As is pretty clear from recent threads, there are ARIN members who, for whatever reasons, don't or can't attend the public meetings, but would like to have some input into ARIN's policies as well as voice their concerns over the current state of ARIN <-> member interaction. Since we're a relatively high-tech group, has anyone ever looked into what it takes to setup virtual attendance? i.e. I'm guessing a good number of network operators have either participated DoveBid's auctions (getting the network and office goodies at auction from your failed telecom competitors) or know people who have. I've personally been to these both in person and virtually. In virtual mode, you get to listen in on the auction and speak when necessary (i.e. to bid). With a bit of hardware, I bet this could even be done with VOIP, removing the need for anyone (ARIN or the members) to pay for the long distance calls for virtual attenders. I don't know what hardware/software is involved in this (i.e. what DoveBid uses), but IIRC, ARIN does have several million in the bank. What better way to spend our money than to facilitate member participation? I think this would be a great way to get more member participation at the meetings...and (for personal reasons) it's the only way I can see myself getting to a meeting in the near future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________