WWW Fall 94 -- Multicast Chair Remarks to the Audience

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING REMARKS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH MULTICAST SESSION:

[YOUR PRELIMINARY REMARKS HERE]

Before proceeding with the session, everyone in the hall should be aware that this meeting is being sent out live over the Internet using the multicasting backbone (or MBONE). Remote participants sitting in front of their own workstations, or persons attending remote conference sites such as that set up at the National Library of Medicine, where a workstation screen is being projected in a large room, will be receiving live audio and video from this session.

Please keep in mind that MBONE technology is experimental; to make this experience rewarding for everyone, we need to have everyone's help. The conference organizers ask the following:

To the local audience:

Please bear with any technical glitches that may arise during the course of the session. During question time, please preface your question by stating your name and institutional affiliation. This is helpful for people in the room, and even more so for remote listeners. It will be part of my job as chair to remind you about this if you forget.

To remote participants:

We ask that you bear in mind that numerous factors influence the quality of the program you receive, many of which are out of our control. In particular, using a television camera to transmit from the projection screen at the front of the room can result in a received image that is hard to read. Audio may break up, so that you will have to listen carefully and sometimes rely on context to understand the speaker. During question periods, we will solicite questions from remote participants, and try to interleave them with questions from the local audience. Please wait to ask your question until the chair explicitly asks for questions from MBONE/Internet listeners. The person sitting in front of the workstation which is doing the MBONE transmission, whom we call the "interlocutor," will act as your stand-in in the conference hall, and collaborate with the chair to handle incoming questions smoothly. Our interlocutor for this session is <FILL IN NAME HERE>. When you first try to speak, it will take a moment for the interlocutor to enable your incoming audio signal. The interlocutor will then acknowledge you by speaking out your network address, and then you should start speaking. Please begin your question by stating your name, affiliation, and geographical location.

To presenters:

Please speak slowly and clearly, and remember that MBONE video images take a while -- as long as thirty seconds -- to be completely constructed at the receiving end, so when you change what appears on the projection screen, please leave the projected images alone long enough to be viewed clearly by remote participants. Please avoid frequent jerky movements of overhead slides or projected computer displays.