Re: [XCON] I-D Action:draft-ietf-xcon-ccmp-04.txt

["Duddy, Sean (Sean)" <duddy at avaya.com>]

Some comments on the latest ccmp draft:-

General: 
	The new <xcon:conference-password> element needs to be expanded
to indicate its type.
	E.g. a conference could have a moderator and conferee password
and the ccmp client would
	need to know which is which.


6.1 CCMP Request Message Type
	confUserID/password
	The purpose of these elements is not clear. The draft states
that the password should contain
	the value of the xcon:conference-password element. 
	
	Section 6.3.6 states that the XCON-USERID could be an
administrator or some other non conference participating user
	of the ccmp server. In this case, the password field in the
request would be that of the administrator and would have nothing to
	do with the conferences he/she is about to provision.
	
	So to summarise: The request password field may be a conference
password  but it also may be some other piece of info to authenticate
	the client issuing the command.

6.3.2.  confsRequest and confsResponse
	A filter mechanism needs to be specified here to allow clients
only retreieve a subset of conferences based on search crieteria.
	e.g. A ccmp client might only be interested in conferences
pertaining to a certain user or active conferences between a date range
etc.
	
6.3.2   Related to the 6.1 issues, if an administrator wants to retrieve
a user belonging to a conference, where in the userRequest message
        is the user XCON ID specified? It looks like it is specified in
confUserID which would be wrong in this case....
	
6.3.4.  confRequest and confResponse
	This is a general question. If one develops a CCMP based
provisioning client to simply provision conferences on the server,
	they are not interested in the conference runtime parameters of
conferences like the <user> entities. Not a big deal for the client, 
	they can simply ignore this info, but it is a significent
performance hit for the CCMP server to provide up to date conference
runtime 
	info to clients... I think we need some mechanism to avoid this
overhead for clients that do not need this info.

10 HTTP Transport
	Link 'Section 7.2.1.' does not exist

Sean
 

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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This draft is a work item of the Centralized Conferencing Working Group
of the IETF.


	Title           : Centralized Conferencing Manipulation Protocol
	Author(s)       : M. Barnes, et al.
	Filename        : draft-ietf-xcon-ccmp-04.txt
	Pages           : 98
	Date            : 2009-11-11

The Centralized Conferencing Manipulation Protocol (CCMP) can create,
retrieve, change and delete objects describing a centralized conference,
such as state and capabilities of the conference, participants, and
their roles.  The conference information is contained in XML documents
and fragments conforming to the centralized conferencing data model
schema.  Even though the goal of the CCMP is to appropriately manage
conference state, the mechanisms upon which the protocol itself is built
are based on a state-less request/response paradigm.  Conferencing
clients send requests to conference servers, which respond to the client
with the conference information.

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