Re: Fwd: Protocol Action: 'Connection Establishment for Media Anchoring (CEMA) for the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-simple-msrp-cema-07.txt)

Me, too. It was a long time for me, and an even longer time for Christer! A nice, cold, Canadian beer is in our future!

On Jul 9, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Christer Holmberg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I also want to say Thank You to everyone who has been involved in the process, providing feedback and input.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Christer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Campbell [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:15 PM
> To: Simple WG
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [Simple] Fwd: Protocol Action: 'Connection Establishment for Media     Anchoring (CEMA)        for the Message Session Relay Protocol  (MSRP)' to Proposed     Standard (draft-ietf-simple-msrp-cema-07.txt)
> 
> Congratulations and thanks to Christer, Staffan, and Eric, as well as everyone who engaged in the discussion on this list and in the WG meetings. This has been a long, hard, process.
> 
> This leaves only two drafts remaining on the SIMPLE charter!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ben.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: The IESG <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [Simple] Protocol Action: 'Connection Establishment for Media Anchoring (CEMA)       for the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)' to Proposed      Standard (draft-ietf-simple-msrp-cema-07.txt)
>> Date: July 6, 2012 8:54:16 AM CDT
>> To: IETF-Announce <[email protected]>
>> Cc: simple chair <[email protected]>, simple mailing list <[email protected]>, RFC Editor <[email protected]>
>> 
>> The IESG has approved the following document:
>> - 'Connection Establishment for Media Anchoring (CEMA) for the Message
>>  Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)'
>> (draft-ietf-simple-msrp-cema-07.txt) as Proposed Standard
>> 
>> This document is the product of the SIP for Instant Messaging and
>> Presence Leveraging Extensions Working Group.
>> 
>> The IESG contact persons are Gonzalo Camarillo and Robert Sparks.
>> 
>> A URL of this Internet Draft is:
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-simple-msrp-cema/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Technical Summary
>> 
>> RFC4976 describes how to use MSRP over special purpose MSRP relays, in order
>> to traverse NATs and firewalls, and to allow network policy enforcement.
>> However, many networks use other middleboxes for this purpose for other
>> SIP-signaled media, and would like to use the same middleboxes for MSRP.
>> This draft describes an extension to MSRP to make it easier for them to do
>> so.
>> 
>> Working Group Summary
>> 
>> The goal of the draft that this one replaced
>> (draft-ietf-simple-msrp-sessmatch) was controversial in the SIMPLE work
>> group. The authors of RFC4975 and 4976 initially objected to the
>> modification of the protocol to make it more friendly to non-standardized
>> middleboxes such as SBCs. However, those objections were generally secondary
>> to security related objections that the older draft interfered with some TLS
>> use cases. The working group has a consensus that the security issues do not
>> apply to the current draft.
>> 
>> In summary, draft-ietf-simple-msrp-cema-03 still extends the MSRP protocol
>> to make it more friendly to middleboxes such as SBCs. The work group
>> believes it does no incremental harm when compared with the case of using
>> MSRP as defined in RFC4975 in the presence of such middleboxes--which would
>> either result in communication failure, or the failure to anchor media at
>> the middlebox.
>> 
>> Document Quality
>> 
>> Multiple participants have implemented or indicated an intent to implement
>> it.
>> 
>> Personnel
>> 
>> The document shepherd for this document is Hisham Khartabil.
>> 
>> The responsible Area Director is Gonzalo Camarillo.
>> 
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