Proposal to discontinue live mp3 audio streams at IETF meetings
Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Thu, 01 October 2020 14:31 UTC
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From: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
Subject: Proposal to discontinue live mp3 audio streams at IETF meetings
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We propose to discontinue producing live mp3 audio streams for IETF meetings, starting with IETF 109 and we want to hear from the community before we do. At many past meetings we have produced live mp3 streams for each session. These steams have been associated with physical meeting rooms, and appeared before and during the session as a link on the agenda page to a URL like 'http://mp3.conf.meetecho.com/ietf/ietf<some_number_associated_with_the_room>.m3u'. For the last several meetings, these have only been available as a live stream. Recordings of that stream have not been made available after the meeting. The full video recording provided by Meetecho has served as the way to listen to (or watch) any given session after the fact. Further, for the last several meetings, the live streams have seen very light use, on the order of 10 uses for IETF 108. Now that we are holding more meetings online, we have a requirement to allow meetings to run outside their scheduled times. Allowing the live streams to run outside their scheduled times will require changing how they are represented, to no longer be associated with "rooms" or "tracks". The code refactor at both the datatracker and at meetecho to support would not be a huge effort, but it also would not be tiny. Instead, we feel that removing this complexity, recognizing that the regular meetecho connection and recordings satisfy the need, is the better use of our resources. That holds true even for future in-person meetings. There are several points that have been considered while arriving at this proposal: * Chairs use the recordings to fill in minutes. For the last several meetings, the chairs have been using the Meetecho recordings for this purpose. Recordings of the live mp3 streams haven't been available. * Some participants (especially ADs) want to listen to more than one meeting at a time. Meetecho allows joining multiple sessions. * Some participants may not have the bandwidth or a new enough computer to run meetecho. The use of the mp3 streams has been very low at the last several meetings. This population isn't using the mp3 streams to address the posited limitations. If this is a concern that some people think they will experience then we can look at asking Meetecho to allow sending only audio (muting all video). * This removes a mechanism that allowed people to listen to a session in real-time without paying a registration fee. There will be ongoing discussion and tuning of the meeting registration structure. In the meantime, the fee waiver program is available and being improved. Please send comments by 16 Oct 2020 either to tools-discuss@ietf.org or directly to rjsparks@nostrum.com.
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