Simon - Careful what you promse. I am sure someone will try to use the service through two satelite hops and then complain about the latency. Unfortunately, we cannot (yet) get of this speed of light thing :-) On Oct 21, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Simon Pietro Romano wrote: > Dear sm, > > just for the sake of completeness, I have to say that the following statement is not 100% correct: > >> >> The RFP mentions bidirectional audio and video. As John has attempted to chair a working group remotely, he might be aware that real-time can mean more than 10 seconds between the time an event occurs and when it is registered at the remote end. > > I am quite confident that none of the tools you mention entails such a long delay. You are probably talking about the mp3 audio feed, which, as far as I know, has never been meant to represent a real-time, bidirectional means of interaction (and which, btw, proves really helpful when you want to access high-quality recordings after the meeting). > I can state for sure that we have used Meetecho for remote presentations in Hiroshima, in the mediactrl WG meeting: interaction happens in real-time. > > Cheers, > > Simon > > -- > _\\|//_ > ( O-O ) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~o00~~(_)~~00o~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Simon Pietro Romano > Universita' di Napoli Federico II > Computer Science Department > Phone: +39 081 7683823 -- Fax: +39 081 7684219 > e-mail: spromano@xxxxxxxx > http://www.comics.unina.it/simonpietro.romano > > <<Molti mi dicono che lo scoraggiamento è l'alibi degli > idioti. Ci rifletto un istante; e mi scoraggio>>. Magritte. > oooO > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~( )~~ Oooo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > \ ( ( ) > \_) ) / > (_/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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