Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Chinowsky <>]

*Action Items as of April 19*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (4/13) Ben will elaborate on the entertainment/social and 
organizational-support use cases on the wiki.
[ACTION] (4/12) Jonathan and Deke will look for a permanent chair for 
the PIC WG.
[ACTION] (3/22) Jonathan will look for PIC.edu resources at Radvision, 
Tandberg,
and Polycom.
[ACTION] (3/22) Dennis will see if PIC.edu resources are available in 
Europe.
[ACTION] (3/8) Jonathan will find out what's going on with presence in the
Access Grid community, and if there is interest in PIC.edu there.
[ACTION] (3/1) Mark will revise the features list, adding XMPP items to the
"Protocol Specific" section, and making the "User Features" and 
"Security and
Privacy" sections protocol-agnostic.
[ACTION] (3/1) Dennis will recruit someone from Google to join a call to 
discuss
how they might be able to participate in PIC.edu.

(medium priority)
[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.

(low priority)
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will Applescript-enable his presence agent and post 
the code
on the web.
[ACTION] (8/31) Dennis will contact Skyhook for more information.
[ACTION] (8/24 - in progress) Mark will see if he can find interest in the
presence-agent project on the Psi developers' list.
[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] (5/18) Mark will evaluate prospects for modifying the calendar-
integration code written by Ben T.'s 2005 SoC student, to drive XMPP 
presence.
[ACTION] (in progress) Rodger and Joe will write up some use cases
for enterprise federations.

*Attendees*

Jonathan Tyman (acting chair) - Internet2
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Michael Gettes - Internet2
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Deke has agreed to be interim chair of the PIC WG. Deke and Prashant 
will co-chair the PIC session at the Member Meeting.
[ACTION] Jonathan and Deke will look for a permanent chair for the PIC WG.

The group reviewed the RTC-AG use cases (see 
http://www.internet2.edu/rtc/files/RTC_Executive_Summary.pdf) for 
relevance to
PIC.edu. While it's not clear how relevant the specifics of the RTC-AG 
use cases are, there was general agreement that we want to have at least a
"use case zero" -- an interoperable way to deploy text-based IM with 
rudimentary presence -- and a "use case one", which
would add an additional means of communication (say, voice) and a way to 
indicate which means of communication an individual
is available to use. There is a very rough correspondence between use 
case zero and RTC-AG's Education and Instruction use
case, and between use case one and RTC-AG's Research Collaboration use 
case.

Ben and Candace further discussed use cases on Friday, April 13, and 
Candace posted some materials to
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/picwg/PIC+Use+Cases . 
[ACTION] Ben will elaborate on the entertainment/social
and organizational-support use cases on the wiki. The idea here is to 
create very concise use cases to incorporate into the
PIC.edu survey, in order to a) find out how people on the campuses are 
interested in using the technology and b) recruit
people to work on the project.