Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting:

Presence, Integrated Communications and Location Based Services

A production of the Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications Working Group
May 04, 2005, 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
EDT (UTC-4, Daylight Savings)
Location: Salon C

Photos

left to right: Candace Holman (Harvard University), David Lassner (University of Hawaii), Rodger Will (Ford Motor Company), and Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University) (on screen)

Jeremy George (Yale University) tells it like it is

Ted Hanss (University of Michigan) instills seeds of doubt in Todd Needham's (Microsoft) mind.

Presenters (and their presentations)

Jeremy George, Yale University
Candace Holman, Harvard University ([PDF] [PPT])
David Lassner, University of Hawaii [PDF] [PPT]
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University [PDF] [PPT]
Ben Teitelbaum, Internet2
Rodger Will, Ford Motor Company

Session Abstract

Campus IT planners need to understand not only the emerging capabilities of standards-based, advanced personal communications, but also how users will adopt these technologies to enhance their personal productivity and improve the quality of their networked collaborations.

The Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group has been working to provide the means to answer these questions through the practice of an engineering principle known as "paths-in-the-snow", which encourages software development via a feedback loop with the user community. Those who are building the infrastructure and applications to support advanced personal communications need to understand what users want and don't want. To begin this exploration in the field, the PIC Working Group has developed an open, standards-based platform that can support a variety of advanced communications modalities.

The centerpiece of the session was a demonstration of how SIP/SIMPLE-based communication could be used in a campus environment to enhance teaching and learning and the announcement of a call for participation (CFP) for campus trials of the PIC-SER distribution.

PIC-SER Campus Trials: Call for Participation

A highlight of this session was an announcement by the Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group of an opportunity for Internet2 university / affiliate members to engage in a set of supported campus trials of open standards-based (SIP/SIMPLE) integrated communications. Participating campuses will receive PIC-SER—a software package consisting of an open source, standards-based server (iptel.org's SIP Express Router), a presence agent module for the SIP Express Router, server installation and configuration scripts, documentation, and trial use of several commercial integrated communications clients for both PC and Mac platforms.
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