A Session Description Protocol (SDP) Offer/Answer Mechanism to Enable File Transfer
RFC 5547

Approval announcement
Draft of message to be sent after approval:

Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, 
    mmusic mailing list <mmusic@ietf.org>, 
    mmusic chair <mmusic-chairs@tools.ietf.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'A Session Description Protocol (SDP) 
         Offer/Answer Mechanism to Enable File Transfer' to Proposed 
         Standard 

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'A Session Description Protocol (SDP) Offer/Answer Mechanism to Enable 
   File Transfer '
   <draft-ietf-mmusic-file-transfer-mech-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control 
Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Cullen Jennings and Jon Peterson.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mmusic-file-transfer-mech-11.txt

Ballot Text

Technical summary:

        The document defines extensions to the SDP offer/answer model
to enable file transfer as part of SDP-negotiated multimedia
sessions.  It also specifies using MSRP for the actual file
transmission.

    Working Group summary:

        The MMUSIC WG has firm consenses on publishing this document
as Proposed Standard.

    Document quality:

        The document is considered ready for publication.

    An early interoperability test of independent implementations
from various major vendors on an image sharing specification
(which uses the file transfer I-D as a basis) took place
already in 2007 under the auspices of the GSM Association.
The interop event provided useful input for this and other
specifications.

    Personnel:

        The document shepherd is Joerg Ott, the responsible AD is
Cullen Jennings.

RFC Editor Note