Re: [MMUSIC] Protocol Action: 'An Extension to the Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for Media Loopback' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-27.txt)

Thank you Hadriel for finally getting this finished!

Brian
On Jan 15, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Wow - finally!
> 
> -00 was in December 2004!. Not a record, but up there.
> 
> 	Paul
> 
> On 1/15/13 10:45 AM, The IESG wrote:
>> The IESG has approved the following document:
>> - 'An Extension to the Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real-time
>>    Transport Protocol (RTP) for Media Loopback'
>>   (draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-27.txt) as Proposed Standard
>> 
>> This document is the product of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control
>> Working Group.
>> 
>> The IESG contact persons are Gonzalo Camarillo and Robert Sparks.
>> 
>> A URL of this Internet Draft is:
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Technical Summary
>> 
>> This document provides extensions to the Session Description Protocol
>> (SDP) and the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for enabling looping
>> of sent media. Media loopback is especially popular in ensuring the
>> quality of transport to the edge of a given VoIP, Real-time Text or
>> Video over IP service. The extension defined herein adds new SDP media
>> types and attributes, which enable establishment of media sessions
>> where the media is looped back to the transmitter. Such media sessions
>> will serve as monitoring and troubleshooting tools by providing the
>> means for measurement of more advanced VoIP, Real-time Text and Video
>> over IP performance metrics.
>> 
>> Working Group Summary
>> 
>> The first version of the document was available at the end of 2004.
>> Since that time, the working group has been discussing a number of
>> issues toward getting the consensus that is believed to be achieved in
>> version 22.
>> 
>> The description of a latching mechanism to traverse NATs and firewalls
>> was discussed and decided to be removed from the actual document in
>> favor of standard NAT traversal techniques such as ICE/STUN/TURN.
>> 
>> Document Quality
>> 
>> At least four implementations of this functionality are known. Four
>> other vendors have indicated they plan to implement it.
>> 
>> The document was WGLCed on version 16. Additionally, the PAYLOAD WG
>> also conducted a thorough review of the same 16 version. As a result of
>> these reviews, 34 changes were requested by, among others, Tolga
>> Asveren, Dan Wing, Emil Ivov, Flemming Andreasen, and Miguel A. Garcia.
>> These comments were subsequently introduced into versions 17 and 18. A
>> new WGLC was issued on version 18, bringing a new set of comments by
>> Flemming Andreasen, Magnus Westerlund, and Gunnar Hellstrom. These were
>> addressed in version 19.
>> 
>> At least Magnus Westerlund and Flemming Andreasen did a thorough review
>> of the document as part of the WGLC on version 18.
>> 
>> Version 18 was sent to the ietf-types mailing list for review on April
>> 4, 2012. Bjorern Hoehrmann and Magnus Westerlund posted comments that
>> were addressed in version 19.
>> 
>> Personnel
>> 
>> Who is the Document Shepherd? Who is the Responsible Area
>> Director?
>> 
>> Miguel A. Garcia is the Document Shepherd. Gonzalo Camarillo is the
>> Responsible Area Director
>> 
> 
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