RE: [wg-review] [TELECON] Disappointment.

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

One of the topics of the teleconference is removing its ad hoc nature and
getting some long-term planning involved. Ad hoc conferences, with direct
dial-ins, are probably the single most expensive means to do this sort of
thing.

One approach is to use www.dialpad.com, for ppl outside the US, to call into
a US based conference carrier. However, that sort of approach needs planning
and a regular procedure needs to be set up. This is being considered as a
ways& means discussion, under the OUTREACH agenda topic. It is only one
possible approach, among many. I defer to that forthcoming discussion.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil King [mailto:yofelipe@excite.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:26 AM
> To: sotiris@hermesnetwork.com; wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-review] [TELECON] Disappointment.
> 
> 
> Agree with Sotiris on these points.  I have no budget for 
> this and no manner
> of doing it from my workplace, and yes, some are going to 
> have that part of
> the problem anytime we try to set a fixed time worldwide 
> (local conflict)I
> will look forward to printed reports of the call
> Phil King in Butte USA
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:36:37 -0500, sotiris@hermesnetwork.com wrote:
> 
> >  I tried getting a line through some of the discount 
> long-distance avenues
> 
> >  available.  Net2phone was having server troubles and I 
> couldn't establish
> an 
> >  account, 1010620 & 1015945 resulted only in busy signals, 
> and Bell Canada
> 
> >  wanted $1.37 /minute to put me through to Singapore. 
> Through the last
> hour 
> >  and a half, I have tried to get a reasonably affordable 
> line into the 
> >  teleconference, without success.  So... I just gave up! 
> >  
> >  To be frank, if I have to absorb long-distance costs to 
> share my ideas
> with 
> >  the WG via teleconference, then so much for a "bottom-up" 
> approach.  I 
> >  think "bottoms-up" is *much* more appropriate.  My 
> participation in the
> WG-
> >  Review has already resulted in some considerable 
> expenditure of my time, 
> >  resources, and energies.    
> >  
> >  I wish to state, for the record, that I found this entire 
> teleconference 
> >  *experience* to be quite an ill-conceived, hurried, and 
> badly executed 
> >  exercise on the whole.  I am seriously disappointed.
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >            Hermes Network, Inc. 
> >  
> >  
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> 
> Yo, Felipe (I, Phillip)
> Phil King
> Butte America
> (The Richest Hill On Earth)
> 
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