Presence and IntComm WG

[Neal McBurnett <>]

Jesse, I'm forwarding this to the Internet2 PIC working group, which
has been very active in the IM and presence and authentication spaces
and is having a meeting in an hour or so.  See our meeting invite
below, and our pages at

 http://pic.internet2.edu/

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:17:15 -0600
From: Jesse Thompson 
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Reply-To: Email Administration in Higher Education
    
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To: 

Subject: HIED IM Federation

Here at UW Madison, we've rolled out a new XMPP instant messaging
service for our main @wisc.edu domain as well as many of our hosted
domains.  We had an old service for some years, but it wasn't able to
communicate [well] with other XMPP services.

We've already had some users take advantage of the XMPP federation to
communicate with collaborators at other schools.  However, the typical
end-user is not aware of this possibility.  I'm looking for a way to
increase this awareness as well as promote communication and
collaboration between hi-ed IM administrators.

Some ideas:

* Publish a page (wiki?) that lists all of the known EDU instant
messaging services.  This list might get long (we already have 15
chat-enabled domains, and growing,) so it might need to be a search utility.

* Build a guideline for tools (search function or address book
integration) that determines if a domain is capable of instant messaging
based on some assumptions.  E.g., if the domain part of a supplied email
address has DNS SRV _tcp._xmpp-server records.

* Start a HIED-IMADMIN mailing list for communication and collaboration
between EDU IM operators.  We could host it on our list server.
Alternatively, we could just piggyback on this list.

Other ideas?  Thoughts?

--
  Jesse Thompson
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Email/IM: 


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From: "Callahan, Timothy" 
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Subject: [wg-pic] PIC WG Call on Thursday February 21st, 4pm EDT
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All,
We will hold a PIC conference call today at 4pm EDT.  

We'll continue to prep for the spring member meeting.  We should compile
the list of things that need to be done for the meeting, and include
when they are due (publications, documentation, installations, etc.)
We'll continue work on developing technical aspects of the PIC.EDU
project, including identity management.
 
- Tim

 
** In addition to the audio call, there is a chatroom.
To join the jabber chatroom for PIC during the call, point your jabber
client to 


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Starting Time: 4:00 PM US/Eastern
Occurs: Every Thursday
Duration: 1 hour maximum

To join the call, do one of the following:
 a. Dial 1-734-615-7474 , 1-800-392-6130 or 1-866-411-0013
    and enter access code 0125986
 b. To have the system call you, click here:
    https://edial.internet2.edu/call/0125986


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