Subject: SIP for Networked Appliances

From: Stan Moyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:04:16 -0400

Since my presentation during the SIP WG meeting at the Pittsburgh IETF on 
"SIP for Networked Appliances" there has been a lot of discussion on this 
topic on the SIP mailing list. Per Brian Rosen's (one of the SIP WG chairs) 
suggestion (see e-mail below), we have created a mailing list expressly for 
the discussion of this topic. The list is [email-masked] 
and you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to 
[email-masked] with the word "subscribe" in the 
*Subject* line of the e-mail.

We have also created an accompanying web page at 
http://www.research.telcordia.com/iapp/

The (initial) plan for the new networked appliances mailing list is to 
continue the discussion begun on this mailing list regarding the use of SIP 
for networked appliances. We plan to request a BoF at the San Diego IETF 
and submit several more Internet Drafts on this subject.

We welcome everyone to participate.

Thanks,
-Stan

Stan Moyer
Director, Internet Services Infrastructure Research
<[email-masked]>; Telcordia Technologies,
MCC-1A238R, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960-6438
voice: +1 973 829 4923; fax: +1 973 829 5889
http://www.argreenhouse.com/bios/stanm/

>From: "Rosen, Brian" <[email-masked]>
>To: [email-masked]
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:14:53 -0400
>Subject: [SIP] SIP for Appliances
>
>The discussion on SIP for appliances has been fascinating,
>and many good points have been raised.  Use of SIP to CONTROL
>appliances may or may not be the greatest thing since sliced
>bread, but, unfortunately, falls outside of the SIP working
>group charter:
>"SIP is a text-based protocol, similar to HTTP and SMTP, for
>initiating interactive communication sessions between users.
>Such sessions include voice, video, chat, interactive games,
>and virtual reality."
>
>We encourage the authors of the draft to create a mailing list
>for the subject.  They will be welcome to post an announcement
>of such a list on the main SIP list.  If the discussion proves as
>lively as it has been, you may consider asking for a BOF at the
>next IETF meeting.
>
>Since we have a ton of work to accomplish that falls within the
>charter of the SIP WG, the chairs would like to cut off discussion
>of this subject on the SIP list.
>
>We do not wish to curtail sip discussions that focus on devices
>that facilitate multimedia communications between users
>(such as dedicated IP phones, kitchen-counter mail/web/sip boxes,
>set-top-boxes, and so on). These are within scope, and are encouraged.
>
>Brian Rosen
>Joerg Ott
>Dean Willis