Report from the 128th AES Convention in London ================================================ (ver. c) TC-NAS meeting, May 24th, 2010 Attendees ========= Umberto Zanghieri (ZP Engineering) Thomas Sporer (Fraunhofer IDMT) Al Walker (Midas Klark Teknik Ltd) Robby Gurdan (UMAN gmbh) Philip Faulkes (Rhodes University) * Osedum Igumbor (Rhodes University) * Christiane Bangert (Music Media Verlag) Richard Foss (Rhodes University, UMAN) Ian Rudd (-) ** Peter Stevens (BBC R&D) Nathan Brock (UC San Diego) Michael Page (Tamesis Engineering) James Dibley (Rhodes University) * John Grant (Nine Tiles) Aki Makivirta (Genelec) * Steven Harris (BridgeCo) * = these have become TC-NAS members (thanks, Kevin) ** = unreachable ================================================ >>> 1. Discussion on Special JAES issue on Networking The first part of the meeting was attended also by John Vanderkooy and Bill McQuaide, in relation to a potential conflict with the planned International Conference in S. Diego on audio networking (see details below). The discussion included the following comments: * JAES is usually more technical than conferences, so contributions should be in line * maximum length of articles is limited for JAES, can be without limit for Int'l Conference * we should consider one year minimum for the CFP and review process * 10 articles can be a good target number * only a few proposals have been made on the TC-NAS reflector so far, maybe also due to the fact that no definitive dates were agreed * John and Bill mentioned that there are no specific reasons for selecting a time order between the two events No definitive position has been reached. It has been discussed the possibility to postpone the special JAES edition after the conference to March/April 2012, in order to differentiate sufficently the two call for papers. We should complete this discussion on the reflector. >>> 2. International Conference in S. Diego Nathan Brock provided updated information on an International Conference which was just approved. It is scheduled for early november 2011 in S. Diego, with a total duration of three days. Twenty to thirty papers and three or four major demonstrations are planned. Chris Chafe will be the paper chair, Nathan will be the convnetion chair. Topics of interest include broadcast, LAN transport, distributed performance, telepresence. The CFP should happen in nov/dec 2010. Nathan will circulate the CFP proposal as shown during the meeting. >>> 3. other networking related events Michael Page mentioned that a UK conference is being organized by the UK section for April 2011 on Audio I/O, with networking as one of the topics. It will be 1,5 days long, in London or a city near London, and a CFP is planned for June 2010. Umberto Zanghieri & Al Walker mentioned that PSNE/IE (ProSound NewsEurope, Installation europe) is working on a conference on networking (audio and lighting), planned for Autumn 2010 in London. >>> 4. IEEE-1722.1 working group status update Richard gave a status update of the recent activity within the recently formed IEEE-1722.1 working group, which is focusing on discovery and connection management; device control is also addressed, focusing more on simple control functions, rather than full fledged control. The WG is chaired by Matt Mora of Apple. Richard invited anyone interested to join the WG. >>> 5. Event suggestions The deadline for presenting workshop/tutorial proposals for the S. Francisco AES Convention is approaching fast (9th of June). A possible workshop on latency in Live Application was briefly mentioned by Umberto Zanghieri. Richard Foss indicated that he plans to repeat the successful workshop on Audio Control Protocols. Nathan Brock, after the meeting, mentioned he is considering a workshop with a preliminary title of "Professional Applications for Long-Distance Audio Networks". A previous proposal for a tutorial on networking was mentioned.