Presence and IntComm WG

[Deke Kassabian <>]

--On Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:24 PM -0400 Ben Teitelbaum 
<> wrote:

> Attendees...
>   [...]
>   Deke Kassabian (UPenn)

I actually ended up being pulled out for a "war room" discussion
of plans for RPC/DCOM round 2.

>   [...]
>
> Jamey Update:
>
>   [...]
>   * Location data from passive "skiffs"; either custom StrongARM
>     platform or iPAQ in socks

This is really interesting.  Jamey, would you (or Jeremy or Ben)
be willing to say just a little more about this?  Do the skiffs
operate passively in the same spectrum as 802.11 devices and then
some central device correlates the signal strength data that
they all see?

>   [...]
>   * enhancing sipc to retrieve location (draft-...) via HTTP get;
>
>   * will spec'd HTTP get and send out (eg. to give WaveThree a chance
>     to implement it too)
>
>   * How do clients learn location-calendaring service location? SRV?
>     No, let's not require cooperation of YASA from Indiana; will
>     hard-code via config

What do we mean here?  Hard code in what config?  sipc and wave3?

> [...]


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Deke Kassabian,  Senior Technology Director
Information Systems and Computing, Networking and Telecommunications
University of Pennsylvania   <URL:http://www.isc-net.upenn.edu/~deke>

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