Evaluation: draft-ietf-sipping-3pcc - Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control in the Session Initiation Protocol

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Last Call to expire on: 2002-06-03

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                      Yes  No-Objection  Discuss  Abstain
Harald Alvestrand    [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Steve Bellovin       [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Randy Bush           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bill Fenner          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ned Freed            [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ted Hardie           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Russ Housley         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Allison Mankin       [ X ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Thomas Narten        [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Erik Nordmark        [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Jon Peterson         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bert Wijnen          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Alex Zinin           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]

2/3 (9) Yes or No-Objection opinions needed to pass.

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Subject: Protocol Action: Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control 
     in the Session Initiation Protocol to BCP 
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Best Current Practices for
Third Party Call Control in the Session Initiation Protocol'
<draft-ietf-sipping-3pcc-04.txt> as a BCP. This document is the
product of the Session Initiation Proposal Investigation Working
Group. The IESG contact persons are A. Mankin and J. Peterson.

Technical Summary

      Third party call control refers to the ability of one entity to
      create a call in which communications is actually between other
      parties. Third party call control is possible using the mechanisms
      specified within the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). However,
      there are several possible approaches, each with different benefits
      and drawbacks. This document discusses best current practices for the
      usage of SIP for third party call control.

      Security and identity are important issues in third party call control.
      The document provides recommendations for the controller to use a
      credentialled identity. It also provides recommendations to ensure that
      the two endpoints in the third party controlled call can set up end-to-end
      secured media.

Working Group Summary

        There was strong working group consensus to advance this document and
        it has a significant pull from the community, including 3GPP. There were
        no issues raised during IETF Last Call.

Protocol Quality

        The document was reviewed for the IESG by Eric Rescorla and Allison Mankin