Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

The May 19 call was devoted to a well-attended Q&A from prospective PIC-SER 
participants. 

Action items as of May 25 are:

[ACTION] Ben C. will draft an update to http://pic.internet2.edu/pic-ser/#faq
based on the May 19 Q&A.
[ACTION] Jamey, Steve and Ben T. will install the pre-release PIC-SER
RPM, using Candace's draft install doc and taking notes for improvements 
to both the package and the documentation.
[ACTION] Candace will email Xten and Wave3 about how they can be involved in
creating the PIC-SER package.
[ACTION] Ben T. will talk to the JT program committee about a PIC demo.
[ACTION] Jamey will look further into what OS versions we should support.
[ACTION] Jamey will continue to pursue interoperability issues with Jeff King
at Wave3 and the SIP expert at Xten.
[ACTION] Ben T. will set up the 

 technical support list.
[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.
[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)