CSMM WG meeting 2

3 Jun 2004, 15:00 → 4 Jun 2004, 12:30 Europe/Zurich

LAL, Orsay

Christian Helft (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)

This meeting will take place at LAL, Orsay, France. http://www.lal.in2p3.fr

Thursday 3 June

15:00 → 19:30 Before dinner

Open Session

15:00 Welcome

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

15:15 Industry trends and standards

What will the industry bring to market within the coming years ? Will the traditional H323 end-points+MCUs still remain the way of doing videoconferencing or will the "rich media instant messaging" make it a thing of the past ? Will SIP replace H323 (and if so why, and when ?). What role H264, H239, H350 will play in the near future ? Is there any hope end-user MCU control and NAT/firewall problems be adressed by standards ?

Speaker: Roberto Flaiani (Aethra)

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16:00 Document and application sharing

The Web Collaboration Wave: Tsunami or Rip Tide? Now that many of us are comfortable with video conferencing, we think we may be ready to take that next step to share or even collaboratively create data. But what are we, as a community, really asking for? And what are vendors now providing? And at what cost? In this session, based on the work of a small Internet2/ViDe working group, I will try to put some perspective on how collaborative tools have been evolving and what those in the higher-ed community have told us they want. Examples of several current tools and case studies will be included.

Speaker: Mary Trauner (ViDeNet)

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16:45 Break

17:15 H350

H350 promises to solve the universal directory problem. How? Will industry adopt it ? How will it interfere with the "buddy lists" of IM presence detection? What will be its impact on our community ?

Speaker: Jill Gemmill (ViDeNet, UAB)

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18:15 High end systems

Videoconferencing with Renater: the end of bandwidth limitations. Which videoconferencing system to use when the network isn't an issue anymore? Will Web Conferencing and audio/video augmented instant messaging kill traditional videoconferencing?

Speaker: Jacques Prévost (Renater)

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21:00 → 23:30 After dinner

Closed session

21:00 Web conferencing

Does Web+telephone lessen the need for videoconferencing ? Discussion.

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

21:20 Present facilities assessment

List of benefits/drawbacks of the main systems in use within our community

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

22:00 Major trends in industry offering

Feedback from various recent discussions with vendors

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

22:20 User survey

Define a set of questions about present VC practices in our community. Define survey execution.

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

22:40 Vendors survey

Define a set of questions for vendors on their offerings for our community, support of standards and vision of what's coming Define survey execution

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

23:00 Draft of recommendations and report

Speaker: Christian Helft (LAL)

Friday 4 June

09:30 → 12:00 Report writing

Using the wiki to write the report.