A method and a system for supporting rendezvous based instant group
conferencing among mobile users allows a conference originator to
initiate and setup instant group conferencing to a set of participants
even when the participants may not be immediately available to commit to
the conference call at the time of its initiation. All negotiations for
obtaining commitments from the participants are performed by the system,
thus relieving the originator of the time consuming task of negotiating
with the participants. The system automatically decides as to when to
actually dial out to the participants to setup the conference call after
obtaining commitment from all (or a quorum of) required participants.