Re: [Manycouches] [Tools-discuss] Proposal to discontinue live mp3 audio streams at IETF meetings

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On 10/5/20 11:39 AM, Tom Pusateri wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-10-05, at 17:57, Tom Pusateri <pusateri=[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> I would support using Opus over MP3 but that is not the main obstacle. We need a way to map live streams to sessions in the API to restore widespread access to the streams.
>> Apologies for a stupid question:  Why do we need to have a limited number of sessions?  Can’t we make each WG its own session?
>>
>> Grüße, Carsten
> In the past (with physical meetings), the hardware to stream was set up in a meeting room and tied to that location throughout the week. There were typically 8 streams that didn’t change except for when rooms were reconfigured throughout the week to make bigger/smaller spaces.
>
> Once the stream number was tied to a room location, I was able to determine which sessions would be held in the room and know which stream to join for each session.
>
> So the limited number of streams is based on physical audio hardware.

This is the crux. If we do continue to support these streams (or 
something different, but meeting the purpose they were intended to 
serve), the software changes would be exactly in modelling what the 
streams are connected to. Most likely it would turn into a separate 
named stream per Session. If foobar met three times during the meeting, 
that would be three separate streams. We would remove the assumption 
that the streams are tied to a specific room, which will involve changes 
at the datatracker, in Meetecho, and in Tom's iphone app.

As I noted in the announcement, these changes aren't prohibitively 
expensive, but they aren't trivial either, and if there wasn't an actual 
_need_ for the streams, we would be better spending our time elsewhere.

Tom (and others) have made some arguments about why the usage statistics 
we have may not represent the actual desire to use the live streams.


>
> Tom
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