[ih] 1992 Kobe striptease video?

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Thu Oct 13 19:29:05 PDT 2011


HI Steve! I did see a video from someone some time ago but not recently.

vint



On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org> wrote:
> Vint,
>
> There were, indeed, video cameras in operation at the July 1992 IETF
> in Cambridge because that was the first meeting where video of some
> sessions was transmitted via IP multicast.  (The prior meeting in San
> Diego was the first with audio over IP multicast.)  I know that at
> some point in the series of media multicasts from IETF we began
> recording the video to tape so that we could replay the recording for
> remote receivers in other time zones, but I do not recall whether such
> recording began with that first video multicast.  I have looked back
> through my email regarding the equipment setup for that session, and I
> don't see VCRs mentioned.
>
> For a while I was storing a bunch of the VHS tapes from the IETF
> meetings that were recorded, but then at one point I turned them all
> over to you, Vint, for archiving.
>
>                                                        -- Steve
>
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Vint Cerf wrote:
>
>> I think the likely meeting time would have been July 1992 in the
>> Cambridge meeting.
>>
>> vint
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:58 AM, John Klensin <jklensin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
>> >> while at ARIN a couple of us tried to find a video of the "IP on
>> >> Everything" striptease I felt compelled to perform at the IETF in 1992
>> >> in Kobe. At one time, someone sent me a pointer to a video of that
>> >> event but I have not succeeded in turning it up in extensive Google
>> >> searches. Would anyone on this list happen to know whether a video was
>> >> preserved?
>> >
>> > Vint, I don't know about whether there is video.  It was a little
>> > early for us to be doing that systematically.  But, in case it helps
>> > to find it if it did exist, it wasn't in Kobe -- as far as I can tell,
>> > the IETF has never actually met there although the IAB, famously, did.
>> > Probably San Diego (IETF 23) or Washington (IETF 25).
>> >
>> >     john
>




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