Re: [Simple] The need for draft-denis-simple-msrp-comedia-01.txt

[Ben Campbell <ben at estacado.net>]

The only reason that comedia is not a core part of MSRP is that when  
we were working on connection management, COMEDIA was still a work-in- 
progress and had limitations that seemed to prevent it from being a  
good fit for MSRP. It was not clear at that time that those  
limitations would be addressed. MMUSIC alledgedly did address those  
limitations, but by the time they had done so, we were well down the  
road with MSRP and chose not to go back and change that part. (MSRP  
was taking so long that if we stopped and adapted to each change in  
dependencies, we would have never completed.)

This is why RFC 4975 ended up with weasel-words around the connection  
direction that hinted that the existing approach should be considered  
a "default", and that if we later standardized a way to negotiate  
this, we could relax the normative requirement.

I agree in general that a draft on using COMEDIA for MSRP is a good  
thing. I have not sufficiently digested the draft in question to form  
an opinion on the draft itself--but it's in my queue. I suggest we  
take a stab at this, and that if we later discover that issues that  
prevent COMEDIA and MSRP from being a good fit without major changes  
to one or the other, we bail quickly. If we do not discover such  
issues, I expect (or maybe just hope)  that this would not be a huge  
effort.

Ben.


On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:17 PM, <Markus.Isomaki at nokia.com> <Markus.Isomaki at nokia.com 
 > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To my understanding there are actually three different models how  
> people
> may want to setup MSRP:
>
> 1. Reusing the B2BUA/SBC infra they have for voice already. For this
> draft-denis-simple-msrp-comedia would be needed.
> 2. Reusing the ICE/TURN infra they may have sometime in the future.  
> For
> this draft-niemi-simple-msrp-ice would make sense.
> 3. Building a special infra based on MSRP relays. This is what we have
> as RFC already.
>
> So it seems that we will probably need to support all of these three
> models. Each has their pros and cons, so there is no single answer  
> which
> one is the best. Personally I'm only aware of plans by some
> ISPs/operators to deploy MSRP according to model 1. Model 2 would be
> nice by the time we have ICE and TURN deployed, but that will still  
> take
> time to happen. Model 3 probably makes sense for instance for
> enterprises who want to log messages and so on, but haven't heard of  
> any
> plans for it either.
>
> So, +1 for the counter for draft-denis-simple-msrp-comedia.
>
> Markus
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> 	From: simple-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:simple-bounces at ietf.org]
> On Behalf Of ext Hisham Khartabil
> 	Sent: 01 April, 2008 07:54
> 	To: Hadriel Kaplan
> 	Cc: simple at ietf.org
> 	Subject: Re: [Simple] The need for
> draft-denis-simple-msrp-comedia-01.txt
> 	
> 	
> 	(As an individual)
> 	
> 	If RFC4976 is not the solution that people are willing to adopt,
> then I would like to promote draft-niemi-simple-msrp-ice.
> 	
> 	Thanks,
> 	Hisham
> 	
> 	
> 	On 19/03/2008, Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan at acmepacket.com> wrote:
>
> 		Howdy,
> 		I noticed that draft-denis-simple-msrp-comedia-01.txt
> was not on the agenda for simple this past week, and I wasn't sure  
> why.
> When it was presented a while back I thought there was interest for it
> shown in the WG meeting, and it really is needed.  Turns out it's
> because there hasn't been enough traffic on it in the mailing list.   
> So
> this email is being sent to increase whatever counter exists for such
> things.
> 		;)
> 		
> 		This draft should be a WG item, imho.  It's not the only
> problem to fix, but it's a non-trivial change/extension that needs  
> to be
> available before too many UA's/AS's get out there.  This type of thing
> really needs to be done as early as possible, methinks.
> 		
> 		-hadriel
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