[technology taskforce] Transitioning ICANN's Remote Participation Platform to Zoom

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Thu Apr 4 06:26:59 UTC 2019


Thanks for following-up Gisella - that's good news and that's 50% of my
concerns resolved.
:-)

Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 04/04/2019 00:40, Gisella Gruber wrote:
>
> Dear Olivier,
>
>  
>
> Just confirming that the issue with regards to order of raised hands
> has now been resolved.
>
>  
>
> We are working on the implementation of zoom on our At-Large calls.
>
>  
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gisella
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>  
>
> *From: *ttf <ttf-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Olivier
> MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 3 April 2019 at 23:30
> *To: *Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com>, Technology
> Taskforce WG <ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [technology taskforce] Transitioning ICANN's Remote
> Participation Platform to Zoom
>
>  
>
> Dear Judith,
>
> the problem is that the SSAC is mostly people from developed
> countries. My biggest two concerns about Zoom are (a) the lack of
> ordering of hands up when people put their hand up and (b) the lack of
> chat history when you enter a zoom room: you cannot read the
> discussions that have already taken place, so it's hard to find out
> references that have already been put in the chat. Plus there appears
> to be less windows in Zoom than in Adobe Connect - but perhaps a more
> extensive use of sharing of documents & further "notes" windows could
> take care of that.
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 03/04/2019 23:59, Judith Hellerstein wrote:
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>     HI Olivier,
>
>     The ICANN Meetings team has been working with Zoom to correct
>     those issues and I believe they have worked on them as they would
>     not have made the switch without doing this work.  In the blog
>     Ashwin writes that the SSAC had been using zoom the entire time. 
>     We need to hear more about this from them and the TTF has been
>     working closely with Sara Caplis from ICANN's IT team and with our
>     Liaison Mark Seagal.  We plan to have them on a next TTF call to
>     talk about this switch and this will be a good opportunity to ask
>     these questions to them and see what answers they can provide
>
>     Best,
>
>     Judith
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>     On 4/4/2019 12:41 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
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>         Dear Dev,
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>         thanks for reporting this. A while ago, when Adobe Connect was
>         faced with security problems, ICANN briefly interrupted the
>         use of Adobe Connect and replaced it with both the use of
>         Webex and Zoom. The result was not particularly positive and
>         the vast majority of people were happy to return to Adobe
>         Connect, which is a lot more powerful than Webex and at least
>         keeps some form of order to the order in which people put
>         their hands up. Zoom has some serious shortfalls for meetings
>         with a large number of people --- and it does not offer local
>         dial up in many countries around the world.
>         I am very surprised about this choice.
>
>         How do you all rate Zoom vs. Adobe Connect?
>
>         Kindest regards,
>
>         Olivier
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>         On 03/04/2019 23:09, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
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>             just as Adobe is starting to switch to HTML5 from Flash
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>              
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>              
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>             https://www.icann.org/news/blog/transitioning-icann-s-remote-participation-platform-to-zoom
>             [icann.org]
>             <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_blog_transitioning-2Dicann-2Ds-2Dremote-2Dparticipation-2Dplatform-2Dto-2Dzoom&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=ds9md1zoepmwqw2nfk-Vs9ssxn1I3jPs97ekKkctEkM&m=zQtqaRXxPzoIbGVUmi9avmSFJnswzXy_sUXLSYyR6Eg&s=aV8J5n3bzFrPm_kbLmGbUPB04jLI7e_YGxlJlIz3d9E&e=>
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>              
>
>             After careful consideration, ICANN org has decided to
>             transition our official remote participation platform from
>             Adobe Connect to Zoom. In January 2019, we entered into a
>             contract with Zoom to license its product for widespread
>             deployment. Plans are being executed now so that we can
>             completely replace Adobe Connect & PGi by ICANN65 in
>             Marrakech, Morocco. Our intent is to run ICANN65 using
>             Zoom as our sole web conference platform.
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