Cool idea. I would hang out if other people did. +1 to using protocols other than email for ephemeral discussions such as these :) --Richard On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed Oct 26 17:30:04 2011, John C Klensin wrote: >> As others have pointed out, that doesn't solve the "water >> cooler" problem. It would probably require some rethinking of >> how we handle BOFs, WG creation, and other tasks. > > Creating a virtual water cooler is possible - XMPP chatrooms do provide this pretty well - but there's a cultural shift required that requires effort to put into place. > > I think we could probably get this going to some degree if we [for any value of we] simply stated that we'd hang about in the relevent chatrooms. For me (being a woolly apps kind of guy) that'd presumably be hallway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and apparea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - I note there's even people in the latter. > > Any reasonable XMPP client will include support for automatically joining chatrooms. For anyone here interested, it's "Bookmarks" - XEP-0048, typically stored in XEP-0049, for which you'll need server-side support - GTalk won't quite cut it, I'm afraid. > > These things need a critical mass - a solid group of regulars in the chatroom who're willing to basically hang around and chat - but it's possible, and - I think - worthwhile whatever we do. So I've just bookmarked said rooms with auto-join to see what happens. > > Dave. > -- > Dave Cridland - mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx - xmpp:dwd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ > - http://dave.cridland.net/ > Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf