Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of January 16*

[ACTION] All will give some thought to PIC's plans for the Spring and
Fall Internet2 Member Meetings.
[ACTION] Jeremy will take Ben T. up on his offer to get someone from Xten
to join a PIC conference call.
[ACTION] Candace will coordinate a test of Eyebeam with PALS on
the Jan. 20 PIC call.
[ACTION] Jamey will test Eyebeam against the 090 prerelease version of SER,
which is what PALS is running now.
[ACTION] Candace will write a description of a simple way to append PUBLISH
messages from the client to the servers, in order to provide a basic way to
do location and presence tracking.
[ACTION] People will research skiff-like offerings from various companies:
- Dennis - Newbury
- Steve - Airwave
- Candace - Airespace (being bought by Cisco)
- Jeremy - Eckehau (via Walt Magnusson)
[ACTION] Jeremy will outline a high-level paper on the PIC WG's experiences 
and
lessons learned.
[ACTION] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation for the
paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development.
[ACTION] Jamey will update the interface requirements document.
[ACTION] Jamey will continue working on the future of the skiffs, and solicit
opinions from PIC members as needed.
[ACTION] The group will continue its discussion of what kind
of package to provide for paths-in-the-snow-engineering trials.

*Attendees*

Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
Steve Blair - Penn
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Joe Rork - Ford
Jamey Hicks - HP
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

This short call was devoted to reviewing action items:

[ACTION] Jeremy will write a blurb for the PIC MM session and request a
2.5-hour timeslot.
- Done. Jeremy's proposal to the MM program committee describes a two-part
session. The first part of the session would be a panel like the RTC panel 
from
last fall; the second part would have members of PIC talking about what the
working group is doing. Jeremy expects a response from the program committee 
in
two or three weeks.

[ACTION] Jamey will get a copy of Eyebeam for testing.
- Done; others on the call have also done so.

[ACTION] Candace will coordinate a test of Eyebeam with PALS on
the Jan. 20 PIC call.
- Still to do. Jamey noted that he's gotten a bug report saying Eyebeam won't
work with PALS. [ACTION] Jamey will test Eyebeam against the 090 prerelease
version of SER, which is what PALS is running now.

[ACTION] Jeremy will start recording the PIC calls on January 13, and come 
back
to the group for a consensus on posting the recordings.
- Jeremy is no longer planning to record the PIC calls.

[ACTION] Jamey will update the interface requirements document.
- Still to do; Jamey is reading the relevant Internet-Drafts.

[ACTION] Jamey will continue working on the future of the skiffs, and solicit
opinions from PIC members as needed.
- Jamey is still working on getting the code open-sourced. The skiffs use
RouterBOARD hardware with large flash memory cards and Mandrake 10. The 
hardware
is now commercially available; see http://www.routerboard.com/sales.html .