Trials
Arlington, April 2008
Venue: Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting, Arlington, VA
Presence Elements: Jabber server providing Instant Messaging and Presence services
Resources: User Guide | FAQ | Participants
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Arlington, April 2004
Venue: Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting, Arlington, VA
Presence Elements: location (automatic); room session name; session end time; per-room internet weather
Resources: User
Guide | Participants
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Honolulu, January 2004
Venue: Winter 2004 Joint Techs Workshop, University of Hawaii
Presence Elements: location (automatic); room session name; session end time; per-room internet weather
Clients: sipc (Windows, Linux); presence portal
Snapshots: User Guide | MAC Address Locations | SIP User Locations | Presence Portal
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Indianapolis, October 2003
Venue: Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, Indianapolis, IN
Presence Elements: location (manual); room session name; session end time;
Clients: sipc (Windows, Linux); Session (Mac, Windows); presence portal
Snapshots: User Guide
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Sponsorship
The PIC working group's rich presence trials are supported by
generous contributions from Hewlett Packard, WaveThree
Software, Ford, and Microsoft
Research.
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About
Rich Presence trials are participatory, distributed, and experimental.
Participants download and install a specially tuned integrated communications
client on their laptops. This client allows participants to initiate voice,
instant messaging, and video calls to each other using the receiver's
email address as a single, converged electronic identity.
Communication is enhanced through the inclusion of rich presence services,
through which participants may see not only who is on-line, but also where
they are and what they are doing. As participants connect to the wireless
LAN, their location and calendar presence is updated automatically. Room
location is derived through triangulation of 802.11 signals and is cross-referenced
with the meeting calendar to learn the name and duration of the session
in that room at that time.
Users may also experience placing SIP voice calls to any user at a SIP.edu-enabled
institution and may eavesdrop on any member meeting session by initiating
voice communication to a "room buddy".
Technical Resources
Working Group Documents
- Presence and Location Service: Operation and Client Requirements, Jamey Hicks, Xiaotao Wu, March 4, 2004. [PDF]
- PIC / ALS Architecture in Brief, Jeremy George, January 16, 2004. [DOC]
Talks
- Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group, Xiaotao Wu and Henning Schulzrinne, Spring VON 2004, Santa Clara, CA, March 31, 2004. [PPT]
- 802.11 Location Tracking and Presence and Integrated Communication Demo, Jamey Hicks, ESCC/Internet2/APAN/TransPAC Joint Techs Worshop, January, 2004. [HTML]
Relevant IETF RFCs
Relevant IETF Working Groups
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