RE: WG Review: Centralized Conferencing (xcon)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

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.

I don't know how to add markers to the charter to make it obvious how the 
word "conferencing" is intended here, however. And it may not even make the 
issue go away.

And, of course, I may have misunderstood the charter (or Marshall).

                     Harald