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

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

I have never really had cause to think about this before as this is the
first time I have been MeetEchoing into WGs from inside the conference
hotel. This was largely because I did other things during lunch breaks and
went to my room to eat so as to comply with the mask requirement.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 4:08 PM Ole Jacobsen <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Ole J. Jacobsen
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