Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-08 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.comwrote: On 8/6/13 11:58 AM, Joe Abley wrote: For what it's worth (not much) I would miss the line at the mic. There are useful conversations that happen within the line that I think we would lose if the mic followed the

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
Just thinking out aloud What about a web-cam (maybe a wireless one? Never tried to use them...) right under the mic, so that it takes a picture of the badge and shows it on the screen? Everyone (right?) in a meeting has a badge wit his/her/its :) name and affiliation, so privacy concerns

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Keith Moore
On 08/07/2013 02:26 AM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: Just thinking out aloud What about a web-cam (maybe a wireless one? Never tried to use them...) right under the mic, so that it takes a picture of the badge and shows it on the screen? Everyone (right?) in a meeting has a badge wit

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: Maybe attaching such a sign to the MIC from the start could additionally improve the situation. There were signs like this attached to all the mics in all the rooms at this IETF. I never looked at them, and I doubt anybody else did

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Paul Aitken
Ted Lemon wrote: Ironically, this IETF everyone who stayed at the Intercontinental was walking around with an RFID key in their pocket the whole meeting. Could there be a conflict if IETF badges also have RFID tags attached, eg we get Room 1283 at the mic? P.

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Paul Aitken
Joe Abley wrote: Or perhaps future IETFers.app releases could talk using bluetooth to a transponder duct-taped to the mic stand and realise the same outcomes (and if you don't like that, you can always touch no in the appropriate place on your phone). Instead of requiring additional hardware

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Riccardo Bernardini framefri...@gmail.com wrote: Just thinking out aloud What about a web-cam (maybe a wireless one? Never tried to use them...) right under the mic, so that it takes a picture of the badge and shows it on the screen? Everyone (right?) in a

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread manning bill
would this mandate wearing badges only in certain locations, e.g. over the left breast? /bill On 6August2013Tuesday, at 23:26, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: Just thinking out aloud What about a web-cam (maybe a wireless one? Never tried to use them...) right under the mic, so that it

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Dave Crocker
On 8/5/2013 2:15 AM, Dan York wrote: On the topic of badge-sensing at the mic, I seem to recall that we had this working at an IETF sometime back in the RAI working groups. It was maybe 4 or 5 years ago and I think it may have been some student(s) under Henning Schulzrinne at Columbia... but

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Dan York
On the topic of badge-sensing at the mic, I seem to recall that we had this working at an IETF sometime back in the RAI working groups. It was maybe 4 or 5 years ago and I think it may have been some student(s) under Henning Schulzrinne at Columbia... but I am not sure about that. I remember

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Richardson
Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: An entirely different approach would be to have all speakers make a 'reservation' into a single meetecho (or whatever) online queue, and then get called in order, whether local or remote and independent of what microphone they are at.

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-06, at 11:27, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 8/5/2013 2:15 AM, Dan York wrote: [...] I remember that when you went to the mic you put your badge up to this sensor and your name appeared in the jabber room. ... and the main screen in the room, if we're thinking about

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: It was an experiment. It was awkward and inaccurate. It also raised basic privacy concerns, what with wearing something that can be tracked as you move around. Ironically, this IETF everyone who stayed at the

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: An entirely different approach would be to have all speakers make a 'reservation' into a single meetecho (or whatever) online queue, and then get called in order, whether local or remote and independent of what microphone

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread John Levine
Ironically, this IETF everyone who stayed at the Intercontinental was walking around with an RFID key in their pocket the whole meeting. How many of us put them in faraday cages? I put all of my cards in a faraday cage, but perhaps that's just me, and because I carry an RFID passport card.

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 06/08/13 18:31, Michael Richardson wrote: Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: An entirely different approach would be to have all speakers make a 'reservation' into a single meetecho (or whatever) online queue, and then get called in order, whether local or remote and

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Dave Crocker
On 8/6/2013 12:15 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: An entirely different approach would be to have all speakers make a 'reservation' into a single meetecho (or whatever) online queue, and then get called in order, whether local or remote

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/6/13 11:58 AM, Joe Abley wrote: For what it's worth (not much) I would miss the line at the mic. There are useful conversations that happen within the line that I think we would lose if the mic followed the speaker, and I also think that pipelining the people at the mic promotes more

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-06, at 15:54, Aaron Yi DING aaron.d...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: On 06/08/13 18:31, Michael Richardson wrote: And move the microphones to the people, rather than the other way around. This is indeed friendly, although standing up to walk a bit is also good, at least f2f

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: We can easily have three or four microphones that can play leap-frog around the room. +1 Of course, then we need a facilitator to wrest it away from filibusterers or simply a mechanism for the chairs to mute a mic.

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Paul Aitken pait...@cisco.com wrote: Could there be a conflict if IETF badges also have RFID tags attached, eg we get Room 1283 at the mic? No. Only known IDs would register. The RFID badge just has a number—it doesn't say Room 1283.

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
[to no one in particular] Uhhh... I can't tell if you folks are being serious about this idea or not, but in case you are being serious... ISTM there's such a thing as too much technology being a bad thing. If you think technical glitches now-and-then cause issues with remote participants

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: If the problem is we don't know who's speaking, then fix that problem. In WGs I go to, both the WG chairs and the jabber scribes regularly yell NAME! if someone forgets to say it. Unlike DNS Ops, this isn't rocket

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/06/2013 01:46 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: If the problem is we don't know who's speaking, then fix that problem. In WGs I go to, both the WG chairs and the jabber scribes regularly yell NAME! if someone forgets to say

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/06/2013 12:58 PM, Joe Abley wrote: For what it's worth (not much) I would miss the line at the mic. There are useful conversations that happen within the line that I think we would lose if the mic followed the speaker If the conversations are useful, should they not be happening as

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Keith Moore
On 08/06/2013 04:03 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 8/6/13 11:58 AM, Joe Abley wrote: For what it's worth (not much) I would miss the line at the mic. There are useful conversations that happen within the line that I think we would lose if the mic followed the speaker, and I also think that

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Martin Rex
Doug Barton wrote: Ted Lemon wrote: M, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: If the problem is we don't know who's speaking, then fix that problem. This doesn't work very well. [...] nobody likes getting yelled at. I certainly don't like _having_ to yell. Then come up with an

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: If the problem is we don't know who's speaking, then fix that problem. In WGs I go to, both the WG chairs and the jabber scribes regularly yell

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Yes, a group from my lab did this, using short-range RFID. (The range was about 1-2 inches.) It required a bit of a setup which made it hard to replicate at scale, but it worked reasonably well. Privacy concerns are an issue, but you'd have to be very close to the person to sense the card (and

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Randy Bush
Ironically, this IETF everyone who stayed at the Intercontinental was walking around with an RFID key in their pocket the whole meeting. How many of us put them in faraday cages? one. i made it a habit I thought the experiment in Hiroshima went well count me in the privacy concerns camp

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread John Levine
In article m2li4ew2nk.wl%ra...@psg.com you write: Ironically, this IETF everyone who stayed at the Intercontinental was walking around with an RFID key in their pocket the whole meeting. How many of us put them in faraday cages? one. i made it a habit Two. I have a wallet with a built-in