Internet Engineering Task Force

Session Initiation Protocol Core (sipcore)

Last Modified: 2010-04-16

Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/sipcore

Chair(s):

Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Director(s):

Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Advisor:

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion: sipcore@ietf.org
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Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/

Description of Working Group:

The Session Initiation Protocol Core (SIPCore) working group is
chartered to maintain and continue the development of the core SIP
specifications, currently defined as proposed standard RFCs 3261, 3262,
3263, 3264, and 3265.

The SIPCore working group will concentrate on specifications that
update or replace the core SIP specifications. In this context,
"update" means replacing or modifying protocol elements in the above
listed RFCs in ways that would affect most or all implementations of
those RFCs alone. Extensions to SIP that add new functionality that
would not be required of all implementations will be done outside of
this WG. The process and requirements for such extensions are
documented in RFC 3427bis, "Change Process for the Session Initiation
Protocol".

Throughout its work, the group will strive to maintain the basic
model and architecture defined by SIP. In particular:

1. Services and features are provided end-to-end whenever possible.

2. Reuse of existing Internet protocols and architectures and
integrating with other Internet applications is crucial.

The primary source of change requirements will be a) interoperability
problems that stem from ambiguous, or under-defined specification,
and b) requirements from other working groups in the RAI Area.

Although in general the WG will not work on extensions to SIP, it
may take on some previous work items from the SIP working group
to allow for a smooth transition. The adoption of new items requires
explicit agreement from the AD or rechartering.

Goals and Milestones:

Jul 2009		Delivering request-URI and parameters to UAS via proxy to IESG (PS)
Jul 2009		INFO package framework to IESG (PS)
Aug 2009		Termination of early dialog prior to final response to IESG (PS)
Aug 2009		Location Conveyance with SIP to IESG (PS)
Oct 2009		Example security flows to IESG (Informational)
Oct 2009		Invite Transaction Handling Correction to IESG (PS)
Oct 2009		Extension for use in etags in conditional notification toIESG (PS)
Dec 2009		SIP Events throttling mechanism to IESG (PS)
Dec 2009		Mechanism for indicating support for keep-alives (PS)
Dec 2009		Error corrections and clarifications to RFC3265 to IESG (PS)
Jan 2010		Presence Scaling Requirements to IESG as Info

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