Re: ditch voip/sip

Zoom offers a phone dial-in option as an alternative which hopefully would
cover members in more restrictive IT environments?

I also struggled multiple times to join via SIP, so I would be happy with
Zoom too.

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 9:17 PM Wayne Chang <wyc@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> A Zoom SIP connector seems to available for a fee to allow those users to
> join:
> https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363273-Getting-Started-With-H-323-SIP-Room-Connector
>
> Also, note that it seems Zoom doesn't support chatbots within the live
> meeting chat (
> https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-chatbots-to-join-meeting-chats/8875),
> although we could still have parity with the join/part notifications we
> have in IRC today using the Meetings Events webhooks (
> https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/webhook-reference/meeting-events/participant-joined-meeting).
> So if we were to use Zoom, we may need to rewrite this integration and
> should keep all the chat and scribing within IRC for max accessibility.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020, at 3:07 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote:
>
> We also have the problem that many of our members, including federal
> employees, are restricted from running Zoom on corporate computers.
>
> So, while I do like the idea of a standard screen sharing solution, I'd
> lean towards something that doesn't isolate our members who have IT
> departments with a sensitivity to Zoom's privacy and security issues.
>
> -j
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020, at 10:17 AM, MXS Insights wrote:
>
> Kim, you may also want to look at the auto-transcription capability.  It
> is being used on the Secure Data Storage WG, and it has convinced the
> community there.
>
> Michael Shea
>
> On May 27, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Kim Hamilton <kimdhamilton@gmail.com
> <kimdhamilton@gmail..com>> wrote:
>
> Thank you so much Balázs. When we've discussed this in the past, we had a
> few concerns around switching (which I've managed to block out), but the
> big factor that stands out is cost. DIF's support would be a tremendous
> help.
>
> I think all of our other concerns would be addressed by doing zoom + irc
> (for queueing/minutes). As a bonus, zoom recordings are way easier than
> what we do now (which is the reason some recordings are still
> to-be-backfilled).
>
> Chairs: we'll need to make sure we're not forgetting anything; let's
> discuss.
>
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:03 AM Kostas Karasavvas <kkarasavvas@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 9:29 AM MXS Insights <mxsinsights@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Michael Shea
>
> > On May 26, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Nikos Fotiou <fotiou@aueb.gr> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I would like to bring up again the voip/sip issue. At least in my case
> it is impossible to connect using sip and I always end up dialing in using
> skype. I am wondering why sip is still the used method, especially given
> that ZOOM is used for other calls, even in the same group (e.g.,
> did-resolution). I read in the mailing list archives that one of the
> reasons is audio recording, but AFAICT the audio recordings from most of
> the last meetings are missing (e.g.,
> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2020-05-19/audio.ogg
> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2020-04-21/audio.ogg
> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2020-04-07/audio.ogg and many others)
> >
> > Best,
> > Nikos
>
>
>
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