Re: The Sheraton was a good choice for IETF 114 but....

[Ole Jacobsen <[e-mail]>]

Once upon a time in a conference hotel, far, far away (Stockholm).

The IETF used camera feeds from a couple of the larger meeting rooms and provided this
on the in-house hotel channels. Work really nicely, but has of course been somewhat
supplanted by our own devices watching YouTube livestreams or Meetecho.

I like the idea of a general "preferences profile" ...

Ole

> On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:27, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> I thought the Sheraton was a fine choice of hotel. There were some limitations due to the pandemic and the Marriott and Hilton brands offer slightly nicer decor but at this point I have spent so much time living in hotels that I really don't care very much about the precise quality of the granite surround of the sink.
> 
> There was one thing that did strike me as having room for improvement. And here, the answer lies in ourselves.
> 
> If you used the in-room TV rather than ignoring it (as I usually do), you will have noted that not only did it provide an easy means of plugging in a HDMI cable (hooray!), it also provided an easy way to connect to my NetFlix, Pandora etc. subscriptions. Another thing I very much appreciated in the Sheraton is that they did not reset my room thermostat to freezing each day which seems to be the norm in US hotels.
> 
> Now don't get me wrong, that is really really good, much better than I have seen at any other hotel. And yet...
> 
> What if...
> 
> What if when I book a hotel room or rent a car, it could be automatically provisioned with all the subscriptions, etc. etc. that I hold?
> 
> Also, rather more generally, I do not actually have different preferences for room temperature according to the season (they vary by time of day but not by much). Many hotels seem to think I want the room to be freezing cold in the summer and boiling hot in winter. If I wanted to do that, I would simply move to Australia and not bother with HVAC at all.
> 
> So if that information could simply be downloaded into the thermostat, that would do nicely.
> 
> One more thing which is a bit more IETF specific (but not a lot) is that the big limitation for using a TV for teleconferencing right now is that (1) TV's don't have cameras and (2) I am absolutely not going to buy any TV that does have a camera unless it is fully visible and comes with a hardware lens cover.
> 
> So I want to be able to use my mobile phone camera for video in a WebRTC interaction taking place on a separate device. Not just in meetecho, as a general WebRTC capability.
> 
> 
> These all seem to me to be problems that require a mixture of open specifications and some intelligent consideration of security concerns.
> 

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