Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

> I've asked this before, but I'm still unclear, so please bear
> with me.

  I don't think it's clear to anyone exactly how the integration of
all the elements will play out.
 
> I'd like to ask for some help in understanding what role we think
> instant messaging has as part of the member meeting demo.

  *Specifically as part of the FMM demo* IM is being presented as
one of the communications elements under the umbrella of integrated
communications only.

> Would the use of a jabber client like Fire for MacOS X have a
> place in the demo?  Would managing presence information from within
> such a client be consistent with, or inconsistent with plans so
> far?  For instance, could the presence information in support of
> IM feed into the Integrated Communications portal we've been
> talking about?  Is there any advantage in trying to achieve this,
> perhaps as an alternate way to allow users to manage or override
> their own presence information?

  At this point we need to be aware that the meeting is only three weeks
away and for the same reasons I asked Samir to be patient I think we
need to be careful about adding any sort of requirements.  There aren't
a heckuva lot of cycles left until show time.

  Assuming the group decides to continue demos, future architectures are
not necessarily bounded by the day1 effort in any way.   I think you raise
really good points, not from confusion but rather a nice sense of what
might be.  I urge you to bring the ideas to the working group meeting.
Let's talk about them and see what we want to do next time, especially
notions of decentralization v centralization.

- Jeremy

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