Hiya Nick,
> 1. do they support clientless access or are you stuck with having to > install a local client of some form? Zoom seems to require a browser > plug-in to work on a browser, and these plugins don't work on all > systems. By comparison, lots of other online systems support webrtc > (e.g. uberconference, bluejeans and piles of others). > This one will be Zoom, funnily enough I had this discussion with Job S yesterday about another conference. Reason for Zoom is specifically at this point, we and Bogons both know it and it works for us in webinar mode. The point you (and Job yesterday) raise though is valid, we will definitely try and look into other conferencing systems. It's a balance between time/resources to learn a new system specifically for webinars, vs being as open as possible so we can't guarantee we'll have switched by a specific time but we will look. 2. why does zoom / webex / etc need to know who we are? I really don't > want the conferencing system to know who I am. > Good question, will leave that one for Denesh. Slopey shoulders as $formerboss would say :) > I know these are awkward questions, but if online video conferences are > going to be the thing for the next while, maybe we need to get these > things out into the open and take a good look at them. > Not awkward, worth asking and was already aware from Jobs comments yesterday so you are not the only one asking this type of question. Will add this, for anyone not on the RIPE / LINX future of conferences discussion (involving NANOG too) , things like this are being discussed - yesterdays catch up was good, lots of information sharing there are a raft of questions right now in terms of how we move forward and what we can do attract sponsorship, increase reach and whether being online increases diversity. We in this sense being those who run Internet conferences. Keep and eye for a post on RIPE labs in the near future on this once they've had a chance to write things up. Ta Chris
