While sitting in on my local node SC global certification run, the difficulty of encouraging people with personal nodes to come in and observe events while simultaneously ensuring that everyone in a given event is operating their node properly was brought up. While thinking about it later, I came up with at least a potential solution - a one way bridge.
Take two venues, A and B. A sizeable event is scheduled in venue A that will have a fixed set of predetermined interactive participants, but the event coordinators would also like for anyone who wishes to be able to view the full event. My idea is to take a hacked up bridge that connects to both venues A and B, but only forwards multimedia multicast traffic and any other events (such as shared app events) from A to B, and ignores any events that it sees from venue B (although exceptions might be made - question tool, for example). The end result of this would be that everyone in venue A would see and hear each other, while those in venue B would see and hear everyone in venue B, plus those in venue A. Does this sound reasonable? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC
