Presence and IntComm WG

[Jamey Hicks <>]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:59, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
> Jamey,
> 
> How are we handling the sliding walls?  For example, a user might be
> in "Marriott Ballroom, 1" when the wall is open between 1 & 2.  If
> your ALS stuff calls Artem's session resolver with "Marriott Ballroom,
> 1", it will get a null response.  If, however, it calls it with
> "Marriott Ballroom, 1 & 2", it will get the correct session name and
> time remaining.
> 
> We almost need a tree structure of room containers.  E.g.
> 
> Indy_Marriott
> |--First_Floor
> |--Second_Floor
>    |--Marriott_Ballroom,_1_+_2
>    |  |--Marriott_Ballroom,_2
>    |  |--Marriott_Ballroom,_1
>    |--West_Hallway
> 
> The ALS would start at a leaf, issuing queries to Artem's session
> resolver and walking up the tree until it got a non-nil response.  At
> the root, the response might be: "Internet2 Fall 2003 Member Meeting".
> 

Hmm.  I had not realized that the rooms would reconfigure and that we
would have to handle spaces and subspaces.  I guess it would not be too
hard to add an inclusion table and factor that into the query.

Jamey

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