Translation? Also, it would be important that the "local" people/helpers could do an introduction to what it is the ietf, how to send comments in the remote participation, to the list, what's a WG etc. It may sound a bit bureaucratic, but if we want to have these remote people to start sending emails, comments, reviewing draft we need to break the "ice" somehow. It does not have to be extensive, a short intro could be enough. About a serious proposal, are you thinking in an I+D, wg or something coming from the IESG, IAOC? /as On 27 May 2013, at 09:07, Dave Crocker wrote: > On 5/27/2013 1:52 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: >> About the remote hub I think it would be good to give it a try. > > > I'm increasingly intrigued by this idea. It could be interesting to try to formulate a serious proposal for this, with enough detail to qualify as a functional specification. The easy part is specifying audio/video streams support. More challenging is to get the personal and personnel support figured out. > > And should it have some means of assisting discussions outside of the bof/wg/plenary sessions? > > What else? > > d/ > > -- > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net