ARIN meeting virtual attendance
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_________
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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.
I would think that would be a good thing. Will it bring about significant an needed change? I don't know...but I'd be willing to give it a shot if it seems that the possibility exists. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:49:39PM -0400, Jeff McAdams wrote:
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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.
I would think that would be a good thing. Will it bring about significant an needed change? I don't know...but I'd be willing to give it a shot if it seems that the possibility exists.
With the reduced cost of IP telephony devices, the abundance of bandwidth to (most) of the ARIN region, I think it would make sense to have some SIP (or if necessary h.323) conference available for people to remotely join. This could even be done by multicasting the session live and having a web form for live-questions/feedback. I know my employer has used a similar method (but via a conf call) for all associates meetings and it has worked fairly well. - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
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.
Seems to me someone could setup a PC running *[1] and do the VOIP conferencing pretty easily. People could participate in ARIN meetings from their workplace desktops, home, whatever. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] [1]http://www.asteriskpbx.org/
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:42:17PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
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.
Seems to me someone could setup a PC running *[1] and do the VOIP conferencing pretty easily. People could participate in ARIN meetings from their workplace desktops, home, whatever.
-Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
To actually use the conferencing functionality in this software requires that you have the hardware as well. I've not found a free conferencing solution other than using the Vocal (www.vovida.org) siph323csgw (sip <->h.323 translator) to talk to the openh323.org OpenMCU. - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Jared Mauch wrote:
To actually use the conferencing functionality in this software requires that you have the hardware as well. I've not found a free conferencing solution other than using the Vocal (www.vovida.org) siph323csgw (sip <->h.323 translator) to talk to the openh323.org OpenMCU.
The last time I used openh323 openmcu it was not stable. It could hold 2 clients for a few minutes, then it would crash or lock up. Not to mention that openh323 was a real PITA to install. Anyway I was told you can just load the zaptel dummy driver and it will provide the timing the * conferencing requires. (And if it doesnt, the x100p is only $100) -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
## On 2003-04-14 18:01 -0400 Jared Mauch typed: JM> JM> To actually use the conferencing functionality in this software JM> requires that you have the hardware as well. I've not found a free JM> conferencing solution other than using the Vocal (www.vovida.org) JM> siph323csgw (sip <->h.323 translator) to talk to the openh323.org JM> OpenMCU. JM> JM> - jared JM> JM> What about VRVS ? <http://vrvs.org/> -- Rafi
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