Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of April 19*

(medium priority)
[ACTION] (4/13) Rodger, Joe, Ben T., Steve, and Candace will continue testing
Gaim SIMPLE against pals.
[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
Steve Blair - Penn
Candace Holman - Harvard
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group did some Gaim/pals testing and was able to get login and messaging
to work. Rodger noted that Thomas Butter's SoC code has been integrated into 
the
production version of Gaim, and he's listed as one of the developers.

PIC sessions at the April 24-26 Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington:
- Rodger is chairing a panel discussion titled "Making Changes to Enterprise 
and
Campus Communications Systems - Experiences from the Field" on Tuesday from
1:15 PM to 2:30 PM.
- The PIC WG meeting is Tuesday from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. There will be a phone
bridge.
See http://events.internet2.edu/2006/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?event=242 for 
details.

There will be no PIC conference call on Thursday, April 20.