Path-decoupled Signaling for Data BoF (offpath) o 66th IETF - Montreal, Quebec, Canada o 1740-1840 Afternoon Session III o 1850-1950 Afternoon Session IV Monday, July 10, 2006 ======================================== Synopsis: Path-decoupled (or off-path) signaling, in the form of SIP, has proven to be a very powerful mechanism for facilitating media connection establishment between hosts. It provides friendly naming, discovery, user mobility, authentication, transport and application negotiation, and even NAT/FW traversal for UDP and, more recently, TCP. Furthermore, it is network independent, working equally well for IPv4 and IPv6. This set of features, however, would be attractive to all types of data sessions, not just media. The purpose of this BoF is to gauge interest in creating an IRTF (research) group to design an off-path signaling approach for establishing all kinds of non-public-server data sessions. For more info, see http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/francis/offpath/ ======================================== AGENDA o Update: 2006-06-23 o Timeslot 2.5 hours 10 Administrative Aaron Falk (Chair) - Blue sheets - Minutes and Jabber scribe - Intro and BoF Goals (form IRTF group) - Agenda bashing 20 Problem Statement Paul Francis I-D : none Supporting Material: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/francis/offpath/ GOAL: Presentation/Discussion 25 Mark Handley's take on all this Mark Handley I-D: none GOAL: Presentation/Discussion 15 History and Architectural Background Allison Mankin (in IETF) I-D : none GOAL: Presentation/Discussion 30 Cornell Design and Implementation Saikat Guha I-D : none (see above supporting material) GOAL: Presentation/Discussion 20 Goals of IRTF group Aaron Falk GOAL: Discussion 05 Closing Chairs ===== 125 mins