Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of March 15*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (2/23) All will send Rodger suggestions for Member Meeting panelists.

(medium priority)
[ACTION] (3/9) Rodger will talk to Michael Gettes about reactivating I2IM to
work on XMPP.
[ACTION] (3/2) Dennis will ask Jeff Pulver about the future of
pulver.communicator as a generic SIP client.
[ACTION] (3/2) Joe will ask Jon Peterson to join a PIC call to talk about work
in IETF SIMPLE.
[ACTION] (1/12 - ongoing) Ben T., Candace, and Steve will continue with 
pals-dev
testing.
[ACTION] (1/5 - in progress) Rodger will look for carrier reps to present
perspectives on IMS.
[ACTION] (12/8 - in progress) Dennis will schedule Megan Pengelly to summarize
Columbia's PIC-SER experience on a future call.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8 - in progress) Candace will add a Wiki document on strict 
vs.
loose routing.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8 - in progress) Rodger will try to reach his contact at
Barracuda Networks.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8 - in progress) Rodger will contact Erik Lagerway.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8 - in progress) Rodger and Joe will write up some use cases
for federations.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8) Rodger will try to organize a call with CounterPath.

(low priority)
[ACTION] (pre-12/8) 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] (pre-12/8) Jamey will enable eyeBeam to use presence info to decide
whether messages should go straight to voicemail.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8) Jamey will update the interface requirements document.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8) People will research skiff-like offerings from various
companies:
- Dennis - Newbury
- Rodger - Airespace (now part of Cisco)
- Jeremy - Eckehau (via Walt Magnussen)
[ACTION] (pre-12/8) 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
Candace Holman - Harvard
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Deke noted that Penn has server resources the group could use for XMPP
deployment and development; he may be able to get some programmer time for 
this
also. [ACTION] Rodger will talk to Michael Gettes about reactivating I2IM
(http://middleware.internet2.edu/i2im/) to work on XMPP.

Rodger walked the group through a presentation on H.325:
http://www.imtc.org/events/Forum_2005/presentations/day_2/Istvan_H325.pdf. Ben
T. expressed skepticism about H.325's central idea, which he described as to
"treat codecs like applets"; there was general agreement that platform and
licensing issues are likely to prove fatal for this approach, and for H.325 in
general. H.325 is part of the ITU-T NGN effort; see
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/ngn/index.phtml.

Commercial developments:
- There is now an API to AIM; see http://developer.aim.com.
- Cisco has released CM 5.0; see
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_callmg/5_0/.
- There is now a "Skype for Business"; see http://www.skype.com/business/ and
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/10/0539248.shtml.