The IESG has received a request from the Binary Floor Control Protocol Bis WG (bfcpbis) to consider the following document: - 'The WebSocket Protocol as a Transport for the Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)' <draft-ietf-bfcpbis-bfcp-websocket-13.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-01-11. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The WebSocket protocol enables two-way realtime communication between clients and servers. This document specifies a new WebSocket sub- protocol as a reliable transport mechanism between Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) entities to enable usage of BFCP in new scenarios. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfcpbis-bfcp-websocket/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfcpbis-bfcp-websocket/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
