The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Session Description Protocol (SDP) Format for Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) Streams' (draft-ietf-bfcpbis-rfc4583bis-27.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Binary Floor Control Protocol Bis Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adam Roach, Alexey Melnikov and Ben Campbell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfcpbis-rfc4583bis/ Technical Summary This document defines the Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer/answer procedures for negotiating and establishing Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) steams. BFCP is used between floor participants and floor control servers, and between floor chairs (i.e., moderators) and floor control servers. Floor control is a means to manage joint or exclusive access to shared resources in a (multiparty) conferencing environment. This document obsoletes RFC 4583. Working Group Summary This document was thoroughly reviewed by members of the BFCPBIS WG. Document Quality There are existing implementations of RFC 4583 and this document has been implemented by at least one vendor. The formation of the BFCPBIS WG was triggered by the IMTC, who defined the use of BFCP in their SIP Best Current Practices for Video profile. The vendors that had implemented BFCP found the need to also use UDP in certain situations, thus the interested parties brought the proposal, along with an initial version of this draft to the IETF (DISPATCH WG). Personnel Mary Barnes is the Document Shepherd. Adam Roach is the Responsible AD.
