A Framework for Conferencing with SIP

Status: Sipping work item, draft -05. This is the replacement for draft-rosenberg-sipping-conferencing-framework and draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-models. Under IESG review.
Date of last update: May 26, 2005
Authors: J. Rosenberg
Current Document: draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-framework-05 [.txt]
Summary: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) supports the initiation, modification, and termination of media sessions between user agents. These sessions are managed by SIP dialogs, which represent a SIP relationship between a pair of user agents. Because dialogs are between pairs of user agents, SIP's usage for two-party communications (such as a phone call), is obvious. Communications sessions with multiple participants, generally known as conferencing, is more complicated. This document defines a framework for how such conferencing can occur. This framework describes the overall architecture, terminology, and protocol components needed for multi-party conferencing.
Archive of older drafts:
  1. draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-framework-04 [.txt], February 23, 2005
  2. draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-framework-03 [.txt], October 18, 2004
  3. draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-framework-02 [.txt][.html], June 29, 2004
  4. draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-framework-01 [.txt][.html], October 2003
  5. Conferencing Framework, SIPPING Item -00, May 1, 2003
  6. Conferencing Framework, Invididual Item -01, February 12, 2003
  7. Conferencing Framework, Invididual Item -00, October 22, 2002
  8. conf models SIPPING Work Item -01, July 2002
  9. conf models SIPPING Work Item -00, November 5, 2001
  10. conf-models Individual draft -01, July 2001
  11. conf-models Individual draft -00, November, 2000
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