At Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:36:42 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > On 3 aug 2008, at 18:26, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > I find that scribing on jabber has a number of advantages > > On the other hand, having the jabber room monopolized by the scribe > reduces its usefulness as an additional channel for communication. > > Now that we have audio for all sessions (although sometimes the > quality is far from ideal) is it really necessary to repeat everything > that's being said in jabber? > > I think the jabber scribe function should be reduced to announcing new > speakers and giving some hints about which slides are on the screen. > The jabber room can then be used by local and remote participants as > an extra channel rather than a reduced bandwidth copy of the audio. > > > 3.) A minor point, but I would urge WG chairs to formally designate > > someone (possibly themselves) to > > relay questions from jabber. This seems to fall to the jabber > > scribe, even though it is impossible to stand at the > > mike and scribe at the same time ! > > An extra microphone for the question relayer would also be useful. > What I always try to do in this situation is sit next to the mike... Actually, what I think would be very useful would be to have a second screen that shows the jabber channel. The burden of having to run everything through the scribe is just too high to allow meaningful participation. -Ekr _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf