Presence and IntComm WG

[Candace Holman <>]

Here is a definition of presence from the pic.edu project survey 
introduction:

Presence in the context of real-time communications is described as the 
willingness and ability of a user to communicate with other users on the 
network (RFC3856)  such that users are allowed to subscribe to each 
other's state and be notified of changes in others' states (RFC2778).  
The most common examples are seen in contact lists where an icon 
indicates the communication availability of another user or device.

Is there anything questionable or neglected in that definition?

Candace

Deke Kassabian wrote:
> --On Wednesday, April 4, 2007 4:09 PM -0700 Ben Chinowsky 
> <> wrote:
>
> > *Action Items as of April 4*
> > [ACTION] (3/22) Deke will recruit Michael Gettes to work
> > on PIC.edu.
>
>
> Michael may join the call and/or the  group 
> chat today at 4pm EDT.  I shared the project proposal and he and I 
> discussed it a bit.
>
> He also asked about whether the group had working definitions of 
> presence and whether we had use cases.
>
> I told him that I didn't know about a written definition that the 
> group used, but that we talk about rich presence (including location, 
> capabilities, schedule, preferences) rather than just simple presence 
> (online/offline).  But that PIC.edu as a project will be limited by 
> real server implementations, such as what is implemented in Jabber. 
> And that Peter has been in on that conversation.
>
> As for use cases, I mentioned that we had discussed pulling some 
> together as recently as last call and that we might be borrowing a bit 
> from RTC-AG.
>
> I'll "see" some of you in about an hour.
>
> -------
> Deke Kassabian,  Senior Technology Director
> Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania