The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Framework for Centralized Conferencing ' <draft-ietf-xcon-framework-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Centralized Conferencing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Cullen Jennings and Jon Peterson. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xcon-framework-11.txt Technical Summary This document defines the framework for Centralized Conferencing. The framework allows participants using various call signaling protocols, such as SIP, H.323, Jabber and various protocols used in the PSTN, to exchange media in a centralized unicast conference. The Centralized Conferencing Framework defines logical entities and naming conventions, along with a high level conferencing data model. The framework also outlines a set of conferencing protocols, which are complementary to the call signaling protocols, for building advanced conferencing applications. The framework binds all the defined components together for the benefit of builders of conferencing systems. Working Group Summary This document is a product of the XCON working group. It captures some of the most important consensus decisions in the working group's history, and forms the foundation of the conference control protocol that XCON will ultimately publish. Document Quality The document has been reviewed for technical quality by Adam Roach. The document specifies a framework and important concepts, but does not define an implementable protocol (which is a separate deliverable of the XCON working group). A group of students at Universita' di Napoli Federico II (Naples University) have implemented their own protocol based on the concepts in the XCON framework; however, because no protocol has been formally defined by XCON yet, interoperability isn't possible. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/confiance/ for details. The document itself underwent a detailed review by assigned reviewers in September of 2005. Detailed reviewers included David Morgan, Oscar Novo, Roni Even, and Umesh Chandra. Note to RFC Editor OLD Today, users often have passwords containing up to 30 bits NEW Today, users often have passwords containing up to 30 bits of entropy OLD users' visibility (including "anonymous" and "hidden") may be NEW users' identity (including "anonymous" and "hidden") may be _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
