Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of January 17*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (1/4) Rodger will ask Tyler Johnson and Jonathan Tyman for more
specifics on where they see PIC going and what staff support is likely to be
available.
[ACTION] (1/4) Prashant will send out some links on how XMPP relates to
federations.
[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
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group noted Henning Schulzrinne's state-of-VoIP presentation on the
January 11 Internet2 SIP/VoIP conference call. Slides are at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/papers/2007/internet2.ppt

The group also continued its discussion of what to focus on next. Rodger broke
down the options into three areas:
- reference implementations of PIC software, e.g. PIC-SER and the proposed
XMPP.edu. Deke noted that the basic idea of XMPP.edu -- XMPP with SIP-style
addressing -- would be straightforward to implement. Features like Shibboleth
support could be added later.
- building awareness of developments in the PIC space, e.g. by organizing
webinars. There is no shortage of potential speakers.
- evaluating emerging platforms, e.g. Second Life. Rodger suggested combining
this with building awareness, e.g. by doing webinars in Second Life. Deke 
noted
that Linden Labs has just open-sourced the Second Life client.

There was general agreement that we can't do all three of these. Rodger will 
ask
Tyler which of them best fit with his view of the role of the PIC WG within 
RTC
as a whole.