A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area. The IESG has not made any determination yet. The following draft charter was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg at ietf.org) by 2014-10-01. Web-Based Push Notifications (webpush) ------------------------------------------------ Current Status: Proposed WG Assigned Area Director: Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in> Mailing list Address: webpush@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/webpush Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/webpush/current/maillist.html Charter: Many applications require continuous access to network communications so that real-time events - such as incoming calls or messages - can be conveyed ("pushed") to the user in a timely fashion. Uncoordinated use of the network by multiple applications can contribute to unnecessary use of the network on devices. For instance, maintaining sessions can dominate costs over the long term, since pushed events are relatively rare. This is particularly onerous for battery-powered devices, on which network communication contributes a significant proportion of power usage. Each independent session independently incurs overheads, causing unnecessary resource usage on devices. Several modern computing platforms provide a push notification service that consolidates application events, distributing those events to applications as they arrive. The single session avoids duplicated overhead costs on devices. This working group will develop a protocol that applications can use to request the delivery of data to a device using a consolidated push notification service. This protocol will include the ability to push the same message to multiple subscribed devices. The work may describe a protocol that allows a device to subscribe to a push service and receive pushed messages. This work will be done in collaboration with the W3C Webapps Working Group, who are developing a Web Push API for use in web applications (see <http://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/>). Milestones: Nov 2015 - Send web push protocol draft to the IESG as Proposed Standard
