Re: Meetings and IRC

Hi Doug,

I don't think it is fair to assume that everybody, globally, can dial 
in, to a US number. Especially non-sponsored invited experts, who will 
not have anyone pay for their phone bill. But if services like Google 
Hangouts exist to offer free calls, then good.

That said, I'd assume the W3C being an organization to develop **Web** 
standards, keeping POTS as a requirement sounds odd.

But just noting an opinion, if Hangouts works, fine :)

Br,
Jason


On 03.11.2015 07:42, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Jason–
>
> Most people wouldn't consider POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) to be 
> a proprietary service. You don't need to use Google Hangouts or any 
> other proprietary service to dial in; if you have phone service that 
> lets you call the US for free (or are willing to pay the international 
> call costs out of pocket), you can do that.
>
> One of our considerations for choosing a voice-call system was that it 
> should include the ability for participants to dial in with POTS. This 
> is not something that WebRTC can currently offer (at least, not for 
> any price that W3C can afford… there are probably services out there 
> that do offer WebRTC+POTS).
>
> If you have other suggestions for voice systems that would better suit 
> the needs of W3C participants, we'd welcome suggestions.
>
> Regards–
> –Doug
>
> On 11/2/15 3:25 PM, Jason Robinson wrote:
>> Interesting, thanks for the tip. I guess in the absence of an open
>> platform, using a proprietary service to connect to another proprietary
>> service is an acceptable hack-around ;)
>>
>> Will try to join through that then, thanks.
>>
>> Br,
>> Jason
>>
>> On 02.11.2015 22:16, Ben wrote:
>>> There is a dial in number so you can use the telephone and this works
>>> with google hangouts which is free calling to the US from anywhere in
>>> the world I believe. Also, works on linux.:)
>>

-- 
Br,
Jason Robinson
mail@jasonrobinson.me
https://jasonrobinson.me

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