[108attendees] Fwd: Introducing the Meetecho Virtual Hum tool

[Martin Duke <[e-mail]>]

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From: Martin Duke <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:59 PM
Subject: Introducing the Meetecho Virtual Hum tool
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The IESG and IETF LLC are working with the Meetecho team to add the
capability to conduct “virtual hums” in fully remote meetings. A software
model model that shows the output for given numbers of people humming is
available for experimentation [TEST_SITE].

Working Group chairs seeking “a sense of the room” are invited to use this
tool to help obtain it. As always, consensus ultimately requires
confirmation on the email list.

The current implementation is based on a specification the IESG developed
[I-D.duke]. Briefly, the workflow is as follows:

   -

   A chair begins the hum in meetecho
   -

   Participants have 20 seconds to hum loudly, softly, or not all
   -

   At the conclusion of the hum, Meetecho will report the approximate
   loudness of the hum, on the following increasing scale: niente,
   pianissimo, piano, forte, fortissimo.


As there is no IETF consensus that offline hums have specific flaws, the
current specification seeks to reproduce the offline version as faithfully
as possible. The SHMOO working group [SHMOO] might reach consensus on a
different set of requirements in the future, and update or replace this
document.

The community will have an opportunity to try out this tool at participant
[PARTICIPANTS] and session chair [CHAIRS] training sessions beginning 15
July. Feedback is welcome on the manycouches mailing list. In particular,
practical operational issues (e.g. bug reports, usability concerns,
security weaknesses) and strong, unambiguous consensus for feature changes
might be actionable prior to IETF 108. More contentious philosophical
concerns are best left for long-term consideration by SHMOO.

Regards,

Martin Duke

On behalf of the IESG

[CHAIRS] https://ietf.org/how/meetings/108/session-chair-guide/

[I-D.duke] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-duke-shmoo-virtual-hum/

[PARTICIPANTS] https://ietf.org/how/meetings/108/session-participant-guide/

[SHMOO] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/shmoo/documents/

[TEST_SITE] https://jsfiddle.net/Jay_Daley/yqgr9pnb/