From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce Message-Id: Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:24:49 -0500 Cc: xcon chair , Internet Architecture Board , xcon chair , xcon mailing list , RFC Editor Subject: [XCON] Protocol Action: 'The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) ' as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Centralized Conferencing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Jon Peterson. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xcon-bfcp-06.txt Technical Summary Floor control is a means to manage joint or exclusive access to shared resources in a (multiparty) conferencing environment. Thereby, floor control complements other functions -- such as conference and media session setup, conference policy manipulation, and media control -- that are realized by other protocols. This document specifies the Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP). BFCP is used between floor participants and floor control servers, and between floor chairs (i.e., moderators) and floor control servers. Working Group Summary The working group carefully reviewed architectures for this space, and several protocol directions, and then concluded that this was the right direction. There was strong support for this document, and it received multiple reviews during working group last call. Protocol Quality The Area Director has been told of test implementation (and implementation of test suites) for BFCP, within the context of its 3GPP usage. The Responsible Area Director was Allison Mankin. The Editor, Gonzalo Camarillo, took the initiative in shepherding the Discuss comments.