Harald Tveit Alvestrand writes:
Listening in on this conversation, it seems to me that
Marshall is talking about "conferencing" in a sense which
includes a lot of different mechanisms, the premier one
being instant messaging, while Jon (and the XCON charter)
speaks about "conferencing" in a sense that starts out
assuming that voice is included, and that video is the
logical next step, while conferencing based on IM, if
thought of at all, is regarded as a small side issue.
As one of the chairs of the BOF, such was certainly
*not* my understanding. The solution is intended to
address media streams in general, not just voice
and video.
In particular, many people with whom I have spoken
regarding XCON expressed interest in its application
to instant messaging. Additionally, one of the
strongest motivations within the SIMPLE community
for adding session-mode messaging is the ability to
take advantage of any other capabilities that can be
applied to SIP sessions, such as multiparty
conferencing.
To reinforce that point: one of the primary reasons
(in my estimation) that SIMPLE has not proposed
solutions for chat rooms is the realization that such
functionality comes for free once a general
conferencing solution is defined. I would posit that
the expectation of SIMPLE is that the solution
created by XCON will be usable for this application.
I don't know how to add markers to the charter to
make it obvious how the word "conferencing" is
intended here, however.
I believe any modifications to the charter that
de-emphasized text as a media type would be a
disservice to a significant number of potential
XCON participants.
/a