Mark Stuart Day

TL;DR: This document defines an abstract model for a presence and instant messaging system that defines the various entities involved, defines terminology, and outlines the services provided by the system.

TL;DR: It is argued that CDNs succeed not so much by choosing an ''optimal'' server as by avoiding notably bad servers, and that neither Akamai nor Digital Island can consistently pick the best server of those available.

TL;DR: Presence and Instant Messaging have recently emerged as a new medium of communications over the Internet.

TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus and method for identifying teleconference participants is described. Butler et al. describe a conference system that includes an initialization means for initializing a call between participants located in at least two remote stations and an identification means for identifying one of the participants in one remote station responsive to a request from another participant in another remote station, and uses the table to identify the participant last to speak by looking up the position of the last speaker on the table and playing back the recorded voice segment of the participant associated with that position.

TL;DR: The Notification Service Transfer Protocol (NSTP) is introduced, which provides a simple, common service for sharing state in synchronous multi-user applications and is differentiated from other systems in terms of the four design principles that have guided its development.