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

[Hesham ElBakoury <[e-mail]>]

The noisy air conditioner has a mind of its own. It  wakes up and goes to
sleep based on uncontrolled timer which does not take into account whether
I am sleeping or awake. Perhaps there is away I do not know to control this
timer to suit my needs.

Hesham



On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 1:29 PM Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> 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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