Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Chinowsky <>]

*Action Items*

(new)
[ACTION] Dennis, Candace, Jamey, and Ben T. will do a timed dress 
rehearsal of the MM demo with the most-recently-tested
versions of Session and Eyebeam.
[ACTION] Candace will draft an RFP for campus trials, describing what's 
needed from a participating campus.

(from previous calls)
[ACTION] Jamey will build a PALS SER distribution; Steve and Ben will
install it and take notes for documentation.
[ACTION] Jamey will enable eyeBeam to use presence info to decide
whether messages should go straight to voicemail.
[ACTION] Jamey will update the interface requirements document.

(from previous calls, for after the Member Meeting)
[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] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation 
for the
paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development.
[ACTION] Jamey will continue working on the future of the skiffs, and 
solicit
opinions from PIC members as needed.
[ACTION] People will research skiff-like offerings from various companies:
- Dennis - Newbury
- Steve - Airwave
- Rodger - Airespace (now part of Cisco)
- Jeremy - Eckehau (via Walt Magnusson)

*Attendees*

Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
Steve Blair - Penn
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Dennis Baron - MIT
Joe Rork - Ford
Rodger Will - Ford
Candace Holman - Harvard
Jamey Hicks - HP
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The first part of the call was devoted to pruning the AI list -- see 
above. Other notes from that discussion:
- eyeBeam, Session, and p.C can all do p2p, but none of them can do 
off-hook notification with p2p.
- During the call, Jamey sent out some notes on the partially successful 
Session/eyeBeam interoperability testing (Subject:
[wg-pic] [Fwd: Session/Eyebeam interop test results]).
- p.C is available to Internet2 members.
- The skiffs are moving through the HP open-source review process.

The group discussed plans for the MM demo. There was general agreement 
that we're close to having the two clients we need.
There was also agreement that we don't have to have a distribution done 
in time for the demo, so we can put off checkpointing
for a while longer. The group also gave Ben T. feedback on his demo 
script. [ACTION] Dennis, Candace, Jamey, and Ben T. will
do a timed dress-rehearsal of the MM demo with the most-recently-tested 
versions of Session and Eyebeam. [ACTION] Candace
will draft an RFP for campus trials, describing what's needed from a 
participating campus.