| Hello Sandra, a couple of comments in-line. 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. A feasible approach to removing such a latency is indeed represented by the use of the Meetecho virtual queue. In this way, remote participants can in fact directly inject (in a chair-moderated fashion) their audio (and video, if desired) into the conference room, with no need for any “jabber relay”. This IETF, there was no one assigned in the plenary to relay questions from the meetecho chat /jabber room to the mic. That was unfortunate, indeed. The Meetecho queue might have done the trick also in this case, by the way. Remote participants requests get collected in the virtual queue, which is projected at all times inside the conference room, both on secondary screens and on a dedicated laptop on the chairs’ desk. 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? I might be biased, but my feeling is that we, as a community, have devoted huge efforts in the past years to improve the “quality” of the remote participation experience, by tackling the issue both from the cultural and the technological perspective. Things can (and must) always be improved, obviously. And a lot of work is still to be done. Though, I do believe we have made giant steps towards the final target of what Ray Pelletier used to call the “being there” experience. My 2 cents, Simon _\\|//_ ( O-O ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~o00~~(_)~~00o~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simon Pietro Romano Universita' di Napoli Federico II Computer Engineering Department Phone: +39 081 7683823 -- Fax: +39 081 7683816 e-mail: spromano@xxxxxxxx <<Molti mi dicono che lo scoraggiamento è l'alibi degli idioti. Ci rifletto un istante; e mi scoraggio>>. Magritte. oooO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~( )~~~ Oooo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/
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