Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

12/11/2003 PIC Call Minutes

Attendees:
Art Gaylord
Joe Rork
Jamey Hicks
Ben Teitelbaum (note taker)
Xiaotao Wu
Alan Whinery 

Agenda / notes:

Servers
  
  - Jamey will build location server and SER Proxy box and ship to
    Alan Whinery
  - Internet2 SER proxy is not up yet (problems with Linux GE card
    drivers), but Ben is optimistic that it will be ready in time to
    serve as backup 

Scheduling for Skiff setup

  - 1/2 day to deploy
  - 1/2 to calibrate
  - set up to begin Friday
  - HP will have 2 people there (having another two would be good)
  - Alan will investigate physical mounting issue
  - Alan to get static addresses for Jamey

Leaving set up for APAN meeting
  - Can leave up through end of week; Alan will return what he doesn't
  want to Jamey ;-)

Quick Review of Presence Goals and Columbia meeting (Jamey)

  - Jamey has SER CVS commit privileges and is working on presence
    agent
  - UA will store contact lists on server using XCAP
  - UA will get location information via presence event NOTIFYs
  - also new location event package to SUBSCRIBE to a location (which
    presentities are in a particular room)

Clients
  - WaveThree Session will be made available again (Steve, Jeff King
    have talked)
  - sipc (Xiaotao)
    - mostly covered above
    - script to invoke on location change NOTIFICATION
    - iLBC codec support will be there
  - Linphone too (Linux)
    - Should be easy to port to OSX (Art will see if anyone at WHOI is
      willing to take a stab at it)
    - ALSA preferred over OSS

Art's note about room bugging
  - Art has researched 
  - 3-4 rooms are mic'ed
  - Amplifier/converter units for about $100-150 a piece that would 
    produce the signal needed for the sound cards
  - But we would need 1 PC per room to run a soft client
  - Internet2 willing to buy 2-3
  - Ben suggests investigating room->phone (handset or line) 
    converters (as used by radio stations) before we buy

Should we present on LS, presence arch, SIP?
  - Jamey: Yes, any or all; or, could do a poster
  - AI: Ben will ask Paul Love for input