Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of February 9*

(new)
[ACTION] Candace will coordinate a test of Eyebeam with PALS from 3:00 to 4:00
EST on February 10 (immediately before the PIC call).
[ACTION] Candace will try to get Bruce involved in the Eyebeam testing.
[ACTION] All will get Jeremy their input on PIC's activities at the Spring
Member Meeting as soon as possible.
[ACTION] Jamey will look into ways of addressing Dennis's concerns about solo
testing on the PALS server.

(from previous calls)
[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
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Dennis Baron - MIT
Jamey Hicks - HP
Candace Holman - Harvard
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group continued the discussion of its double session at the Spring 
Internet2
Member Meeting (see last week's minutes). Jeremy wants to have someone talk
about any hindrances to PIC that may emerge from the Federal Government; it 
was
agreed to plan for a speaker to address this in the first session. For the
second session, it was agreed to start with one or more case studies of
deployments of commercial products (Vocera and Radiance have been suggested so
far), then cover PIC WG experiences, and to wrap up with Candace presenting 
the
packaged version of the demo. [ACTION] All will get Jeremy their input on 
PIC's
activities at the Spring Member Meeting as soon as possible.

Ben T. has succeeded in getting some people from Xten to join next week's 
call.
Candace has tested Eyebeam's IM and presence features, and she's impressed; 
she
noted that Xten also has tools for coping with NATs. [ACTION] Candace will
coordinate a test of Eyebeam with PALS from 3:00 to 4:00 EST on February 10
(immediately before the PIC call). [ACTION] Candace will try to get Bruce
involved in the Eyebeam testing.

Dennis noted some difficulties he's had in testing PALS by himself; [ACTION]
Jamey will look into ways of addressing Dennis's concerns about solo testing 
on
the PALS server.