Presence and IntComm WG

["Jeff King" <>]

Sorry, I have not been following the thread for a while.  Just catching
up on the last few messages.  To answer a few of the questions:

The version of Session that will be made available supports:

Audio - G.711, G.722, G.723, GSM
Video - h.261/h.263 (cif & qcif), wavelet (320x240 & 160x120)
IM - SIMPLE 
Presence - close, but won't be available in this UA version.

As to how you want to position voice and video, with the IM, presence
functionality ... I support whatever decision you make based on the
operating environment and constraints you have.  From our experience
last fall, voice worked fine at times but was subject to rather severe
packet loss during peak network usage.  This problem seemed to be
associated with wireless users as wired users weren't subject to the
oversubscribed shared network media problem.

Regards,
Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Deke Kassabian 
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Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:39 PM
To: 

Subject: Re: [wg-pic] location tracking at MM



--On Friday, April 9, 2004 3:20 PM -0400 Jeremy George 
<>
 wrote:

>
>   In general I think this is an excellent compromise and I agree
> completely with the analysis of the value proposition for the trial.
The
> PIC group is primarily about the integration of computer-mediated
computer
> communications components rather than the components individually.
> Dropping VoIP shouldn't, necessarily, be a deal breaker.
>
>   If we agree (I'm soliciting other opinions) to this proposal, we
need
> to nail down UA installation as simple as possible and do some quick
> work on whatever mailing we send out.
>
>   Some questions:
>
>   This clearly affects Session.  What do we do?

Right.  Couldn't we still encourage those interested in audio and video
conferencing to try Session, not as part of the Location Services demo
but as part of IC in general?  The message is "Here's a quality, cross
platform tool that does audio and video conferencing well, and may do
SIMPLE-based IM soon."

Jeff from WaveThree is probably listening in, right?
Jeff?  What do you think.

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Jamey Hicks wrote:
>> I think
>> that a BOF for trying out VOIP as well would also be a good thing.
>>
>> -Jamey

So do more focused voice communications as part of a separate gathering?

^Deke

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Deke Kassabian,  Senior Technology Director
Information Systems and Computing, Networking and Telecommunications
University of Pennsylvania   <URL:http://www.net.isc.upenn.edu/~deke>