Hi gents, I'm sure I could distribute the RIPE video from our AS. We are at AMS-IX and generally have fine connectivity to the RIPE-NCC networks. This is a good proposal/idea and I would like to support it from the IP point of view. I agree with Gert that a realvideo stream might be better. I myself would be interrested in the (foreign) meetings which I do not attend, but am quite clueless with the (multicast && unix) combo. In principal, the meetings should be able to be sent into the Internet if somebody takes some hardware along with them. groet, Pim On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: | Hi, | | I do also second Stephen's proposal, it's a good idea. | | On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:34:57PM +0100, Matthew J Robinson wrote: | > I'd like to lend my support to this proposal. At it's simplest this is a few | > people with a few web cams and a bit of multicast support from a couple of | > networks. I'm fairly sure I can get some support from the multicast people on | > our network. | > | > Any one definately going that has a webcam and would be prepared to run a | > trial? I'll offer what help I can. I admit to knowing little about webcam | > software but I can route packets ;-) | | ... on the other hand, I tried this last meeting in Amsterdam, and "just | any Webcam" won't buy it. The video quality was very poor, and I did not | have any audio. | | I have a new web cam now, which has better video at about 100 kbit, but | for recognizable audio, one would need good microphone equipment, or | maybe (much better) a way to tap into the conference room's audio system. | | Most likely we'll have to do the routing over a tunnel into someone's | home network, and distribute the multicast from there, as the RIPE network | didn't have multicast routing enabled on the last few meetings. (The | interesting question is "how many listeners do have multicast?" - maybe | we need to do RealAudio instead). | | Also, bandwidth might be a problem as the link is usually already | saturated without video going on... | | I'd be willing to participate in the experiments, though. | | Gert Doering | -- NetMaster | -- | Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 46631 (46284) | | SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net | Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 | 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299 -- __________________ Met vriendelijke groet, /\ ___/ Pim van Pelt /- \ _/ Business Internet Trends BV PBVP1-RIPE /--- \/ __________________