Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

All,

  I was going to put this on tomorrow's agenda but it might be
better to see if some quick consensus can be reached via email, if
only to help speed the program committee's decision.  I'm beginning
to be a little concerned about lead time to the SMM and the
increasing potential difficulty of getting on speakers' schedules.

  I think everyone is aware that Radvision is a valued Internet2
partner and produces excellent products.  I've had conversations
with them a couple of times about joining our calls but to date
that hasn't happened.  Adi's proposal certainly makes sense to me
but I'm not sure how it might fit into our proposal for the SMM.
Possibly this is just because we haven't yet worked together.

  I'm not sure what to say.  Thoughts, please?

- Jeremy

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:13:56 -0500
From: Ellen Vaughan 
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Subject: Spring Member Meeting proposal

Jeremy & Michael,
Contacting you on behalf of the SMM program committee.  Asking your views.
  Jeremy, would a modified version of the following proposal be appropriate 
for inclusion in the PIC session?

As an alternative Todd Needham, as member of program committee, suggested a 
IM panel with representation from WG,  Yahoo and Microsoft. Michael, your 
thoughts?

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  Submitted for Middleware track

Presence-Based Multimedia Communications

Instant Messaging and presence is becoming the watchword and underlying 
communications architecture of today?s enterprise network. Whether IM came 
into the enterprise virally or through a decision by the IT manger, 
presence-based communications is become an important way people 
communicate. As IM becomes par of a larger communications strategy, how 
does the IT manger integrate it into a larger desktop multimedia 
communications architect of voice, video, and data communications and 
collaboration? In this session we will explore the architecture of Instant 
Messaging and presence and then discuss how it can be used as a tool for 
initiating an ad hoc point to point or multipoint conference. After that we 
will discuss other IT issues such as supporting other protocols, inviting 
in other non-IM video/voice end points, scheduling, scalability, deployment.
Adi Regev, RADVISION


Thanks for your help,
e-

Ellen Vaughan
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