The IESG has received a request from the Media Server Control WG (mediactrl) to consider the following document: - 'Media Resource Brokering' <draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb-15.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 2012-10-22. 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 MediaCtrl work group in the IETF has proposed an architecture for controlling media services. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used as the signalling protocol which provides many inherent capabilities for message routing. In addition to such signalling properties, a need exists for intelligent, application level media service selection based on non-static signalling properties. This is especially true when considered in conjunction with deployment architectures that include 1:M and M:N combinations of Application Servers and Media Servers. This document introduces a Media Resource Broker (MRB) entity which manages the availability of Media Servers and the media resource demands of Application Servers. The document includes potential deployment options for an MRB and appropriate interfaces to Application Servers and Media Servers. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1876/
