A Conference Control Package for Media Control Channel Framework Chris Boulton, Tim Melanchuk, Scott

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A Conference Control Package for Media Control
Channel FrameworkChris Boulton, Tim Melanchuk,
Scott McGlashan draft-boulton-conference-control
-package-04

• IETF 71
• Philadelphia, PA, US

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Overview

• A Media Control Channel Package providing basic
  conferencing functionality
• Conference, join connections to conference, etc
• Out of scope advanced video layout, etc
• First version released in June 2006
• Version 04 released February 2008
• Outstanding issues to be addressed in next
  version
• Author request this I-D to become a MediaCtrl
  Work Item

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Conference Control Package

• Core elements
• ltcreateconferencegt
• ltmodifyconferencegt
• ltdestroyconferencegt
• ltjoingt
• ltmodifyjoingt
• ltunjoingt
• ltresponsegt
• lteventgt (e.g. active speaker notifications)

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Update with relevant changes agreed for IVR
package

• Conference/connection id name change
• Notifications as CONTROL messages with 200
  response
• IVR21 conference and connection established
  before join operation applied
• XML syntax improvements

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Outstanding Issues 1/2

• Clarify media scope
• Aim to cover audio conferencing and basic video
  conferencing (switching and pre-defined
  templates) but not defining video layout, text
  overlays, etc (advanced package).
• RT text conferencing out of scope?
• Align with XCON data model
• Some aspects currently identified as relevant
  ltavailable-mediagt, ltmixing-modegt, ltcodecsgt, etc.
  Further clarifications required.

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Outstanding Issues 2/2

• Clarify interoperation with BFCP
• See Lorenzo et al BFCP Control Package
• Other issues to address?