Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*PIC conference call*
February 19, 2004

*Action Items*

[AI] Bob and Xiaotao will look at the client requirements doc and send 
comments
to Jamey, with Tuesday, Feb. 24, as the target date to have this finalized.
[AI] Joe will organize a conference call to talk about video room bugging with
Art and Mike sometime in the next week or so.
[AI] Joe will shop for USB headsets and handsets (Clarisys handsets in
particular), looking to narrow the choice down to a single model.
[AI] Ben T. will remind Chuck Wolf that we need him to start joining these
conference calls.
[AI] Joe will ask Jamey about leaving the PALS server where it is and 
connecting
to it from Arlington.
[AI] The group will also take up this question with the Georgetown people.
[AI] On the next call, all -- especially Jamey -- will discuss how to train
people to help calibrate the skiffs.

*Attendees*

Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
Xiaotao Wu - Columbia
Jamey Hicks - HP
Joe Rork - Ford
Art Gaylord - Woods Hole
Candace Holman - Harvard
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Joe announced that he's gotten approval to take on the project manager role 
for
the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting PIC trial.

Jamey has produced a first draft of the client requirements doc; see
http://pic.internet2.edu/docs/20040219-pals-ua-reqs.pdf. [AI] Bob and Xiaotao
will look at the client requirements doc and send comments to Jamey, with
Tuesday,
Feb. 24, as the target date to have this finalized.

Joe talked to Mike Jones at RADVISION about video room bugging. [AI] Joe will
organize a conference call to talk about video room bugging with Art and Mike
sometime in the next week or so. Joe noted that the RADVISION box is supposed 
to
start doing authN around mid-March; the group agreed that this might be 
cutting
it too close to include this capability in the Spring MM trial. The group also
discussed a problem where a new person joining a call causes resizing of the
video of all the other participants; there was general agreement that instead
invisibility should be the default for new call joiners.

There was further discussion of how to spend the $5000 that Microsoft is
contributing to the PIC trial at the Spring MM. Ben T. suggested that the 
first
_n_ people to register with the SIP server get CyberAcoustics headsets, and 
the
next _m_ registrants get USB headsets or handsets, with the remaining
registrants (if any) left to fend for themselves. There was rough consensus on
this approach. Around 600 attendees are expected at the MM, but there will
probably only be around 100 participants in the PIC trial. Because there are
sometimes driver issues with USB headsets, the group agreed to stick to just 
one
model; [AI] Joe will shop for USB headsets and handsets (Clarisys handsets in
particular), looking to narrow the choice down to a single model.

Joe asked if any new features should be added for the Spring MM PIC trial.
Possibilities mentioned included archiving information on who was in what 
event
(possible uses: finding people to continue the discussion with, creating 
mailing
lists on the fly) and creating SMS gateways. On the other hand, Ben T. noted
that in past discussions there's been a consensus on freezing the function set
for now, and focusing on the client side.

Spring MM trial details:
- It was noted that Jamey says Red Hat 7.3 (DuPont) is OK for the PALS 
servers.
- [AI] Ben T. will remind Chuck Wolf that we need him to start joining these
conference calls.
- [AI] Joe will ask Jamey about leaving the PALS server where it is and
connecting to it from Arlington. Shipping the machines to Hawaii was a lot of
work, and one of them didn't survive the trip. [AI] The group will also take 
up
this question with the Georgetown people.
- The group discussed how best to take some of the burden of calibrating the
skiffs off of Jamey. [See
http://pic.internet2.edu/docs/20040116-PIC-ALR-arch-george.doc for info on
skiffs.] Ben T. pointed out that this is art as well as science; there are 
many
calibration points, and skiffs appear and disappear throughout the meeting,
making calibration a continuous, iterative process. Ben T. suggested having
Jamey train one other person, who in turn could train all the rest. [AI] On 
the
next call, all -- especially Jamey -- will discuss how to train people to help
calibrate the skiffs.