Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

  Just FYI, this is the session description that finally went off
to Internet2 staff.  Many thanks to Ben for extensive revisions.

- Jeremy


Campus IT planners need to understand not only the emerging
capabilities of standards-based, advanced personal communications, but
also how users will adopt these technologies to enhance their personal
productivity and improve the quality of their networked
collaborations.

The Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group has
been working to provide the means to answer these questions through
the practice of an engineering principle known as "paths-in-the-snow",
which encourages software development via a feedback loop with the
user community.  Those who are building the infrastructure and
applications to support advanced personal communications need to
understand what users want and don't want.  To begin this exploration
in the field, the PIC Working Group has developed an open,
standards-based platform that can support a variety of advanced
communications modalities.

This session will be in four parts.  The first part will be an
overview explanation of integrated communications, rich presence and
the ongoing transition to advanced, standards-based IP communications.
The second part will be a live demonstration.  The third part will
elaborate on the demonstration, presenting a vision of how these
technologies may be deployed on campus to provide both immediate value
and a platform for growing a rich set of services and capabilities
over time.  A final fourth part will provide an overview of the PIC
Working Group's PALS software distribution.

Speakers:

David Lassner, CIO, University of Hawaii
Ben Teitelbaum, Program Manager, Voice and Integrated Communications,
Internet2
Henning Schulzrinne, Chairman, Computer Science Department, Columbia
University
Candace Holman, Convergence Engineer, Harvard University