Proposed Group: CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group
The CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group has been proposed by Larry Masinter:
A clearinghouse for experience and guidelines for people who are suddenly called to avoid travel or meetings, work-at-home or do classes online. Focus on current capabilities and future needs.
You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.
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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
One contribution is the “ManyCouches” group at IETF https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manycouches-completely-virtual-meetings which outlines issues to discuss for IETF meetings.
As the basis for a checklist?
A lot of organizations and companies are publishing guidelines and usage notes for their staffs, so I think we might start on surveying what they are doing in different areas of focus (different kinds of meetings and classes).
Just some ideas about what would be helpful.
At present we have a large number of intranet applications to support remote participation: Zoom, Skype, etc.
What we lack is the ability to communicate securely across organizations. And that is OK because you need to deploy three corner solutions (Alice->Signal->Bob) before you can move to four corner interoperable systems like SMTP.
But we are now at the point we need to federate and move to that four corner model. And we need security to make that possible.
So I have been looking at all the crypto that was developed in the years AFTER the Web was released. And there are solutions there that address those problems.