The formation of the Remote Conferencing Working Group is in response to the need to collect together the bits and pieces necessary to conduct collaborative work across the Internet. It is the outgrowth of the recognition of a set of requirements and areas of work identified at the Santa Fe IETF in November, 1991 and reinforced at the MCNC/NSF videoconferencing workshop in December, 1991. The purpose of the Remote Conferencing Working Group is to serve as a focal point for the many research activities required to bring remote conferencing over the Internet to a reality and to ensure that a complete end-to-end OPEN architecture is produced that will enable the many functional implementations required for remote conferencing to become a commonplace occurrence among the Internet community members. The architecture will address both the workstation and conference room environments and, in addition to video and audio, will cover other media commonly used in local conferencing such as data, text, still images and CD-ROM. In general, the varied forms of conferencing that can be integrated into user workstations and desktops will be covered. Specific milestones for this WG are aggressive and defined through March, 1993. Some likely areas of work are listed for timeframes beyond then and the WG will probably be in existance for several years as new technology and increased bandwidth spawn additional conferencing application opportunities. The Remote Conferencing WG will focus on producing the conference session architecture, from conference planning/scheduling to conference set-up/initiation, maintenance, change, and termination. It will address multi-point conferencing in a tightly controlled small conference environment and also cover large broadcast type of conferences in a loosely controlled environment. The Working Group will also be a focal point for equipment manufacturers who develop products such as codecs, workstations and routers. Standards and interoperability are major focus items. The deliverable will consist of an architecture description, supporting protocols, referenced dependent architectures, RFC's, standards etc, statement of applications supported and guidelines on network resources required. While the Remote Conferencing WG will develop portions of the overall architecture, it will depend upon, influence, work closely with and integrate the results of related work such as the Connection Control Protocol effort at ISI, the Audio/Visual Transport WG, IP Multicast and the current research efforts on network resource management. The WG will ask for/commission additional separate WG activities as required.