[AfrICANN-discuss] Re: FW: ? - online place to follow the live
ICANN meeting
Dr Paulos Nyirenda
paulos at sdnp.org.mw
Wed Feb 13 10:45:47 SAST 2008
Thanks.
On 13 Feb 2008 at 8:27, Gabriella Schittek wrote:
>
> Paulos,
>
> I asked Steve Conte, who is responsible for the technical matters during
> meetings to explain why these problems occurred. See below.
>
> Gabi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Conte [mailto:steve.conte at icann.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:15 AM
> To: gabriella.schittek at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [ccnso-council] Re: ? - online place to follow the live ICANN
> meeting
>
> Hi Gabriella,
>
> Thanks for giving me a chance to respond to this.
>
> We have been faced with many challenges here.
>
> The week before the meeting there were a total of five undersea fibre
> cuts in the asia/pacific region. Because of this, a lot of the
> traffic of the region has been aggregated and is all traveling through
> the remaining fibre paths (all at capacity at the moment). As the
> fibres are replaced, it will certainly impact the region (in a
> positive way!) but unlike when your computer crashes at home,
> deploying the "tech support" to a cut undersea fibre can take up to a
> week to arrive at the destination.
>
> We've run into some hurdles with the local transit as well in the way
> of trying to get them to sort out our AS number and properly announce
> (and transit) our traffic.
>
> We have also had a challenge with stable power in the hotel. There
> have been a number of power outages (either partial or full) and blown
> circuits. Some of these have directly impacted the ability to feed
> power to the routers we are using to egress the hotel. Though we have
> UPS (uninterruptible power supplies), we've found a number of them
> have been mis-wired ore plugged into the hotel UPS, which can cause a
> "blowback" and cut the power.
>
> Although service has not been stable, the team that is here locally
> has done an amazing job of adapting to each new challenge and
> providing a solution in the most timely fashion that they were able to.
>
> I do apologize for any inconvenience your council has experienced
> (both local and remote). I assure you we are doing everything within
> our power to try to keep the services running so that the meetings can
> be effective.
>
> Steve
>
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ccnso-council at icann.org [mailto:owner-ccnso-council at icann.org
> > ]
> > On Behalf Of Dr Paulos Nyirenda
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:41 AM
> > To: Pierre Ouedraogo; africann at afrinic.net
> > Cc: ccnso-council at icann.org
> > Subject: [ccnso-council] Re: ? - online place to follow the live ICANN
> > meeting
> >
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I think the quality of the ICANN meeting webcast from New Delhi has
> > been poor, many of the webacst links do not work and when they work
> > quality is poor in both audio and video.
> >
> > We have a great opportunity this week of compairing this ICANN
> > meeting webcast with the live webcast for the NASA Atlantis space
> > shuttle launch and flight that you can view, with alternatives, at
> > http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
> >
> > The poor webcasting service hurts participation. This is further
> > complicated by the significant difficulties being faced this week to
> > use teleconferencing services for this meeting as well.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paulos
> > ======================
> > Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> > .mw ccTLD
> > http://www.registrar.mw
> >
> >
> > On 12 Feb 2008 at 20:58, Pierre Ouedraogo wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> En ce qui concerne le chat, il faut créer un compte (si vous n'en
> >> avez pas) à:
> >> https://public.icann.org/user/login
> >> ou juste vous connecter.
> >>
> >> Mais si c'est pour suivre en audio ou en webcast, il faut aller sur
> >> la page de la session concernée.
> >> par exemple, le public forum de jeudi sera en webcat/audiocast, il
> >> faut aller sur la page du jour à partir duprogramme:
> >> http://delhi.icann.org/node/99
> >> et en cliqant sur jeudi, tu arrives à la page:
> >> http://delhi.icann.org/event/2008/02/14/day/all/all/1
> >> et peux maintenant choisir ta session, par exmple le public forum:
> >> http://delhi.icann.org/14feb08/public-forum
> >> et sur cette nouvelles page, cliquer sur webcast ou la langue
> >> souhaitée pour l'audio.
> >>
> >> Il y a deux problèmes à considérer:
> >> 1) le décalage horaire de 4h30 (il est actuellement 19h55 GMT, et il
> >> est 1h25 du matin à New Delhi)
> >> 2) certaines sessions ne sont pas en webcast/audicast comme les
> >> réunions du GAC qui sont fermées.
> >>
> >> J'espère que ces quelques lignes aideront un peu àtraverser la
> >> "jungle" .... en tous cas, ce sera pour al suite à demain car
> >> je dois dormir!!!
> >>
> >> Amitiés
> >> PO
> >>
> >> 2008/2/12, philemon <philemon at drtvnet.cg>:
> >> Bonjour Pierre O.
> >>
> >> Effectivement comme l'a dit Paulos hier, le site web de Icann/Delhi
> >> ne presente pas des informations claires sur comment se connecter par
> >> 'chat' pour éventuellement suivre/participer... Si vous savez ceux
> >> qui peuvent nous donner plus de details à ce sujet, prière de leur
> >> faire signe à ce sujet, car il y a certainement desgens qui voudront
> >> bien en faire usage.
> >>
> >> Merci
> >>
> >> Philémon
> >>
> >> KISSANGOU Jean Philemon
> >> Directeur Technique DRTVnet (ISP)
> >> BP. 2852 Brazzaville Congo
> >> Tel. 002425360396
> >> www.drtvnet.cg
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Pierre Ouedraogo
> >> To: paulos at sdnp.org.mw ; africann at afrinic.net
> >> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:07 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] ? - online place to follow the
> >> live
> >> ICANNmeeting
> >> Hi Paulos,
> >>
> >> To access the wecast and audicast, you should click on the name of
> >> the session on the schedule and you will be redirected on the
> >> session
> >> page. For exemple, this morning public forum was accessible
> >> remotely
> >> at:
> >> http://delhi.icann.org/11feb08/public-forum
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> PO
> >>
> >> 2008/2/11, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw>:
> >>
> >> Anne-Rachel,
> >>
> >> Is there an online place or link where one can follow the live
> >> ICANN
> >> meeting taking place in New Delhi?
> >>
> >> The meeting site at http://delhi.icann.org/ seems a little more
> >> difficult to use than usual and does not seem to have the usual
> >> adequate details.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Paulos
> >> ======================
> >> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> >> .mw ccTLD
> >> http://www.registrar.mw
> >>
> >>
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