[MEDIACTRL] WGLC on draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb-12 until 21 Feb 2012

["Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley at avaya.com>]

Eric and I are announcing a Working Group Last Call for this draft:
draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb-12.txt
which can be found at
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb/

The Working Group Last Call will last two weeks, so please send your comments before February 21st.

The authors have improved much of the description, and cleaned up a few technical issues, so please review carefully.

Please be aware of the IPR disclosures regarding this draft (numbers 897, 898, and 899).  They can be found at 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=document_search&document_search=draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb
Comments regarding the impact of the IPR disclosures on the draft are invited.

For the XML - Lorenzo has validated the XML schemas using Eclipse and XML Spy. If you validate against a different validator, it would be helpful if you let me/Eric know, because this will be a question that we answer in the shepherd writeup.

Thanks,

Dale, as WG co-chair

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Media Server Control Working Group of the IETF.
>
>        Title           : Media Resource Brokering
>        Author(s)       : Chris Boulton
>                           Lorenzo Miniero
>                           Gary Munson
>        Filename        : draft-ietf-mediactrl-mrb-12.txt
>        Pages           : 138
>        Date            : 2012-01-09
>
>    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.