Subject: [Stox] Consensus call: Adopting the "current" drafts as WG documents to match the planned deliverables

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:30:26 +0000

Hi,

The chartered deliverables of STOX are:

1. Address mapping and error handling
2. Presence mapping
3. Mapping for single instant messages
4. Mapping for one-to-one text chat sessions
5. Mapping for multi-user text chat sessions
6. Mapping for media signaling

The plan is that a separate RFC will be published for each of these. 

As the SIP-to-XMPP mapping effort has been going on for some years already even before the WG for it has been setup, we already have a set of relatively mature (individual) drafts to match these deliverables:

draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-core (Peter Saint-Andre, Avshalom Houri, Joe Hildebrand)
draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-presence (Peter Saint-Andre, Avshalom Houri, Joe Hildebrand)
draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-im (Peter Saint-Andre, Avshalom Houri, Joe Hildebrand)
draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-chat (Peter Saint-Andre, Salvatore Loreto, Eddy Gavita, Nazin Hossain)
draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-groupchat (Peter Saint-Andre, Salvatore Loreto, Saul Ibarra Corretge, Fabio Forno)
draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-media (Peter Saint-Andre)

The first milestone of our charter is:

Jun 2013  Accept starting-point mapping specifications as WG items

To meet this on time, we are hereby starting a consensus call on adopting these drafts as WG items, so that they can be submitted as such by the IETF 87 -00 cut-off date (July 8). So, please send your comments on this to the STOX list by the end of next week (June 30), after which the chairs determine if there is a consensus for the WG adoption of these documents. Please send also simple "yes" or "+1" statements to the list, since we want to also see how many active participants we currently have. If you have issues about why the current drafts should not be adopted, please raise them ASAP. 

The other question is about the editors/co-authors of the WG documents. By default we will continue with the same list of co-authors as in the individual documents. So, we would like all the current co-authors to send a note to the chairs whether they are willing to continue (and let us know about your realistic time commitment too). One change has already been agreed: sip-xmpp-media draft will be taken over by Saul Ibarra Corretge and Emil Ivov. In case someone else is willing to volunteers as a co-chair for one or more of the drafts, let the chairs know.

The 'sip-xmpp-media' draft (or the to-be RFC) will still also need a decision about its scope. We'll send a separate mail on that.

Regards,
	Markus & Yana