This is close enough with our stated goal of achieving draft standard
status (which requires interoperability) that I felt it reasonable to
forward this announcement to the SIP list. besides, it's happening in
conjunction with the next IETF meeting (DW).
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
The 1st SIP Forum SIP Interoperability Workshop (SFSIW-1)
Co-located with the 70th Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting
(IETF 70)
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/70-IETF.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 27 November 2007
Notification of presentation acceptance: 30 November 2007
Workshop date: 3 December 2007, 11am – 12:30pm Pacific Time
AIMS AND SCOPE
SIP has been gaining traction as a preferred network signaling
protocol for
real-time communications networks. There has been a considerable
amount of
low-level protocol testing and interoperability, such as provided by
the SIP
Interoperability Test event, or SIPit, which is in its seventh year.
There
are many independent implementations of clients, servers, proxies,
back-to-back User Agents, registrars, and the like. In addition,
there are
significant network deployments, many at scale.
While this is all good, deployment experience is showing that
interoperability is difficult to achieve. Products from a single
vendor tend
to work well with each other. However, multi-vendor interoperability,
especially above the basic stack level, has historically been
difficult to
achieve. In fact, the proof point of the success of vendors attending
SIPit
indicates interoperability problems may not be due to the specification
itself.
This workshop serves as a forum to bring together researchers,
engineers,
and service providers to exchange ideas, share experiences, and propose
approaches to address interoperability problems. Particular focus
will be on
systemic or architectural problems, as opposed to simple implementation
errors.
If the workshop identifies concrete proposals to improve
interoperability
that would require modifications to the underlying protocols, these
proposals will be forwarded to the appropriate groups in the IETF.
We encourage contributions describing interoperability and SIP. The
topics
of interest include but are not limited to:
* Interoperability failures seen in the field or lab
* Deployment experiences
* Development experiences
* Open source projects and experiences
* Failures discovered in the field after successful lab testing
* Common failure modes
* Interoperability test methodologies
* Interoperability test experiences
* Architectural principals
* Proposals for achieving interoperability
* Proposals for improving development
* Proposals for soliciting additional real-world feedback from
implementers
and service providers
POSITION PAPERS
Individuals must submit a position paper relevant to SIP
interoperability to
participate in the workshop. Acceptable formats are IETF Internet Draft
style (in HTML or plain text), IEEE Computer Society Proceedings
Manuscripts
style (in PDF), ACM Transactions style (in PDF), or presentation
style (in
PDF). The papers should be no longer than 6 pages if in IEEE or ACM
style or
10 pages of text in Internet Draft style. There is no minimum length
requirement. You are allowed to submit relevant, previously published
works.
Papers received by the submission deadline will be posted to the
Workshop
web site, unless the author(s) request withholding publication. The
author(s) may retain copyright or assign it to the SIP Forum or the
IETF. If
you are submitting a paper that already has a copyright assignment,
such as
an IEEE or ACM conference or journal paper, please apply the appropriate
self-publication disclaimers demanded by those organizations.
Submit your position paper using EasyChair at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sfsiw1
WORKSHOP FORMAT
There is only a limited time available at the venue for this first
workshop.
The expectation is this will be a highly interactive workshop. In
order to
frame the conversation, the workshop chair will open the discussion.
At the
discretion of the Program Committee and dependent upon the quality and
number of position papers received, a limited number of position
papers may
be presented. Note that all position papers will be published, unless
the
author(s) request withholding publication.
WORKSHOP FEES
The workshop, including lunch, is free of charge to participants. Stated
differently, submitting a position paper, no matter how brief, pays
for your
lunch. The IETF has graciously provided a conference room at the
venue. As
such, we will not turn away non-participants. However, it is possible
non-participants may not be allowed to participate and certainly will
not
get lunch.
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Robert Sparks
Protocol Barbarian, Estacado Systems
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PROGRAM CHAIR:
Eric Burger
Deputy CTO, BEA Systems
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Robert Sparks, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anwar Siddiqui, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Penfield, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Burger, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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