Subject: Protocol Action: 'A Session Description Protocol (SDP) Offer/Answer Mechanism to Enable File Transfer' to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT)

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

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.