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Re: [vmeet] TOOL: webex group experiment

Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org> Fri, 17 April 2009 16:33 UTC

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Dave CROCKER wrote:
>
>
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> As far as I can see, the phrase "Cisco has donated WebEx to the IETF"
>> (so that IETF participants can use it free of charge) does not imply
>> that "WebEx is already the conference tool of the IETF".
>
> +1
>
>
> 1. A limited set of IETF folks have experience with it.  IMO, we need
> broader exposure of a tool before deciding on its use.  The session a
> week from today is intended to help that.
>
> 2. It is not clear whether it can or cannot satisfy the IETF's
> functional requirements, since we haven't said what they are yet.
>
> 3. We haven't compared it against other choices.  (I could be wrong, but
> my impression is that the donation is not unbounded in time and scale.
> I thought it was for an evaluation period, but I might have misunderstood.)

If the donation is not unbounded then I withdraw my question.

>
> 4. "Free" isn't good enough if the use of the capability falls short.
>
> d/


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