Presence and IntComm WG

[Steve Blair <>]

Hello:

I thought I'd take a minute to summarize what I was describing on
today's call in case other attendees had trouble hearing me. Please
add any comments, suggestions or corrections.

I believe we are a point where we need to show support for
the PIC-SER deployments while also letting Campus Trial participants
and I2 meeting attendees know that we have a plan for where the
PIC work is heading.

I like the idea of a demo deployed in a demo room as one way to
achieve this goal.

The demo I envision would show a multi-site deployment of PIC-SER,
at most three servers, where each server would host a single SIP
domain. Probably soft clients, but not necessarily only soft clients,
would register to one server /domain.

Clients would be able to call each other with something like the 
previously
demo'd weather report showing the likelihood the call would succeed.
The weather report would have to be updated regularly to be useful.

 Clients would also be able to place off-net calls to at least the local
calling areas. Perhaps to locations in North  America. For this we would
need PSTN connectivity and most likely session timers to timeout calls
so the call doesn't end up costing too much.

  For PSTN access I'm thinking PAETEC might offer some level of
connectivity as an I2 corporate member and all around interested party.
Perhaps Cisco can pony up a small gateway like a 26x0 series box.
Anyone lurking who might offer resources :-)

  I think I'd like to see the previously demo'd manual location service
as well as the automatic location service deploy to show the location
of clients.  The manual service could be available at a workstation for
people to change a clients location and see the change on a display.

   The location would be displayed on one or two large plasma displays
(Deke can we use our displays??) and change in realtime with different
quadrants of the demo hall (and perhaps just outside the hall) being
served by skiffs.

  Now here's the kind of silly part.

  What if each quadrant represents either our Moon or one of the
moons around Jupiter. The display would have a background image of
our Solar System with "dots" representing clients superimposed on the
image of the moon where they currently reside.

  These could change as location changed. Perhaps we can get really
weird and offer presence states such as "in crater", "low on oxygen",
"heading to Jupiter", etc.

  Ok so this is a little corny but you get the idea.

Thoughts?

_Steve