to Hennings note that participant identification in other venues has taken on a different form than "blue-sheets"... I don't see a problem to be solved - as long as folks realise that attendance/participation in the IETF is not bound by a scrawl on a sheet of paper. --bill On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:18:27PM -0700, David Conrad wrote: > I'm sorry. What problem are we trying to solve again? > > I thought we were talking about simply removing email addresses from > the blue sheets, but it seems we're talking about something entirely > different. > > Thanks, > -drc > > On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Bill Manning wrote: > > > >WIDE camps have done the RFID thing for several years now. > > > >--bill > > > > > >On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:35:12AM -0400, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: > >>The registration database for each IETF meeting already contains > >>email > >>addresses of all attendees, presumably a superset of the blue-sheet > >>signers. > >> > >>More technologically-advanced conferences and trade-shows use RFID or > >>(a few years ago) mag stripes to avoid deciphering handwriting. The > >>per-card cost is modest and since there are a lot of repeat > >>attendees, > >>we all just need our IETF "frequent flyer card". We used something > >>like that for speaker identification at the microphone at ACM > >>Multimedia 2004; the microphone had a BlueTooth-enabled RFID reader > >>that transmitted the code to a data gathering host, which then > >>displayed name and affiliation on a screen. The range of the card was > >>a few inches. > >> > >>Henning > >> > >>On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Mr Kim Sanders wrote: > >> > >>>- If there were a database with everyone on file . > >>>- If each person were assigned a permanent identity code . > >>>- If block l(i.e. disconnected) letters were required . > >>>- If persons designated as having legible handwriting wrote > >>>everything but > >>>the signature . > >>> > >>>/Kim > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>IETF mailing list > >>IETF@xxxxxxxx > >>https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > >-- > >--bill > > > >Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and > >certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or > >otherwise). > > > >_______________________________________________ > >IETF mailing list > >IETF@xxxxxxxx > >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf