On 8/7/19 11:15 AM, Tim Chown wrote: >> On 7 Aug 2019, at 18:13, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 8/6/19 11:26 PM, Nico Williams wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 07:55:11AM +0300, Yoav Nir wrote: >>>> The jabber room also works as a back-channel for both remote and local >>>> participants. Sometimes the conversation there is at least as useful >>>> as the one in the room. >>> >>> I'm all for keeping jabber. >>> >>> I'm not sure we need a scribe at all now that we have meetecho and >>> decent sound, >> >> How do remote participants get their questions asked at the mic line? > > Indeed, the jabber scribe is now to all intents and purposes a jabber relay. I think it always was. We tried to change that terminology in RFC 7649 but the terminology was already set in stone. Peter