Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

[joel jaeggli <[e-mail]>]

On 12/2/12 8:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>> I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor
>>>> management discipline.
>>> i know it's a leap, but maybe presume people are adults
>> and that everyone of them has a microphone
> so we build our meetings around the fears, will someone speak
> unacceptably, will someone appeal, will someone pass gas in
> class?  next we can have the tsa screen people at the door.
currently we don't do it that way (hand everyone a mic) because it's 
infeasable.  Oddly I have none of the above fears.
> can we please play the upside.  there is a high road, let's
> take it.

I thought I was. Mic discipline exists because, we have big rooms that require sound reinforcement, and remote participants and a recording. So if you're concerned about being heard, or hearing or the historical record, you should be in favor of it in general

I've never noted the existence of a mic line at an IETF precluding 
statements which I find disagreeable, so I have trouble imagining them 
being used for that purpose.
> randy
>