Hi Stephen, One way participation of a single meeting, i.e. a webcast, is "relatively" easy to do in this day and age. I'm presently building a kit for this under the guidance of the UofO folks who do the IETF's and NANOG. The equipment, though not cheap, is an investment that is IMHO well worth while if you intend To broadcast multiple meetings. The UofO folks also broadcast our last two meetings. They are extremely helpful folks and I'm sure would be willing to help with such a project if the NCC folks requested. Go to http://www.icann.org/bucharest for links to the stored archives if you want to see a sample. The difficulty for the RIPE meetings would be to have the the multiple meetings up at the same time, more gear and more staff. Two way participation is slightly more complicated. IRC, works but needs staffing to queue the questions. My experience from what I've seen is that 99% of the traffic is irrelevant to the topic. An Email addess is less interactive, still needs queueing but attracts less noise. There may be many other solutions. All of them will of course take resources to work during the meeting. It may be interesting to try broadcasting lir-wg and plenary as a test Case with a simple irc or mail interface for questions at the next Amsterdam meeting? Anyway I hereby offer my assistance along with those other offers. _________________________________________ John Crain Manager of Technical Operations ICANN crain@icann.org 1AF4 F638 4B2D 3EF2 F9BA 99E4 8D85 69A7 _________________________________________
-----Original Message----- From: owner-lir-wg@ripe.net [mailto:owner-lir-wg@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Burley Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 4:19 AM To: Lir-Wg@Ripe.Net Subject: [lir-wg] Webcasting Meetings
Hi I am formaly asking that if not RIPE 43 then all future meetings will be webcast so that all memebers who want to attend can attend the meeting. Otherwise this is by no means an equal opportunity meeing to attend and is only open to those who can get their expenses justified for holiday destinations with the express intention of going to the meeting, which lets face it in the current climate is nigh impossible. Its not that i do not appreciate the venues or that the meetings are not the place to go, its just getting harder to get to them. I wish to see a broader section of the community contributing to the RIPE process which is unique and a fine foundation for the RIPE community to come together, its just that the coming together is much harder for most now. Otherwise the only views expressed and heard are those of the people who can attend physicaly which is not the majority so limiting the scope and participation of the community at large.
Regards,
Stephen Burley WorldCom EMEA Hostmaster SB855-RIPE