SIP in higher education

[(Dennis Baron)]

There will be no call tomorrow.  The SIP.edu Workshop is next week - so the
next call is will be Thursday, May 12, 2:00 EST.  Please send me any agenda 
items.

In the mean time - here are the draft minutes from the 4/7 call.

                Dennis

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SIP.edu Conference Call April 7, 2005

*Attendees*

Dennis Baron, MIT
Alan Crosswell, Columbia 
Ed Guy, Pulver
Jeff Kuure, Internet2
Bruce Mazza, Avaya
Sanjay Sinha, Cisco
Mark Spencer, Indiana University
Ben Teitelbaum, Internet2
Carlos Vincente, University of Oregon
Doug Walston, Cisco
Garrett Yoshimi, Hawaii
Dave Zimmerman, Berkeley

*Discussion*

Today's call begins with Dave Zimmerman providing an overview of Berkeley's 
SIP
implementation. There have been attempts at setting up a campus VOIP system in
the past, and this time it appears that it will finally take hold. The
operations and design group is leading the implementation, while Dave's group
is handling DNS related issues. ENUM will be involved somehow - Dave is
currently looking into learning more about ENUM and what capabilities it can
provide. Carlos suggests that for universities with SIP support, ENUM makes
sense to set up as calls shouldn't be routed through the PSTN.

Dave says that he feels like an answer in search of a question in terms of
ENUM, and asks for more information about what services it can provide. Ed Guy
explains that ENUM simply maps a number to a set of resources, which is most
commonly associated with telephony but could also be applied to instant
messaging, for example.

Following this is a lengthy discussion about setting up some sort of
university-centered ENUM testbed.  Internet2 leadership has decided not to
commit resources to ENUM trials or other PSTN-bypass solutions at this time. 
As
for a root domain, E164.edu is not available as Educause, the .edu registrar,
only allows actual higher ed institutions to register domains. Ed Guy at 
Pulver
offers to host the root domain; numbers will be resolved to URIs, while call
admittance and decisions regarding the use of ENUM are up to the call
originator and terminator.  Ben suggests that anyone considering participation
in an inter-campus ENUM trial, first consult with campus policy advisers to
understand the potential regulatory implications.

The next call will be April 21.