Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of April 7*

[AI] All will participate in a testing half-hour at 3:30 Eastern on April 8
(right before the next conference call).
[AI] Ben T. will order 100 Eutectics IPP 200 handsets; Joe will send Ben T. 
the
information he needs to do this.
[AI] Candace will continue working on the skiff-calibration document.
[AI] Larry will arrange a conference with Cisco location-technologies expert,
bearing in mind that the PIC working group can't do NDA.
[AI] Jamey will follow up with his contact at Microsoft.
[AI] Ben T. will follow up with Mike and Christian re getting a war room.
[AI] Joe will draft poster content for discussion on the April 8 conference
call.
[AI] Ben T. will get Candace access to the web site.
[AI] Jamey and Xiaotao will test PALS preregistration of attendees.
[AI] Ben T. will get the attendee list into a machine-readable format.
[AI] Jamey will see if he can add a password-change option to the PALS server.
[AI] Ben T. will reactivate the demo-user mailing list.
[AI] Ben T. will set things up so that people are automatically added to the
demo-user mailing list when they register for the demo.
[AI] Ben T. will send out the initial communication (same as last time, with
light editing) by April 9.
[AI] Ben T. will send Henning's presentation to the list.

*April 1 conference call attendees*

Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
Jamey Hicks - HP
Larry Schessel - Cisco
Xiaotao Wu - Columbia
Candace Holman - Harvard
Steve Blair - Penn
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*April 1 discussion, with notes on later developments*

The group first convened via the PALS server, but this produced bad static and
echoes, so we retreated to eDial.

The group reviewed action items:

1. Jamey will consult with the Georgetown people and make a final decision
about leaving the PALS server where it is and connecting to it from Arlington.
- Done; the server will remain where it is, and Jamey will bring two more to
Arlington. They are buying hard travel cases for these.

The procedure for getting gear to the meeting is to ship it to yourself at the
hotel:

Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202

2. Jamey will show Candace the process of calibrating the skiffs, and Candace
will document it.
- Jamey has shown Candace the process, and Candace has produced a draft; see
Candace's April 1 email. [AI] Candace will continue working on the
skiff-calibration document.

3. Joe will prod Larry about finding out the current status of location
technologies in Cisco's WiFi business unit.
- Larry reported that there is a trial already underway. The key expert is
available for a conference call; [AI] Larry will arrange a conference with
Cisco's location-technologies expert, bearing in mind that the PIC working 
group
can't do NDA.

4. Ben T. will send Jamey the Microsoft contact's phone number, and Jamey will
try to call the contact.
- Done. Jamey heard back from the contact by email, and it doesn't sound like
he's made much progress. Jamey set up another test account to make it easier 
for
him to register. [AI] Jamey will follow up with his contact at Microsoft.

5. The group will designate someone to work with Christian Todorov
()
 or Mike LaHaye 
()
 on getting a war
room for the April demo.
- Ben T. is pursuing this and is optimistic. [AI] Ben T. will follow up with
Mike and Christian re getting a war room.

6. Xiaotao will continue working on SIPc usability; Ben T. and Jeremy will
send Xiaotao their SIPc logs.
- Done. Jeremy noted that there's been lots of troubleshooting since the last
call, and SIPc seems to be working nicely.

Late on April 1, Xiaotao released a new version of SIPc that can publish maps 
to
the PALS server:
Windows - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~xiaotaow/tmp5555/setup.exe
Linux - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~xiaotaow/tmp5555/sipc.linux.tar.gz

7. On the April 1 call, the group will review the status of contacts with
vendors re clients.
- The group agreed that the supported UAs will be SIPc, Wave3's Session, and 
(if
they come through in time) Microsoft.

Jeremy noted that we need to start thinking about "the nitty gritty things of
putting on a trial" -- e.g. how to notify attendees. Candace volunteered to 
take
the lead in working out a communications plan; [AI] Ben T. will get Candace
access to the web site. [AI] Jamey and Xiaotao will test PALS preregistration 
of
attendees. [AI] Ben T. will get the attendee list into a machine-readable
format. [AI] Jamey will see if he can add a password-change option to the PALS
server. [AI] Ben T. will reactivate the demo-user mailing list. [AI] Ben T. 
will
set things up so that people are automatically added to the demo-user mailing
list when they register for the demo. Ben T. noted that there will be no help
desk, and asked if we should do "PIC on me" again; there was lukewarm 
agreement
on doing so. The group also agreed to plan on doing a press release, but to 
make
it a low priority. [AI] Ben T. will send out the initial communication (same 
as
last time, with light editing) by April 9.

Finally, Ben T. shared some news from VON:
- There was a very successful Internet2 BoF at which Henning Schulzrinne
presented Internet2's rich presence work using slides from Ben T. [AI] Ben T.
will send Henning's presentation to the list.
- Ben had lunch with SER creator Jiri Kuthan of iptel.org. Jiri sends his
greetings and says he would like to replicate the PIC demo in Germany in a
Deutsche Telekom lab.

On Tuesday, April 6, the group had another fruitful testing hour. Jamey and
Jeremy summarized the results on the list, and Jeremy announced the next 
testing
time: 3:30 Eastern on April 8, immediately before the next conference call.