RE: [Simple] Updated RPID

["Boyer, David G \(Dave\)" <dgboyer at avaya.com>]

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> >>> As for the person tuple, I think a simple policy like "the latest
> >>> timestamp wins" will get you very far at least for information
> >>> explicitly published by the user. If the user explicitly publishes
> >>> information, he probably wants that information to be visible to
> >>> watchers.
> 
> I don't know what "explicitly published by the user" means. I need to 
> use applications as intermediaries in order to publish.
> 
> I am expecting that the presence client on my PC may have a dropdown 
> list box where I can pick "in meeting". Then I would expect it to 
> publish my activity as in-meeting.
> 
> I also expect that my phone, when I go off-hook, may also 
> publish that 
> my activity is "on-the-phone".
> 
> So, perhaps my activity had been in-meeting, and then was 
> overridden to 
> on-the-phone. What happens when I get off the phone? My phone 
> republishes, but doesn't report my activity at all, since it 
> no longer 
> knows what it is. Does my activity revert to in-meeting, even 
> though it 
> hasn't been republished? What if it is republished?
> 
> Suppose I then go home and use a different PC to publish a 
> new activity 
> status with the intent to override what my office PC is saying?
> 
> I think there are a lot of limitations to "latest timestamp".
> 

The user might be able to set a "global" presence state, e.g. 
his person status,  via his IM client, or through a
personal web portal, which allows the user to 
administer his presence state.  He might want to set his  status
to "unavailable for all communications".  In this case it wouldn't
matter what the phone reports (on-the-phone, or off-the-phone)
after the user sets his person level status.

dave

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