IETF Chair <chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The IESG is soliciting community feedback on a proposal to require > registration for remote participants at IETF meetings... > > Registration would be mandatory to access MeetEcho sessions in real > time and to join the remote mic queue during a session... > > Upon registering, participants would be issued a registration ID, just > as they are today. > > To join a session, participants would be asked to input the > registration ID. These "registration IDs" are hard to remember. That's why I joined so many sessions "without rugistration ID". > The same email-based facility that is currently available to retrieve > a forgotten registration ID would continue to be available. This is not practical unless you allow joining enough before the start of session to complete the process. > The cookie-based ???Remember me??? option would also still be available. Would you believe some of us avoid cookies? > Other options for authentication (leveraging a user-chosen password or > datatracker credentials) might be explored further in the future. I strongly advise considering them before disallowing registration without registration ID. -- John Leslie <john@xxxxxxx>