Re: [107all] Update on IETF 107 Vancouver and COVID-19

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 05/03/2020 à 11:35, Alessandro Amirante a écrit :
> No. It's not a matter of phone speaker. It's a matter of phone *mic* 
> capturing whatever comes out of the *room* speakers.

I agree.

When I speak on the phone mic in the room it gets relayed to the 
loudspeakers and back into the mic: positive loop, repeat, augment, noise.

The solution to avoid that positive loop is to make the phone mic to 
have very close pickup by hardware design (less flexible membrane, no 
tube, etc), and/or to reduce the amplifier volume of the phone mic. 
Reporters along tracks of F1 racing use such kinds of close pickup mics, 
and not their smartphones.

The first solution wont work (close  pickup mics in smartphones) because 
that's the way they are: the smarphone mics pick sound at more than at 
1cm.  The second (reduce amplifier output) is possible, but needs 
programming.  Also, this latter solution might make one need to speak 
very loud in the mic, which boils down to speaking loud in the room, 
might disturb people nearby.

It might be possible to tweak these parameters by trial and error.

It might be the case that people who complained about it did really have 
a bad experience and already tried to tweak these without success.

But, what I would complain about these smartphones (I dont have one), is 
that one moves the problem of bacteria in saliva ('spit'(?) ('pop'?)). 
 From the microphone in the room to the microphone in the smartphone. 
Owners of smartphones do touch their smartphones on all sides.  Then 
they touch other things, like handles of doors, etc.  It's not their 
fault, that's how we all are.  But that's how it is.

Alex

> 
> Alessandro
> 
> Il 05/03/20 11:27, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ ha scritto:
>> Unless you mute your phone speaker?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jordi
>> @jordipalet
>>
>> El 5/3/20 10:58, "ietf en nombre de Alessandro Amirante" 
>> <[e-mail] en nombre de [e-mail]> escribió:
>>
>>      This is a *very* bad idea. It would generate a lot of echo as 
>> your voice
>>      will be captured again from your phone's mic when it comes out 
>> from the
>>      room's loudspeakers.
>>      Alessandro
>>      Il 05/03/20 10:49, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ ha scritto:
>>      > We don't need that!
>>      >
>>      > Everybody has a phone with microphones.
>>      >
>>      > We just need a small app that works in iPhone and Android, that 
>> connects to the Meetecho, because this is already connected to the audio!
>>      >
>>      > Maybe even this app is not needed if you can use the standard 
>> remote participation from the cellular device (I never tried).
>>      >
>>      > We don't need even to queue in the Mic, the chairs can give the 
>> voice to each one in sequence (
>>      >
>>      > Regards,
>>      > Jordi
>>      > @jordipalet
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > El 5/3/20 10:31, "ietf en nombre de Alexandre Petrescu" 
>> <[e-mail] en nombre de [e-mail]> 
>> escribió:
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >      Le 05/03/2020 à 04:45, Spencer Dawkins at IETF a écrit :
>>      >      > Warren,
>>      >      >
>>      >      > I'm seeing "I can help" messages on this list, which is 
>> admirable but
>>      >      > may not be the best way to meet this need. Could you 
>> chat with our
>>      >      > friends on the IESG and ask how they want to handle 
>> chairs who
>>      >      > (potentially suddenly) need onsite help?
>>      >      >
>>      >      > It seems like we need something where everyone can keep 
>> track of who is
>>      >      > helping who, and something we can keep up to date 
>> throughout the week..
>>      >      > Even a wiki page would be an improvement over mail 
>> messages with an
>>      >      > off-topic subject line.
>>      >
>>      >      If there were a wiki page, then I would like to put 
>> something in there:
>>      >      if there is a f2f meeting, with the usual microphones, 
>> then use
>>      >      microphone screens ('anti-pop') that are individual, and 
>> probably one use.
>>      >
>>      >      This could help as much as the other measures with hands, 
>> sanitizers, etc.
>>      >
>>      >      Alex
>>      >
>>      >      >
>>      >      > Best,
>>      >      >
>>      >      > Spencer
>>      >      >
>>      >      > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:17 PM Paul Wouters <[e-mail]
>>      >      > <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>      >      >
>>      >      >     L
>>      >      >     On Mar 4, 2020, at 19:33, Warren Kumari 
>> <[e-mail]
>>      >      >     <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>      >      >
>>      >      >>
>>      >      >>
>>      >      >>
>>      >      >>     Simply because the chairs cannot make it does not 
>> automatically
>>      >      >>     mean that the WG meeting is cancelled -- WGs chairs 
>> can ask the WG
>>      >      >>     secretary, or appoint a temporary secretary or just 
>> ask an
>>      >      >>     in-person participant to do the physical onsite 
>> things, like
>>      >      >>     bluesheets, pushing the big red button, etc..
>>      >      >
>>      >      >     I agree and I will happily volunteer to chair a 
>> meeting where needed.
>>      >      >
>>      >      >     Paul
>>      >      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
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