I encourage people who have suggestions on how to do remote meetings to join the conversation in vmeet@xxxxxxxx. Tony Hansen On 4/12/16, 7:02 AM, "ietf on behalf of Rich Kulawiec" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of rsk@xxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:54:25PM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: >> If we were to attempt such a thing, how do you think it would work? > >Let me preface this by saying that I think attempts to completely >mimic the current in-person meeting experience as it exists probably >won't work. They might: but they probably won't. But then again, >I don't think that's entirely necessary: processes and procedures >change (compare boarding a steamship in 1930 with an aircraft in 2005) >and evolve in order to work with technology. > >So if I were to envision this, things I'd want to experiment with >would include: > >- passive view-only, listen-only read-only access to anyone, anonymously. >(That is: no registration required.) > >- levels of read-write access, perhaps (roughly speaking) distinguished >as text, audio, and video. Participants could select based on their >available bandwidth and on the level they're comfortable with. I think >it's reasonable to require registration for write access. > >- a channel for presentation content only. Again, this is an option for >those with limited bandwidth or limited time. > >- ability to delay/time-shift. > >- perhaps restructuring long sessions into smaller time slots. If people >have all travelled to the same place, then it makes sense to get a lot >done in a short time, and so a four hour session (for example) makes >sense. But if people are in disparate locations, then maybe four one-hour >sessions make more sense. This also better accomodate people who have >trouble carving out four hours in the middle of their day. Or night. > >- integrated storage of sessions, so that someone can watch, listen, >read, and absorb the entire experience. Useful for someone half a >planet away who won't be (or can't be) awake for real-time participation. > >- translations and/or text captioning and/or some kind of assistance >for non-native speakers and the hearing impaired. > >- emphasis on the inclusion of participants who can't make it to meetings >today, either because of time, money, politics, distance, family, job, etc. > >Over and above all of this: a willingness to experiment and to have >some of those expirements fail -- which they will. > >---rsk