-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/13/09 4:07 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > Folks, > > There's been, for a few weeks now, a discussion in the IETF about > providing a good framework for IETF meetings - mostly "interim" > meetings, which are meetings of around 30 people. > > The idea is to find product and/or technology to do these effectively. > > This is *not* a new protocol development team, this is purely > infrastructure, but I'm sending this to Standards@ as well as jdev@ to > get a better audience - if the vMeet people were given the suggestion of > "download FooClient" this would be a fine response, and actually > preferable to "Implement XEP-9945". Still, I'd prefer, personally, to > have some open standards, as well as implementation. > > The IETF has, for some time, used XEP-0045 to handle the text-based > conferencing. The interesting question to me is whether we could get a > few additional features relatively easily deployed in support of what > they need. > > It looks like: > > 1) Multiway VOIP (with mixers). > > 2) Floor control, of some form. (Probably only affecting VOIP). This is > basically to emulate the "queue at the microphone", and the concept of a > "chair" (ie, "chairman") and various "presenters", in serial. > > 3) Slide sharing. I'm actually seriously thinking that what they need is > the simple ability to have a file sharing thing going on, then say what > page of the PDF is "currently shown". > > 4) Whiteboarding. Although it pains me to even mention the word, given > what seems to happen every time the subject is raised. > > Does anyone have anything that does all this already?
I don't know of any XMPP-based system that does multiway VoIP (a.k.a. Mingle), floor control (seems like it would be fairly straightforward to define a protocol extension for this), slide sharing (attach file to room and use "MEP" or even just in-room messages to provide cues about which page is current), and whiteboarding. Heck, I don't know of any systems that do even one of those things, other than perhaps low-level whiteboarding if you're using the right client. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoK21wACgkQNL8k5A2w/vw6ygCeJTjP3DWHgIzUf++p6iORA4MC L8cAn1rL6EqWFu3wwryxnvqSivxjLPpa =XQHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
