Technical Summary:
This document provides a SOAP (over HTTPS) transport protocol for
implementing the Session Peering Provisioning Framework (SPPF; draft
-ietf-drinks-spp-framework). SPPF specifies the data model and the
overall structure to provision session establishment data into Session
Data Registries and SIP Service Provider data stores.
Working Group Summary:
The chairs believe that there is consensus behind this document. There
has not been any disagreement on the content of this I-D . Some
participants of the working group (and external observers) have
periodically expressed concern over the use of SOAP and questioned why
RESTful web service is not being used. The Working Group has discussed
this on multiple occasions and the act that more provisioning systems
that are meant to employ SPPF already use SOAP, it is the one that is
currently in demand for practical use. It is important to note that
SPPF is limited to identifying the data model specification. Should
the need arise for a RESTful service based transport protocol
specification , or even a binary protocol for various reasons, it can
be derived from the SPPF in the future. Therefore , the WG Chairs
believe that this has resulted in general consensus to progress this
document for consideration as an RFC.
Document Quality:
A few working group participants have developed a prototype-level
implementation, involving programmers who were not involved in the
framework or transport protocol design efforts. Lessons learned from
that implementation were fed back into the documents. Furthermore, the
SPPF design team includes several potential implementers, who have
verified the I-D content as ready for implementation.
Personnel:
Syed W. Ali is serving the role of Document Shepherd, and Ben
Campbell is the responsible AD.