The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Session Peering Provisioning (SPP) Protocol over SOAP' (draft-ietf-drinks-spp-protocol-over-soap-09.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Data for Reachability of Inter/tra-NetworK SIP Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Barry Leiba, Ben Campbell and Alissa Cooper. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-drinks-spp-protocol-over-soap/ Technical Summary: This document provides a SOAP (over HTTPS) transport protocol for implementing the Session Peering Provisioning Framework (SPPF; draft -ietf-drinks-spp-framework). SPPF specifies the data model and the overall structure to provision session establishment data into Session Data Registries and SIP Service Provider data stores. Working Group Summary: The chairs believe that there is consensus behind this document. There has not been any disagreement on the content of this I-D . Some participants of the working group (and external observers) have periodically expressed concern over the use of SOAP and questioned why RESTful web service is not being used. The Working Group has discussed this on multiple occasions and the act that more provisioning systems that are meant to employ SPPF already use SOAP, it is the one that is currently in demand for practical use. It is important to note that SPPF is limited to identifying the data model specification. Should the need arise for a RESTful service based transport protocol specification , or even a binary protocol for various reasons, it can be derived from the SPPF in the future. Therefore , the WG Chairs believe that this has resulted in general consensus to progress this document for consideration as an RFC. Document Quality: A few working group participants have developed a prototype-level implementation, involving programmers who were not involved in the framework or transport protocol design efforts. Lessons learned from that implementation were fed back into the documents. Furthermore, the SPPF design team includes several potential implementers, who have verified the I-D content as ready for implementation. Personnel: Syed W. Ali is serving the role of Document Shepherd, and Ben Campbell is the responsible AD.
