Protocol Action: MEGACO Protocol to Proposed Standard
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Wed, 31 May 2000 12:41 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: MEGACO Protocol to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the following Internet-Drafts as Proposed Standards: o MEGACO Protocol <draft-ietf-megaco-protocol-08.txt> o Megaco Errata <draft-ietf-megaco-errata-03.txt> These documents are the product of the Media Gateway Control Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Scott Bradner and Allison Mankin. Technical Summary These documents define the protocols used between elements of a physically decomposed multimedia gateway. There are no functional differences from a system view between a decomposed gateway, with distributed sub- components potentially on more than one physical device, and a monolithic gateway such as described in H.246. These documents do not define how gateways, multipoint control units or integrated voice response units (IVRs) work. Instead it creates a general framework that is suitable for these applications. Packet network interfaces may include IP, ATM or possibly others. The interfaces will support a variety of SCN signaling systems, including tone signaling, ISDN, ISUP, QSIG, and GSM. National variants of these signaling systems will be supported where applicable. The protocol definition in these document will also be published as ITU Recommendation H.248. The errata document will be folded into the base document during the ITU publication process and the IETF will evaluate the result as a Proposed Standard to replace these documents. Working Group Summary There was a great deal of discussion on specific aspects of these documents in both the IETF megaco and ITU-T forums. These resulting documents represent the consensus of the groups. Protocol Quality These documents were reviewed for the IESG by Scott Bradner