RE: [wsbpel] OASIS IRC info

["Charlton Barreto" <cbarreto@adobe.com>]

As ports 6667 and 6669 are often blocked by corporate firewalls, it would be good to confirm whether one has any proxy servers available for their use. 

Doug Davis of IBM has made a web-based IRC environment available at http://soaphub.homeip.net:8080/conf/room/ - it has worked well for the WS-RX TC and I would like to present this alternative. If we wish to use this, we can do so by browsing to http://soaphub.homeip.net:8080/conf/room/wsbpel - this environment supports queueing among a number of nice features.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Evdemon [mailto:John.Evdemon@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tue 2005-10-11 13:32
To: wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [wsbpel] OASIS IRC info
 
Quick point regarding IRC - we will not be using the OASIS IRC service
on tomorrow's call.  
 
Many people have contacted me and are having problems getting it to work
(e.g. their employer may be blocking IRC traffic).
 
I've sent a request to OASIS asking for a web-based IRC (much like what
Bernd provided when the TC first started up!).
 
John
 


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	From: John Evdemon [mailto:John.Evdemon@microsoft.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:44 AM
	To: wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
	Subject: [wsbpel] OASIS IRC info
	
	
	As promised, sorry for the belated follow-up.
	 
	OASIS is running an IRC server available at [irc.oasis-open.org]
on ports 6667 (default) and 6669.
	 
	OASIS has expressed the purpose and usage of irc in the
following manner:

	*	This server is available as a convenient, transient
side-channel for real-time meeting coordination and similar intermittent
unofficial communications.   It is NOT access-limited, and does NOT
constitute official records of the TC, nor a channel for contributions
of work.  Contents of the IRC channels are NOT necessarily spooled or
archived to the official TC records, during this beta phase.  Any
official work of the TC must be placed elsewhere:  reflected in e-mail,
meeting minutes, documents uploaded to the TC's repository or other
official channels. 
	*	During its initial beta use, we suggest that TCs use a
single local channel (preface = "&") and a name string identical to
their TC short name (e.g. "&wsbpel"). 
	*	Anyone can create a channel, if it is not already
created, simply by joining the channel.  The first person to create the
channel will be the channel's operator.  
	*	OASIS suggests that a TC chair or designee serves as the
channel operator.

	There are some additional (unsupported) tools we could use to
capture an irc chat session and format it into the minutes.
	 
	If you are new to irc you can download mIRC here (Windows only):
http://www.mirc.com/get.html 
	 
	If you think this would be useful during a conference call
please let us know.  
	 
	Diane and John