Presence and IntComm WG

[Jamey Hicks <>]

Xiaotao Wu wrote:

> > > 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?
> >    
>
> I think this can just be done by a session based IM.
> draft-ietf-simple-message-sessions-04
> Session based IM can support conferencing but page-mode IM cannot.
> In page-mode, it's not able to find out whether a user is still in the
> chat room or not. Currently, sipc only support page-mode IM.
OK.  That makes sense to me.  I've read the session based IM draft.  
Looks pretty straightforward.  Allocating groups is outside the scope of 
that draft, if I remember correctly, but that's not that big a deal.

Jamey