Remote participation is hard even in the ideal. I’ve run into cases recently when it was harder than it needed to be. Last IETF, I was trying to listen in and ask questions remotely - I found that many wg did not have anyone assigned the role of transferring questions to the mike. And even if there was a person assigned, the remote latency meant that “any questions” asked in the room, followed 2 seconds later by “no? ok, on to next topic” did not leave enough time for remote questions to appear. This IETF, there was no one assigned in the plenary to relay questions from the meetecho chat /jabber room to the mic. Is real-time remote participation a goal? Is it supposed to be supported enough that it is effective participation? Or is it just for those who are passive observers? —Sandy
