Subject: [dispatch] ACH RESTful Interface

From: "Shekh-Yusef, Rifaat (Rifaat)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:12:54 -0500

Hi,

The following is a charter proposal for the ACH RESTful Interface WG.
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yusef-dispatch-ach-rest-api/

This work started in the BLISS WG, which is closing down. We are trying to find a new home for this work.
We would like to discuss this in the coming DISPATCH meeting in IETF 80.

We would appreciate any thoughts and comments on the charter proposal, and any general comments on this work.

Regards,
 Rifaat

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Charter Proposal (version 1)

Possible WG Names: Open for ideas

When a call is targeted at a called user, often the call is subject to some automatic handling to determine whether to present the call to the user or take some alternative action such as forwarding to voicemail. Some of this automatic handling can be done on the proxy, while others can be done on the phone.

Phones need a mechanism to directly affect the automatic call handling behavior on SIP Proxies. Currently, there is no standard mechanism that allows User Agents to do just that. As a result, different implementations have approached the issue in different ways, which results in interoperability problems when these different implementations where deployed together.

This working group will define a RESTful Interface that allows the User Agent to affect the automatic call handling of various network based features.

Deliverables

Nov 2011     Use Cases and Requirements to IESG as Informational RFC
Feb 2012     Protocol specification to IESG as PS