A different approach to remote meetings / Mesh videos

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

The IETF has not changed its meeting format since I attended IETF 34 in
Dallas back in 1995. We have developed much remote presence technology
since. Surely we should start using it.

Do we really need to meet in plenary session three times a year? Is the
model where IETF meeting time is limited to brief status updates and most
of the work is 'taken to the list' optimal ?

Maybe we need to change our existing model or maybe we need to keep it
unchanged and supplement it somehow. Remote meeting attendance is better
than nothing. But does it really help for me to wake up at 2am to listen to
a complex technical talk? Perhaps all meeting at the same time has to be
rethought, not just meeting in the same place.

Perhaps what we could do is to move some of the technical content out of
the meetings altogether and put it up on the Web. To test this theory and
also to promote my efforts to make computers easier to use by making them
more secure, I have begun filming a series of videos explaining the Mesh
technology. These are currently available through the links below and I
will work out some way to distribute the material in a downloadable format
(2k/4K) so people can take them for 'in flight entertainment' on that 24
hour flight to Singapore.

The channel is here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaWFcKKJOO8KBzvlbdHtK8Q

The material itself is currently unlisted but can be accessed directly from
the links below.

For the purposes of this experiment, the four videos have very different
material:

Mesh 1: The Mesh at 10,000 ft, explains the requirements the project is
designed to address without drilling down into the technical details. It is
the sort of pitch I give to potential investors / stakeholders.
https://youtu.be/pPuV1Wz3CIY

Mesh 2: The Devil is in the Deployment, is not technical at all. It is
explaining just why I think a proposal of this scope it entirely feasible
and describes the strategies I copied from Tim Berners-Lee to get it
deployed.
https://youtu.be/mUoFtxWc28w

Mesh 3: How the Mesh works, is a more technical overview of how the various
parts of the Mesh are designed to work together.  The sort of thing an IAB
plenary tech talk might be. Technical knowledge is assumed but not deep
understanding.
https://youtu.be/mv2edt7HT4g

Mesh 4: Meta-cryptography for key splitting is a graduate level technical
presentation giving material that is not in the cryptography textbooks
(yet). The sort of presentation I might give at MIT CSAIL etc.
https://youtu.be/zY7ygPnpDzk

Given the IETF preference for a minimalist approach to presentation, there
are no PowerPoint slides at all.

The remaining videos will be posted as they are completed, these will
include technical drill downs on each of the three technologies I am
proposing and an explanation of how we can then apply the Mesh to create
novel and interesting security solutions for the Web, SSH, OpenPGP, S/MIME
etc.

The videos will be going out to the public shortly. They are all Creative
Commons with attribution