Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of January 3*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (12/14) Rodger and Prashant will further discuss how CampusEAI could
participate in PIC.
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will post his presence-agent code on the web.
[ACTION] (8/24 - in progress) Mark will see if he can find interest in the
presence-agent project on the Psi developers' list.
[ACTION] (5/18) Mark will evaluate prospects for modifying the calendar-
integration code written by Ben T.'s 2005 SoC student, to drive XMPP presence.

(medium priority)
[ACTION] (8/31) Dennis will contact Skyhook for more information.
[ACTION] (8/3) Rodger will put a discussion of current vendor offerings in the
location-services space on the agenda for a future call.
[ACTION] (in progress) Rodger and Joe will write up some use cases
for enterprise federations.

*Attendees*

Rodger Will (chair) - Ford
Joe Rork - Ford
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Mark Sirota - Penn
Dennis Baron - MIT
Prashant Chopra - CampusEAI Consortium
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group discussed possible directions for PIC in 2007. Rodger noted 
RTC-AG's recommendation to separate short-term from long-term projects. 
(RTC-AG's deliverables are at http://www.internet2.edu/rtc/.) He also 
noted Ben T.'s parting advice to pick a small number of technologies to work 
on, and to focus on pushing them out into the community. Rodger asked the 
group to think about possible areas of work in the light of these 
considerations, for further discussion with Tyler Johnson (chair of RTC-AG) 
and Ken Klingenstein (who now has oversight of PIC) in January.

Dennis gave an overview of MIT's iFIND "friendspotting" application
(http://ifind.mit.edu/). iFIND is written in Java and uses Place Lab for
location tracking. Dennis noted that the iFIND group is focused on seeing how
people make use of the application; making it scalable and secure falls to
Dennis and the IT department. Dennis offered to recuit some of the iFIND 
people
to join a PIC call for further discussion. [As of January 3, the iFIND source
code is available at http://ifind.mit.edu/source.html]

Prashant Chopra joined the call to discuss how the CampusEAI Consortium
(http://www.campuseai.org) could participate in PIC. CampusEAI's focus so far
has been on portals, so identity management tied to a variety of forms of
communication is of considerable interest to them. They are also interested in
applying presence to TVIP, to find out who's watching and available to talk
about what they're watching. (The Open Student Television Network is a project
of CampusEAI and Internet2; see http://www.ostn.tv/.) Prashant also suggested
creating a "presence portlet" that would tell you who's currently looking at a
given web page. [ACTION] Rodger and Prashant will further discuss how 
CampusEAI
could participate in PIC.