Dear Mr. Campos-Neto,
At 12:46 +0200 02/09/19, Campos, Simao wrote:
it seems that these problems with the PictureTel site keep recurring.
This particular thing first. This is a "known problem" and under control of the Polycom administrator. Another fact is the Mr. David Lindberg recently informed us that this site would be closed at the end of this year and transferring it to IMTC, like JVT group's site, is under negotiation.
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In this sense, I would like to investigate with you what would be your feeling about migrating all the material that is now available in the PicTel FTP site into such an area hosted by the ITU, created for SG 16.
Considering the importance of embracing non-ITU members (receiving participation and contributions from them, promoting the ITU works to them, and more importantly encouraging them to implement ITU-T standards), we have been using the Intel's private mailing list and the PictureTel's ftp site instead of the ITU TIES ones. I believe this has worked well for the benefits of ITU.
If it is a problem to ITU, then the bottom line should be the password be publicizable. Actually the first site that Graphics Communication Laboratories (my previous work place) provided during 1995-1998 before PictureTel worked like that. However, the barrier should be as low as possible as Christian argues.