I would like to bring to your attention a new initiative in the SIP Forum to make recommendations on and stimulate implementation and deployment of a basic UA configuration mechanism. The SIP configuration framework (draft-ietf-sipping-config-framework-15) is now pretty mature and some server and device developers are starting to implement. The framework addresses a number of different use cases and is fairly comprehensive. This does, however, mean that it appears as a significant item to develop. On the other hand, the most pressing need is for a basic bootstrap mechanism that will work in the most common situations (e.g., ATA, soft client, enterprise phone) and is fairly easy to implement.
A new UA configuration group has been established within the SIP Forum Technical Working Group to advance this work. The an initial deliverable in the form of a Technical Recommendation is to be produced, aiming at having it substantially written by February/March 2009 with a view to having some initial implementations to test at SIPit in May 2009. At present we are seeking an editor for the work and hope to have proposals for outline and scope for discussion at an ad hoc meeting during IETF 73 in Minneapolis. Thereafter work will progress through regular teleconferences and email. The idea is to produce a fairly short document specifying a basic bootstrap profile(s) of the SIP configuration framework and a few essential parameters. Also relationship to the Broadband Forum's TR-69 is being taken into account. The group is interested in getting more potential device and server developers on board, so that implementation experience can feed into the work and also to encourage a good population of implementations for testing at SIPit. If you would like to participate in this work, please join the ua-config mailing list at: http://sipforum.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-config John Elwell SIP Forum UA configuration chair p.s., please do not respond on this topic to the sip-implementors list _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
