Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

  I recall a discussion on the simple list a while ago on whether
to concentrate on message oriented or session oriented im first.
The majority felt that message oriented im would be both much more
important and much easier to implement.  It may be that they were thinking
of financial and medical applications.

  At the same time the consensus, as I recall, was also that session
oriented im would have to be implemented at some point.  So, I think it
may be more a question of timing rather than intent.

- Jeremy


On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Jamey Hicks wrote:

> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:38:32 -0400
> From: Jamey Hicks 
> <>
> Reply-To: 
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> To: 
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> Subject: Re: [wg-pic] text chat conference
> 
> Xiaotao Wu wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Jamey Hicks wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Xiaotao Wu wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>sip:
> >>>
> >>>can support audio/video/text conference.
> >>>for text, you must audio join the conference first.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Can we set it up to support text without requiring that you join the
> >>audio conference?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Currently, it cannot do only text without joining the conference because
> >the IM is not session based.
> >
> The only SIP group chat draft I could find was this: 
> draft-koskelainen-sip-group-00.txt, which expired quite a while ago.  
> Hasn't there been any further work on it?  How is SIP going to take off 
> without group chat? 
> 
> Jamey
> 
> 

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