Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of May 31*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (5/24) Deke will ask Mark about the feedback capabilities of Jabber.
[ACTION] (5/24) Deke will expand the IDEA use case for discussion on the
May 31 call.
[ACTION] (5/10) All will review the use cases at
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/picwg/PIC+Use+Cases
with a view toward including some of them in the PIC.edu survey at
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/picwg/PIC+Project+Proposal+Survey
[ACTION] (5/3) Deke will ask Mark when he expects to be able to 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] (4/12) Jonathan and Deke will look for a permanent chair for the PIC
working group.
[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) 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*

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

*Discussion*

Deke noted that he recently talked to some people from the Internet2 K20
Initiative (http://k20.internet2.edu/), and found substantial interest in
PIC.edu there.

The group reviewed Deke's expansion of the Virtual Study Group use case; see
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/picwg/PIC+Use+Cases for the 
latest
version. Michael is getting more information on the pseudonymity capabilities
of Jabber. [ACTION] Deke will ask Mark about the feedback capabilities of
Jabber.

[ACTION] Deke will expand the IDEA use case for discussion on the May 31 call.