[AG-TECH] NCSA venues

[Shawn Davis]

Hello,
The purpose of NCSA's venues isn't quite the same as that of ANL's 
venues.  Rather than our venues being used for casual hangouts, they are 
intended to be used for formal, scheduled meetings.  Our venues server 
implementation aids in this goal by providing a way to launch the meeting, 
rather than enter the venue.  Additionally, with further enhancements to 
our venues server, we are making it more difficult for people to casually 
walk in on a meeting while also providing secure functionality such as ACLs 
and encryption.  These additional features are based around a meeting and 
its designated participants.
Could you explain why you'd like to see our venues linked directly on ANL's 
venues server?
To preserve the concept of joining a meeting and to maintain access control 
(as much as can be provided with AG 1.x), I'd prefer not to have our venues 
added to ANL's venues server.
As always, I'm open to opposing views and additional suggestions.
-Shawn


At 02:17 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:
>--- Tom Coffin wrote:
>Would it be possible to get links to the NCSA venues from the
>ANL Virtual Venue lists - maybe as another level in the
>Instiututional venues under NCSA?????
>__________________________________________________________
>Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>--- end of quote ---
>
>hi,
>
>i'd second that request.
>
>thanks,
>
>-gurcharan
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>Gurcharan S. Khanna, Associate Director
>Research Computing, Dartmouth College
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