> it would be an interesting experiment at, say, SIGCOMM.  however, we
> used to try something like that years ago at the IETF, and the
> experience there was that people "listening" were not very (often)
> moved to engage in dialog, and (at least with the tools of the time)
> it was also a very clunky process.

Without taking a position, I will note that I have recently been able to
participate a little in IETF meetings with the current audiocasts and a
jabber room for communicating with the room (sometimes via some kind
sole relaying my ranting to the room and sometimes just to the folk in
the jabber room).

allman