Re: Required Google Account to review an IETF meeting. Really?

[George Michaelson <[e-mail]>]

I think without being overly legalistic we're blurring distinctions between
publicly freely available and available without registration and/or
identity.

I don't like the change in behaviour by YouTube either.

(In a purely personal capacity, this hasn't been discussed by the LLC Board)

George

On Tue, 3 June 2025, 6:18 pm S Moonesamy, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Benoit,
> At 08:09 AM 28-05-2025, Benoit Claise wrote:
> >I want to listen to an IETF interim meeting recording.
> >Note: in this case, an NMOP interim meeting to create the meeting minutes.
> >
> >So I am logged in the datatracker, I follow the link from
> >https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nmop/meetings/ and click on the
> >Meetecho session recording, which leads to the ietf.org site,
> >specifically
> >https://meetecho-player.ietf.org/playout/?session=IETF-NMOP-20250521-1400
> >And now, I received the message that I must have a Google account to
> >view this video: "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"
> >
> >I don't believe this is right to force me to sign me into YouTube in
> >order to see IETF-related content.
> >Am I the only thinking along those lines?
>
> I tried accessing the URL yesterday.  It did not require a YouTube
> login.  I did a quick search and found this:
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255851527
>
> There was a policy change in or around 2017 to provide better data to
> the IETF community and leadership.  There weren't a lot of objections
> to that change.  Anyway, the above is somewhat of a different
> issue.  The IETF Administration LLC's video hosting service might be
> having some difficulty distinguishing between people and automated
> harvesters.  I don't see why I should log into a service to view
> something which is described as "publicly available".
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>