On 2013-08-06, at 11:27, Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/5/2013 2:15 AM, Dan York wrote: >> [...] I remember that when you went to the mic you put your badge up to this sensor and your name appeared in the jabber room. ... and the main screen in the room, if we're thinking about the same experiment. I seem to think it might have been in Hiroshima. > It was an experiment. It was awkward and inaccurate. It also raised basic privacy concerns, what with wearing something that can be tracked as you move around. I thought it was less awkward and inaccurate than relying on poly-accented and rushed (or missing) announcements of name and affiliation through the microphone. It was an improvement for jabber scribes, wg chairs trying to do minutes, remote participants and people in the room who are interested in who is talking, but not interested enough to stand up and demand that the name and affiliation be repeated. I remember the privacy concerns being expressed, but I also have been subscribed to more XXattendees mailing lists than I care to remember, and I had compartmentalised both sets of complaints into the same bucket that usually makes me unsubscribe from XXattendees by Tuesday. The NFC badge idea was a good one, I think, and I think it should happen again (even if it's opt-in at registration time, to reduce anxiety for those worried about their loss of privacy in a public meeting.) Or perhaps future IETFers.app releases could talk using bluetooth to a transponder duct-taped to the mic stand and realise the same outcomes (and if you don't like that, you can always touch "no" in the appropriate place on your phone). Joe