Re: Laugh Test: xcon BOF

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On onsdag, juni 18, 2003 23:20:57 -0700 Mark Handley <mjh@icir.org> wrote:

> > The following items are specifically out-of-scope:
> > - Voting
> > - Multicast media (due to security concerns)
> > - Fully distributed conferences
> > - Loosely-coupled conferences (no central point of control)
> > - Far-end device control
> > - Protocol used between the conference controller and the mixer(s)
> > - Capabilities negotiation of the mixer(s)
> > - Master-slave cascaded conferences
>
> I have no problem with narrowly defining the focus of such a proposed
> WG, but this seems to go a little too far.  In particular, I don't see
> any reason to prohibit the use of multicast for media distribution.
was the intent of the proposers in prohibiting multicast that you would 
have a hammer to get the "just use multicast" crowd to shut up?

I have a perception that there's a group of people who have the automatic 
linkage "conferencing means multicast", and wonder if the proposer may be a 
person who is fed up with discussing with them.... I may be unkind to both.

               Harald