Re: Speaking of VAT

2013-08-06 Thread t . p .
Original Message - From: John R Levine jo...@taugh.com To: Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 10:47 PM Subject: Re: Speaking of VAT Ray said the tax guys told him the IETF would get back about half of the VAT it paid. That's unrelated to what

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Keith Moore
On 08/04/2013 02:54 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that remote people see the slides at the same time as local people. For that, it seems to me that Meetecho

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 06/08/13 14:08, Keith Moore wrote: On 08/04/2013 02:54 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that remote people see the slides at the same time as local people. For

Re: Speaking of VAT

2013-08-06 Thread John Levine
My understanding is that Germany has reciprocal VAT agreements with a bunch of countries so if your employer is in one of those countries it may be able to reclaim, but since the US isn't one of them I haven't looked in detail. John VAT is a European Union tax that all member states are

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Aaron Yi DING
to clarify, imho: presentation != slides making the best out of IETF meetings for both f2f and remote participants is hard and yet worth our try. back to our slides shipping tread, everybody has own opinion toward whether I prefer/believe the slides should be uploaded earlier or not so,

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Andrew Feren
On 08/06/2013 09:08 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 08/04/2013 02:54 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that remote people see the slides at the same time as local people.

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: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On 7/29/13 4:54 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: There are existing specs that does what CBOR does just as well that have actual users. Some of these were approached, and none of them thought that having a standard for their format was worth the amount of heartache that dealing

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Richardson
If the WG/session chairs did not receive the slides at least a few days prior to the meeting, then it is really hard for the WG chairs to make sure that the slides support a discussion, rather than a presentation. Given that we have meetings on Friday morning, and some people are very busy

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: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-06 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Joe Hildebrand hil...@cursive.net wrote: On 7/29/13 4:54 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: There are existing specs that does what CBOR does just as well that have actual users. Some of these were approached, and none of them thought that

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-06, at 10:26, Aaron Yi DING aaron.d...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: to clarify, imho: presentation != slides In my experience, slides are mainly useful: 1. To convey information which is difficult to express accurately by voice only (e.g. graphs, names of drafts, big numbers) 2. To

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Hey Joe, On 8/6/13 7:41 PM, Joe Abley wrote: An example of (2) can be found in http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/87/slides/slides-87-dnsop-8.pdf where I presented a one-slide problem statement that consisted entirely filled with an xkcd cartoon. Once the room is suitably filled with

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: In my experience, slides are mainly useful: 1. To convey information which is difficult to express accurately by voice only (e.g. graphs, names of drafts, big numbers) Yup. 2. To distract the e-mail-reading audience in the

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Keith Moore
On 08/06/2013 11:06 AM, Andrew Feren wrote: On 08/06/2013 09:08 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 08/04/2013 02:54 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that remote people see

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-06, at 14:00, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: An example of (2) can be found in http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/87/slides/slides-87-dnsop-8.pdf where I presented a one-slide problem statement that consisted entirely filled with an xkcd cartoon. Huh, who knew

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Douglas Otis
On Aug 6, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Eliot Lear l...@cisco.com wrote: But if those lines contain questions, it gets you to the point where there is discussion, which is just fine, as you point out here: The best outcome at a working group meeting is that, as a presenter, you spend most of your

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: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On 8/6/13 11:34 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: The issue here is whether this proposal should be an IETF Proposed STANDARD. standards-track != standard, right? I think that is nuts and I would think it just as much nuts if it was my proposal. We have no real world

Re: RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Brian Rosen
Could be an app that put you in the queue and used your laptop/tablet/smartphone microphone to get the audio. On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, Michael Richardson wrote: Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net javascript:; wrote: An entirely different approach would be to have all speakers make a

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
2) No support for tag compression. (I assume this was about map keys, not about tags.) That's an interesting requirement, and one that I think could be added to the design if there were others that felt motivated to help. I think I can see a way that it could be added later: create a new

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: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 06/08/13 19:03, Keith Moore wrote: But if we're only concerned with making presentation slides available, we're selling ourselves very short. That's the point I'm trying to make. Keith Hi Keith, Thanks for clarifying it - agree with you fully on this point. Keeping a clear goal in

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-06, at 15:35, Aaron Yi DING aaron.d...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: PS: I personally find it rather funny to see people claiming one's own approach works better and so forth implicitly indicating they really understand what remote/f2f participants need, For the record, I have zero

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-06 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On 8/6/13 1:11 PM, Carsten Bormann c...@tzi.org wrote: If a CBOR application does require initial signature bytes for self-description purposes, I would suggest using something like 0xd8 0xf8 ...data item... which decodes as tag248(data item); we could define 248 as a no-op tag. Or a

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: RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Richardson
Brian Rosen b...@brianrosen.net wrote: Could be an app that put you in the queue and used your laptop/tablet/ smartphone microphone to get the audio. I was thinking that too, but I didn't want to get ahead of the problem statement of mic access :-)

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: RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/06/2013 01:47 PM, Doug Barton wrote: 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

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

Microphone protocol

2013-08-06 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 As I was watching the conversations in the microphone lines during some of the WG sessions, I thought that we could make a small improvement in the organization that could result in a better meeting. My first observation was that there is two

RE: RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Robin Uyeshiro
I would think any kind of multiple non-fixed microphone setup (maybe even fixed microphones) would need to be tested pretty thoroughly before use, as feedback problems can ruin a discussion. That would include laptop microphones. One way to alleviate this would be to require the use of

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: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-06 Thread Martin Rex
Ulrich Herberg wrote: I think that the heat was exceptional. I have grown up in Munich, and I have rarely ever seen it that hot (either in Munich or Berlin). Maybe it's global warming? ;-) Damn coincidences! IETF 39 was in Munich (August 1997) ArabellaSheraton @ Arabella Park, and it was

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-06 Thread Andy Bierman
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: Ulrich Herberg wrote: I think that the heat was exceptional. I have grown up in Munich, and I have rarely ever seen it that hot (either in Munich or Berlin). Maybe it's global warming? ;-) Damn coincidences! IETF 39 was in

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 00:52 +0200 Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: ... IETF 39 was in Munich (August 1997) ArabellaSheraton @ Arabella Park, and it was HOT pretty much the whole week. If I recall, another very successful meeting in a place we should go back to. Now, if only the

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-06 Thread Keith Moore
On 08/06/2013 07:36 PM, John C Klensin wrote: ... IETF 39 was in Munich (August 1997) ArabellaSheraton @ Arabella Park, and it was HOT pretty much the whole week. If I recall, another very successful meeting in a place we should go back to. I liked Munich as a destination. But the hotel /

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-06 Thread Douglas Otis
On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On 08/06/2013 07:36 PM, John C Klensin wrote: ... IETF 39 was in Munich (August 1997) ArabellaSheraton @ Arabella Park, and it was HOT pretty much the whole week. If I recall, another very successful meeting in a

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: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-06 Thread John Levine
Agreed. One minor downside was needing an additional flight. It seems AB who handles about a third of the traffic rather than Lufthansa that handles about one fifth, was not the best choice where a 6 hour layover extended an hour on the tarmac in a hot plane. With any luck, the next time we

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

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