Speaking of Standards

If you can’t get to Vancouver next week to join IETF 70, but you would like to stay up on what is going on, you actually have two options for following the sessions in real-time.

AUDIO - As they have done for several IETF meetings, the University of Oregon will offer live streaming of all IETF sessions. You may need to follow the IETF 70 agenda in order to know which session will be in which room, but this gives you a way to listen in as the sessions are in progress. They note at the bottom of the page that the raw audio sessions will be archived as well.

JABBER IM/TEXT CHAT - The IETF also runs a Jabber server with group chatrooms available for all the working groups. They provide easy steps to follow in the “IETF Text Conferencing” document available online. Basically, you connect in from your Jabber IM client to one of the groupchats hosted on “jabber.ietf.org”, where the chat room name is the abbreviation for one of the IETF Working Groups. For instance, I’ll be in the “mediactrl@jabber.ietf.org” early on Monday morning. The nice thing now is that GoogleTalk is XMPP/Jabber-based, so more people may have XMPP accounts (even if they don’t realize that they do).

Again, you’ll need to watch the IETF 70 agenda to understand which chat rooms will be active at any given time.

One caveat about IM - Whether or not the IM session is useful will largely depend upon whether someone in the room at IETF 70 will offer to act as a “scribe” and provide updates to people in the IM room. The scribe is updating people but also acting as a conduit for questions from the chatroom back to the room at the IETF meeting. At IETF 66 in Montreal this was something I did a couple of times and may well do so again here, depending upon my own schedule. Anyway, if there is a scribe for the session, the IM chat may be a useful way to stay up on what is going on. If no one will act as a scribe, well, there won’t be any meaningful communication.

That’s it! Two ways that you can join into the IETF 70 meetings even if you can’t get to Vancouver. Enjoy…

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