WIDE camps have done the RFID thing for several years now. --bill
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:35:12AM -0400, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: > The registration database for each IETF meeting already contains email > addresses of all attendees, presumably a superset of the blue-sheet > signers. > > More technologically-advanced conferences and trade-shows use RFID or > (a few years ago) mag stripes to avoid deciphering handwriting. The > per-card cost is modest and since there are a lot of repeat attendees, > we all just need our IETF "frequent flyer card". We used something > like that for speaker identification at the microphone at ACM > Multimedia 2004; the microphone had a BlueTooth-enabled RFID reader > that transmitted the code to a data gathering host, which then > displayed name and affiliation on a screen. The range of the card was > a few inches. > > Henning > > On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Mr Kim Sanders wrote: > > > - If there were a database with everyone on file . > > - If each person were assigned a permanent identity code . > > - If block l(i.e. disconnected) letters were required . > > - If persons designated as having legible handwriting wrote > > everything but > > the signature . > > > > /Kim > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
