Re: What can IETF do? Re: Further update on COVID-19

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 26 February 2020 20:16 UTC

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On 2020-02-26, at 21:12, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@xalgorithms.org> wrote:
> 
> RE: "how can the ietf facilitate the hallway track?"
> 
> It just started, here: https://meet.jit.si/IETF107

Good first approximation.

A real hallway has the concept of proximity, though, with some social rules, and all the serendipities of running into the right people.
Some of that should not be too hard to model using WebRTC…
No new protocols needed, just good application development.

Grüße, Carsten