[PEPPERMINT] DRINKS PROPOSED Charter ..comments please.

["Richard Shockey" <[e-mail]>]

I think I have incorporated most of the comments received to date based on
Darlys first draft.

More are certainly needed.

Specifically thanks to Ken Cartwright who made excellent grammatical
suggestions.

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DRINKS Proposed Charter 


Data for Reachability of Inter/tra-NetworK SIP


Current Status: Proposed Working Group


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Area Directorate: Real Time Applications (RAI)


RAI Director(s):

Jon Peterson [e-mail]
Cullen Jennings [e-mail]

Chairs: TBD


PROPOSED CHARTER FOR PEPPERMINT

The IETF has been working on various aspects of SIP-enabled Multimedia
administrative domains among SIP Service Providers (SSPs. SSP's are entities
that provide session services utilizing SIP signaling to their customers. In
addition, the IETF has done significant work on data exchanges among various
network elements. 

The ENUM and SPEERMINT working groups provide the underlying context for
much of the intended work that the DRINKS working group will undertake.:

The ENUM working group is specifically chartered to develop protocols that
involve the translation of E.164 numbers to URIs.  While the SPEERMINT
working group has been chartered to develop requirements and best current
practices among real-time application SSPs and to describe how such services
may best interconnect across administrative boundaries.  

More specifically, SPEERMINT will provide details of how Session
Establishment Data (SED) is collected, what comprises SED, how SED should be
used to properly identify an optimal path to a destination SIP user agent
(UA), and the secure manners in which SED and the SIP session data is
exchanged between the peering functions.

It is also recognized that peering relationships become more complex as
multiple peers are added to a common relationship; these complex aspects and
requirements are defined within the contexts of a peering Federation.  

The DRINKS working group is chartered with a scope that is orthogonal to
SPEERMINT and ENUM.  The protocol work OF DRINKS will be designed to build
from the work of SPEERMINT and ENUM to identify and define the data
structures and data exchange protocol(s) among SIP based Multimedia
administrative domains.

These administrative domains may be of any practical size and could be any
type of SSP, such as recognized telephony carriers, enterprises, end-user
groups, or Federations.  Data exchanges among these administrative domains
may be bi-lateral or multi-lateral in nature, and could include bulk updates
and/or more granular real-time updates.

Typical data includes the mapping of phone numbers to URIs, policies
surrounding admission to various points of network interconnection, and
various other types of interconnect data.  In addition, there is a specific
need for the exchange of such data between the Registry and various types of
PSTN network databases.

The working group will draw upon expert advice and on-going consultation
from the ENUM and SPEERMINT working groups, and also the XML Directorate.
The working group will consider the reuse of elements of RFC 4114.

The final work product(s) from this working group will utilize and be based
on XML documents and XML document exchanges.



PROPOSED GOALS AND MILESTONES


Requirements for Session Establishment Data (SED) data exchanges.
Sept 08 

Provisioning of Session Establishment Data (SED) registries.
Nov 08

Provisioning of Localized Session Establishment Data (SED) caches.

Richard Shockey
Director, Member of the Technical Staff
NeuStar
46000 Center Oak Plaza - Sterling, VA 20166
PSTN Office +1 571.434.5651 
PSTN Mobile: [phone]
<mailto:richard(at)shockey.us> 
<mailto:richard.shockey(at)neustar.biz>



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