Presence and IntComm WG

[Steve Blair <>]

Ben:

   I've made contact with the Manager of Business Development
at Xten. He is reviewing the PIC project trying to determine if Xten is
going to participate. I'll email the group if Xten decides to join.

Thanks,Steve

Ben Chinowsky wrote:

> *PIC conference call*
> March 4, 2004
>
> *Action Items*
>
> [AI] Larry will find out the current status of location technologies in 
> Cisco's
> WiFi business unit.
> [AI] Jeremy will send out a list of PIC-related meetings at the Spring 
> Internet2
> Member Meeting. [Done March 5.]
> [AI] Ben T. will call his contact at Microsoft, stressing that PIC is looking 
> to
> Microsoft to do the Windows development.
> [AI] Steve will contact Wave3 and Xten, and get an update from Deke and prod 
> him
> to talk to Apple. [See the thread starting with Steve's March 5 note to the
> list.]
> [AI] Jeremy will contact Claremont.
> [AI] Ben T. will work on finding a contact at Nortel.
> [AI] Joe Rork and Ben T. will try some Nortel interoperability testing, 
> running
> the client against SARA and SBS.
> [AI] Jeremy will get Joe and Ben the ID info for SBS.
> [AI] Ben T. will resend his note to Angi, adding another person who might be
> able to help, and get a response for Joe.
> [AI] Jeremy will carry forward the plan re headsets.
> [AI] Ben T. will look into replicating the PALS config we had in Hawaii, and
> resend related info to Xiaotao.
>
> *Attendees*
>
> Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
> Joe Rork - Ford
> John Fisher - Georgetown
> Steve Blair - Penn
> Xiaotao Wu - Columbia
> Larry Schessel - Cisco
> Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
> Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2
>
> *Discussion*
>
> The group welcomed Larry Schessel of Cisco. Larry works with a variety of 
> Cisco
> business units to spearhead introducing SIP into the Cisco enterprise 
> solution.
> Cisco wants to use SIP for things beyond what you can do with a PBX, so 
> they're
> interested in the PIC WG's demos and work on educational uses for PIC
> technologies. Larry noted that he's here both to listen and to offer Cisco's
> help where appropriate. He has links to most of Cisco's business units. [AI]
> Larry will find out the current status of location technologies in Cisco's 
> WiFi
> business unit. Larry also offered to bring someone onto PIC calls from that 
> unit
> if needed.
>
> [AI] Jeremy will send out a list of PIC-related meetings at the Spring 
> Internet2
> Member Meeting. [Done March 5.] All are exhorted to come to as many as you 
> can.
>
> The group reviewed action items from the previous call:
>
> 1. Circulate requirements doc. Deke -> Apple. Ben -> Microsoft. Other 
> companies
> mentioned without assignment: Sun, Wave3, Xten, Claremont and Nortel.
> - Ben stressed the need to get the doc out to the UA vendors soon. [AI] Ben T.
> will call his contact at Microsoft, stressing that PIC is looking to Microsoft
> to do the Windows development. (Internet2's Bob Riddle is also going to put a
> little time into development using the SDK.) Ben has contacted Sun, but 
> there's
> been no real conversation yet. [AI] Steve will contact Wave3 and Xten, and get
> an update from Deke and prod him to talk to Apple. [See the thread starting 
> with
> Steve's March 5 note to the list.] [AI] Jeremy will contact Claremont. [AI] 
> Ben
> T. will work on finding a contact at Nortel. [AI] Joe Rork and Ben T. will try
> some Nortel interoperability testing, running the client against SARA and SBS.
> [AI] Jeremy will get Joe and Ben the ID info for SBS.
>
> 2. Joe will coordinate with staff in re putting Polycoms in rooms.
> - [AI] Ben T. will resend his note to Angi, adding another person who might be
> able to help, and get a response for Joe.
> [AI] Jeremy will carry forward the plan re headsets.
>
> 3. Art and Ben will follow up on adding slides to room bugging.
> - Ben T. knows of no progress here.
>
> Ben T. asked if we're ready to start daily testing against pals.internet2.edu.
> [AI] Ben T. will look into replicating the PALS config we had in Hawaii, and
> resend related info to Xiaotao.
>  

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