Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of July 6*

(new)
[ACTION] Ben T. will get Rodger an eDial account.
[ACTION] Candace and Jamey will initiate an email discussion of their proposal
to modify the SER PA module so it can do presence via SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY, to
accommodate clients that don't do PUBLISH.
[ACTION] Ben T. will put Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on PALS.
[ACTION] Jamey will update SER on PALS with the latest PIC-SER package.
[ACTION] Ben T. will write the proposal for the MM sessions (deadline extended
to July 8).
[ACTION] PIC will consider changing its conference call schedule so that 
PIC-SER
participants in various time zones can join more of the calls.

(from previous calls)
[ACTION] Jamey will look into adding fuzzed presence to the MM demo.
[ACTION] Candace and Jamey will compile a "how to un-wedge the server" 
document.
[ACTION] Anyone who has a BSD or other unusual Unix-like system on which they
can do a test install of the PIC-SER package, will contact Candace.

(low priority)
[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] 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 Magnussen)
[ACTION] Candace will look into Tyler Johnson's H.350-enabled version of the
NIST client.
[ACTION] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation for the
paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development.

*Attendees*

Rodger Will (chair) - Ford
Joe Rork - Ford
Megan Pengelly - Columbia
Steve Blair - Penn
Jamey Hicks - HP
Candace Holman - Harvard
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Ben T. announced that Rodger is taking Jeremy's place as chair of the PIC
working group. Jeremy is planning to remain active in the group. [ACTION] Ben 
T.
will get Rodger an eDial account.

The group discussed PIC-SER status. [Note: as of July 1, the release version 
of
the PIC-SER package is available at http://pals.internet2.edu/downloads/.]
[ACTION] Candace and Jamey will initiate an email discussion of their proposal
to modify the SER PA module so it can do presence via SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY, to
accommodate clients that don't do PUBLISH. [ACTION] Ben T. will put Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 on PALS. [ACTION] Jamey will update SER on PALS with the
latest PIC-SER package. Candace is still looking for volunteers to write
documentation for the PIC-SER wiki
(http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=SER+module+PA+and+Internet2).

[ACTION] Ben T. will write the proposal for the MM sessions (deadline extended
to July 8).