Overview: Real-Time Protocols for Browser-Based Applications
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2017-11-12
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19 | Amy Vezza | IESG has approved the document |
2017-11-12
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19 | Amy Vezza | Closed "Approve" ballot |
2017-11-12
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19 | Amy Vezza | Ballot approval text was generated |
2017-11-12
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19 | Adam Roach | IESG state changed to Approved-announcement to be sent from IESG Evaluation::AD Followup |
2017-11-11
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2017-11-11
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19 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-19.txt |
2017-11-11
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2017-11-11
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2017-11-11
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2017-08-10
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18 | Adam Roach | [Ballot comment] The GENART review contains a number of editorial nits to be addressed. [Reminder to myself so it doesn't get lost: The reference to … [Ballot comment] The GENART review contains a number of editorial nits to be addressed. [Reminder to myself so it doesn't get lost: The reference to ICE needs to be updated to point to the existing RFC, not the -bis draft; this is based on EKR's earlier Discuss] |
2017-08-10
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18 | Adam Roach | Ballot comment text updated for Adam Roach |
2017-08-10
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18 | Eric Rescorla | [Ballot comment] UPDATE: Removing my discuss. Will let Adam manage this from here. This document seems rather long on philosophy (justifying MTI, the freed to … [Ballot comment] UPDATE: Removing my discuss. Will let Adam manage this from here. This document seems rather long on philosophy (justifying MTI, the freed to innovate material in S 4.) I would remove all this. S 2.4. Why do you have two terminology sections? I would merge them. S 3. The diagrams here seem to assume a federation model that I generally don't see used with WebRTC. So, for instance, the on-the-wire protocols arrow on page 9. Who does that? This also applies to "a commonly imagined model" I would say HTTP(S) in this diagram. You should probably list DTLS, SCTP, and SDP in this section. It's not like we haven't decided we need them. "The functionality groups that are needed in the browser can be specified, more or less from the bottom up, as: ... Connection management: ... SIP and Jingle/XMPP belong in this category." As far as I know, nothing in this layer is specified in WebRTC or implemented in the browser, so this doesn't seem to make sense. |
2017-08-10
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18 | Eric Rescorla | [Ballot Position Update] Position for Eric Rescorla has been changed to No Objection from Discuss |
2017-04-27
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18 | Cindy Morgan | IESG state changed to IESG Evaluation::Revised I-D Needed from IESG Evaluation |
2017-04-27
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18 | Benoît Claise | [Ballot comment] This topic below was discussed during the IESG telechat: Reading from the document objectives, from the abstract: This document gives an overview … [Ballot comment] This topic below was discussed during the IESG telechat: Reading from the document objectives, from the abstract: This document gives an overview and context of a protocol suite intended for use with real-time applications that can be deployed in browsers - "real time communication on the Web". It intends to serve as a starting and coordination point to make sure all the parts that are needed to achieve this goal are findable, and that the parts that belong in the Internet protocol suite are fully specified and on the right publication track. Reading this, I was thinking: great, I will have the full overview. With "deployed", "starting and coordination point to make sure that all the parts ..." I will have some focus on the operational aspects, basically, how should operators operate theses browser-embedded applications. Now, reading further ... This document is intended to serve as the roadmap to the WebRTC specifications. It defines terms used by other parts of the WebRTC protocol specifications, lists references to other specifications that don't need further elaboration in the WebRTC context, and gives pointers to other documents that form part of the WebRTC suite. ... I thought: Ok, if not covered here, at least I will have a pointer to another operational document. But wait: By reading this document and the documents it refers to, it should be possible to have all information needed to implement an WebRTC compatible implementation. So is this only about implementation? I like this document very much as it explains all the RTCWEB pieces in one location. However, there is one important piece missing: the network management considerations. See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5706#appendix-A This is where I'm coming from, discussing some more with Warren (this a cut and past from this ballot): [ Edit: So, after more thought (and some discussion) I think that it would be useful for the document to at least note the fact that technologies like this mean that some of the existing operational practices may need to change. For example, many enterprises perform QoS based upon the fact that certain types of devices live in certain subnets (e.g many phones get placed in a specific VLAN using LLDP or CDP). With more real time content coming from browsers, these matching practices break, and so operators may not be able to QoS mark / prioritize traffic accordingly. Perhaps something like: "One of the implications of a solution like WebRTC is that more real-time traffic will be sourced from computers (and not dedicated devices like telephones or videoconferencing devices). This may have implications for operators performing QoS marking and prioritization" ? This isn't really specific to webrtc, but rather to a more general set of solutions like softphones and the like, but is accelerated by WebRTC. ] In light of the previous discussions about draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-11, the operators are used to manage voice, video, gaming a certain way, with their operational current practices. Now, their current practices might not work any longer. What should they do now in term of monitoring, troubleshooting, QoS, SLA monitoring, etc these days with WebRTC? While we should add this note (or a similar one) in the doc, I'm wondering: where are (should be) those operational aspects discussed, if not here? I've seen https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rtcweb-qos-18, not sure it's appropriate. Anyway, it's now in a RFC-editor state. I could have requested a specific manageability doc in the charter. Too late now. |
2017-04-27
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18 | Benoît Claise | [Ballot Position Update] Position for Benoit Claise has been changed to No Objection from Discuss |
2017-04-27
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18 | Alissa Cooper | [Ballot Position Update] Position for Alissa Cooper has been changed to Yes from No Objection |
2017-04-27
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18 | Alissa Cooper | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Alissa Cooper |
2017-04-27
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18 | Benoît Claise | [Ballot discuss] DISCUSS-DISCUSS: No action for the authors at this point in time. Reading from the document objectives, from the abstract: This document gives … [Ballot discuss] DISCUSS-DISCUSS: No action for the authors at this point in time. Reading from the document objectives, from the abstract: This document gives an overview and context of a protocol suite intended for use with real-time applications that can be deployed in browsers - "real time communication on the Web". It intends to serve as a starting and coordination point to make sure all the parts that are needed to achieve this goal are findable, and that the parts that belong in the Internet protocol suite are fully specified and on the right publication track. Reading this, I was thinking: great, I will have the full overview. With "deployed", "starting and coordination point to make sure that all the parts ..." I will have some focus on the operational aspects, basically, how should operators operate theses browser-embedded applications. Now, reading further ... This document is intended to serve as the roadmap to the WebRTC specifications. It defines terms used by other parts of the WebRTC protocol specifications, lists references to other specifications that don't need further elaboration in the WebRTC context, and gives pointers to other documents that form part of the WebRTC suite. ... I thought: Ok, if not covered here, at least I will have a pointer to another operational document. But wait: By reading this document and the documents it refers to, it should be possible to have all information needed to implement an WebRTC compatible implementation. So is this only about implementation? I like this document very much as it explains all the RTCWEB pieces in one location. However, there is one important piece missing: the network management considerations. See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5706#appendix-A This is where I'm coming from, discussing some more with Warren (this a cut and past from this ballot): [ Edit: So, after more thought (and some discussion) I think that it would be useful for the document to at least note the fact that technologies like this mean that some of the existing operational practices may need to change. For example, many enterprises perform QoS based upon the fact that certain types of devices live in certain subnets (e.g many phones get placed in a specific VLAN using LLDP or CDP). With more real time content coming from browsers, these matching practices break, and so operators may not be able to QoS mark / prioritize traffic accordingly. Perhaps something like: "One of the implications of a solution like WebRTC is that more real-time traffic will be sourced from computers (and not dedicated devices like telephones or videoconferencing devices). This may have implications for operators performing QoS marking and prioritization" ? This isn't really specific to webrtc, but rather to a more general set of solutions like softphones and the like, but is accelerated by WebRTC. ] In light of the previous discussions about draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-11, the operators are used to manage voice, video, gaming a certain way, with their operational current practices. Now, their current practices might not work any longer. What should they do now in term of monitoring, troubleshooting, QoS, SLA monitoring, etc these days with WebRTC? While we should add this note (or a similar one) in the doc, I'm wondering: where are (should be) those operational aspects discussed, if not here? I've seen https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rtcweb-qos-18, not sure it's appropriate. Anyway, it's now in a RFC-editor state. I could have requested a specific manageability doc in the charter. Too late now. |
2017-04-27
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18 | Benoît Claise | [Ballot Position Update] New position, Discuss, has been recorded for Benoit Claise |
2017-04-26
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18 | Suresh Krishnan | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Suresh Krishnan |
2017-04-26
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18 | Spencer Dawkins | [Ballot comment] I've been waiting for this one, for a while. Thanks for finishing it. I'm a Yes, with comments. I agree with EKR that … [Ballot comment] I've been waiting for this one, for a while. Thanks for finishing it. I'm a Yes, with comments. I agree with EKR that there's a lot of general philosophy in this draft. I wouldn't ask that you pull all of it, but perhaps it could be trimmed down a bit. This is a nit, but in this text, Other efforts, for instance the W3C WEBRTC, Web Applications and Device API working groups, focus on making standardized APIs and interfaces available, within or alongside the HTML5 effort, it would be nice to have the names here match what's on the W3C website. So, "Web Real-Time Communication", "Web Application Security", and "Device and Sensors", unless I'm guessing at the mapping wrong. It's also easy to read that text with "Web Applications and Device API" as a single working group, so using a comma after "Web Application Security" would be helpful. The term of art "floor control" is likely to be new to many readers in the future. Since it appears in a list of non-niche examples, maybe you don't need it at all? I'm not sure whether "let a thousand flowers bloom" is a reference to the Hundred Flowers campaign in 1956, but (1) that ended very badly for the bloomers, and (2) I could easily imagine the phrase tripping DPI filtering for a specific part of the Internet community. Maybe there's a better phrase? I'm not sure how tutorial you want section 4 to be, but I'd at least mention appropriate retransmission and in-order delivery, in addition to congestion control, since you get that with SCTP on the data channel. 4. Data transport Data transport refers to the sending and receiving of data over the network interfaces, the choice of network-layer addresses at each end of the communication, and the interaction with any intermediate entities that handle the data, but do not modify it (such as TURN relays). It includes necessary functions for congestion control: When not to send data. Or maybe you can just chop that sentence, because the next paragraph points to https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-transports-06, anyway? I found the reference to MMUSIC WG in 3. When a new codec is specified, and the SDP for the new codec is specified in the MMUSIC WG, no other standardization should be required for it to be possible to use that in the web browsers. to be odd. MMUSIC may be around forever, but this work might be refactored at some point in the future. Is the point that 3. When SDP for a new codec is specified, no other standardization should be required for it to be used in the web browsers. Or is there another way to say this? I'm also wondering if the statement is true for any WebRTC endpoint, not just browsers. In this text, WebRTC endpoints MUST implement the functions described in that document that relate to the network layer (for example Bundle [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation], RTCP-mux [RFC5761] and Trickle ICE [I-D.ietf-ice-trickle]), but do not need to support the API functionality described there. I would have thought these were related to the transport layer. No? |
2017-04-26
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18 | Spencer Dawkins | Ballot comment text updated for Spencer Dawkins |
2017-04-26
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18 | Spencer Dawkins | [Ballot comment] I've been waiting for this one, for a while. Thanks for finishing it. I'm a Yes, with comments. I agree with EKR that … [Ballot comment] I've been waiting for this one, for a while. Thanks for finishing it. I'm a Yes, with comments. I agree with EKR that there's a lot of general philosophy in this draft. I wouldn't ask that you pull all of it, but perhaps it could be trimmed down a bit. This is a nit, but in this text, Other efforts, for instance the W3C WEBRTC, Web Applications and Device API working groups, focus on making standardized APIs and interfaces available, within or alongside the HTML5 effort, it would be nice to have the names here match what's on the W3C website. So, "Web Real-Time Communication", "Web Application Security", and "Device and Sensors", unless I'm guessing at the mapping wrong. It's also easy to read that text with "Web Applications and Device API" as a single working group, so putting a comma after "Applications" would be helpful. The term of art "floor control" is likely to be new to many readers in the future. Since it appears in a list of non-niche examples, maybe you don't need it at all? I'm not sure whether "let a thousand flowers bloom" is a reference to the Hundred Flowers campaign in 1956, but (1) that ended very badly for the bloomers, and (2) I could easily imagine the phrase tripping DPI filtering for a specific part of the Internet community. Maybe there's a better phrase? I'm not sure how tutorial you want section 4 to be, but I'd at least mention appropriate retransmission and in-order delivery, in addition to congestion control, since you get that with SCTP on the data channel. 4. Data transport Data transport refers to the sending and receiving of data over the network interfaces, the choice of network-layer addresses at each end of the communication, and the interaction with any intermediate entities that handle the data, but do not modify it (such as TURN relays). It includes necessary functions for congestion control: When not to send data. Or maybe you can just chop that sentence, because the next paragraph points to https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-transports-06, anyway? I found the reference to MMUSIC WG in 3. When a new codec is specified, and the SDP for the new codec is specified in the MMUSIC WG, no other standardization should be required for it to be possible to use that in the web browsers. to be odd. MMUSIC may be around forever, but this work might be refactored at some point in the future. Is the point that 3. When SDP for a new codec is specified, no other standardization should be required for it to be used in the web browsers. Or is there another way to say this? I'm also wondering if the statement is true for any WebRTC endpoint, not just browsers. In this text, WebRTC endpoints MUST implement the functions described in that document that relate to the network layer (for example Bundle [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation], RTCP-mux [RFC5761] and Trickle ICE [I-D.ietf-ice-trickle]), but do not need to support the API functionality described there. I would have thought these were related to the transport layer. No? |
2017-04-26
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18 | Spencer Dawkins | [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Spencer Dawkins |
2017-04-26
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18 | Alia Atlas | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Alia Atlas |
2017-04-25
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18 | Kathleen Moriarty | [Ballot comment] Thanks for your work on this draft, it's a helpful overview. I see the reasoning in the shepherd report for standards track (although … [Ballot comment] Thanks for your work on this draft, it's a helpful overview. I see the reasoning in the shepherd report for standards track (although it reads more like an informational draft), but am curious if the standards track status is needed for other SDOs that might reference this document? In reading sections 8 & 9, I would think the presentation and control in section 8 would have the privacy implications of the second bullet in section 9. As such, it seems odd that normative language is used in this bullet and not in section 8. I'd be fine with no normative language in either as long as the protocol drafts cover that appropriately. Some mention of privacy in section 8 could be helpful since it covers more ground than the example in section 9. Security considerations: I don't see anything listed for security or privacy considerations in respect to the signaling channel to the web/application server. Should there be considerations listed? Security of the actual server and content on the server as well as vulnerabilities in listening protocols are just a few of the questions that come to mind. If it doesn't matter, please let me know. I appreciate the comment on the browser being target rich as they have been in many attacks to gain entry into networks leveraging established outbound sessions. Maybe this is covered in I-D.ietf-rtcweb-security and if so (have not had a chance to review it yet), a high-level mention of gateway security here might be helpful. I agree with Warren's comment about the management aspects being covered here since it is an overview document. It could be a very helpful consideration for protocol developers that may devise new ways to enable management as a result of understanding the issues. I had to look up jingle and BOSH, you may want to consider adding references to the XMPP specifications. |
2017-04-25
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18 | Kathleen Moriarty | Ballot comment text updated for Kathleen Moriarty |
2017-04-25
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18 | Kathleen Moriarty | [Ballot comment] Thanks for your work on this draft, it's a helpful overview. I see the reasoning in the shepherd report for informational, but am … [Ballot comment] Thanks for your work on this draft, it's a helpful overview. I see the reasoning in the shepherd report for informational, but am curious if the standards track status is needed for other SDOs that might reference this document? In reading sections 8 & 9, I would think the presentation and control in section 8 would have the privacy implications of the second bullet in section 9. As such, it seems odd that normative language is used in this bullet and not in section 8. I'd be fine with no normative language in either as long as the protocol drafts cover that appropriately. Some mention of privacy in section 8 could be helpful since it covers more ground than the example in section 9. Security considerations: I don't see anything listed for security or privacy considerations in respect to the signaling channel to the web/application server. Should there be considerations listed? Security of the actual server and content on the server as well as vulnerabilities in listening protocols are just a few of the questions that come to mind. If it doesn't matter, please let me know. I appreciate the comment on the browser being target rich as they have been in many attacks to gain entry into networks leveraging established outbound sessions. Maybe this is covered in I-D.ietf-rtcweb-security and if so (have not had a chance to review it yet), a high-level mention of gateway security here might be helpful. I agree with Warren's comment about the management aspects being covered here since it is an overview document. It could be a very helpful consideration for protocol developers that may devise new ways to enable management as a result of understanding the issues. I had to look up jingle and BOSH, you may want to consider adding references to the XMPP specifications. |
2017-04-25
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18 | Kathleen Moriarty | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Kathleen Moriarty |
2017-04-25
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18 | Deborah Brungard | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Deborah Brungard |
2017-04-25
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18 | Warren Kumari | [Ballot comment] Thank you -- I like these sort of overview documents for complex things like WebRTC - they provide a newcomer to the technology … [Ballot comment] Thank you -- I like these sort of overview documents for complex things like WebRTC - they provide a newcomer to the technology a good place to start, and help describe some of the reasons why things look the way they do. [ Edit: So, after more thought (and some discussion) I think that it would be useful for the document to at least note the fact that technologies like this mean that some of the existing operational practices may need to change. For example, many enterprises perform QoS based upon the fact that certain types of devices live in certain subnets (e.g many phones get placed in a specific VLAN using LLDP or CDP). With more real time content coming from browsers, these matching practices break, and so operators may not be able to QoS mark / prioritize traffic accordingly. Perhaps something like: "One of the implications of a solution like WebRTC is that more real-time traffic will be sourced from computers (and not dedicated devices like telephones or videoconferencing devices). This may have implications for operators performing QoS marking and prioritization" ? This isn't really specific to webrtc, but rather to a more general set of solutions like softphones and the like, but is accelerated by WebRTC. ] I do have a few comments on the document itself - there are all minor / bikeshedding and can be ignored if you choose: 1: "Development of The Universal Solution has proved hard, however, for all the usual reasons." -- this is cute, but leaves people wondering what "all the usual reasons are". Perhaps just "Development of The Universal Solution has, however, proved hard." (or just cut after the "however in the original"). 2: I'm not sure why you have "Protocol" in the terminology section. It doesn't seem like it is useful for the document, and this document doesn't seem like the right place to (re) define it. 3: Acknowledgements: Funny spacing in "Olle E. Johansson" |
2017-04-25
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18 | Warren Kumari | Ballot comment text updated for Warren Kumari |
2017-04-24
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18 | Ben Campbell | [Ballot comment] I am balloting "yes", but I have a few minor comments: Substantive Comments: -2.2 : -- Why is a WebRTC gateway assumed to … [Ballot comment] I am balloting "yes", but I have a few minor comments: Substantive Comments: -2.2 : -- Why is a WebRTC gateway assumed to be a "compatible" endpoint rather than a full endpoint? I recognize a gateway is different from a typical end-user endpoint, but are there specific endpoint requirements that a gateway is not likely to meet? (Feel free to say "it's documented in the gateway draft...." :-) ) -- "In this case, similar security considerations as for Javascript may be needed; however, since such APIs are not defined or referenced here, this document cannot give any specific rules for those interfaces." I am confused by this sentence, since I don't see any security considerations specific to Javascript in this draft, either. -7 -- list item 2: Is it an open question whether a signaling gateway is needed for interacting with SIP devices? -- Last paragraph: This is specifically about non-browser endpoints, right? As written, it seems to weaken the previous paragraph about browser endpoints, since the draft previously said the term "endpoint" includes both browsers and non-browsers. -9, 2nd bullet: "Privacy concerns MUST be satisfied..." Is that MAY really intended as normative, or is a statement of fact? If normative, what actor(s) does it constrain? Also, if it is normative, the clause "the APIs should be available" seems to weaken the MUST. Editorial Comments: -2.3, last paragraph: The paragraph is a single, convoluted sentence that is hard to parse. (It's also a comma splice). Please consider breaking into multiple simpler sentences. -3, first paragraph: This is also convoluted and hard to parse. -7, list item 1: The citiation to [3264] seems misplaced. It describes the offer/answer model, not SIP in general. I suggest moving the citation to after the word "semantics". |
2017-04-24
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18 | Ben Campbell | [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Ben Campbell |
2017-04-24
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18 | Alvaro Retana | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Alvaro Retana |
2017-04-24
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18 | Mirja Kühlewind | [Ballot comment] One high level comments on normative language: While I think this document is very useful to explain the relationship between the other webrtc … [Ballot comment] One high level comments on normative language: While I think this document is very useful to explain the relationship between the other webrtc documents and serves a a good starting point for an implementor, I'm not sure if the use of normative language is actually helpful. Most of the language is used to say that a webrtc endpoint MUST implement a certain other document. However, I believe this is inherently necessary to achieve interoperability. So I don't see a need to specify this normatively. In regard to the shepherd write-up, I just want to note that using normative language does not automatically make the document Standards Track; there are many informational docs that use normative language. As such, I don't want raise a big discussion on status now, but this document sounds more informational to me (giving pointers to other document). However, I don't object to publication on Standards Track. minor comments: 1) I would not need all the text on the history of Internet communication in this doc (especially all text on page 3 in the intro as well as section 2.3 and the second to last paragraph in 3)... however, I guess it doesn't hurt 2) Agree with Warren that 'Protocol' probably doesn't need to be (re)defined in this doc 3) section 3: "Data transport: TCP, UDP and the means to securely set up connections between entities, as well as the functions for deciding when to send data: Congestion management, bandwidth estimation and so on." This seems to implicitly assume that only TCP or something encapsulated over UDP can be used. Even though that might be true, I assume this was not intentionally, maybe: NEW "Data transport: such as TCP or UDP and the means to securely set up connections between entities, as well as the functions for deciding when to send data: Congestion management, bandwidth estimation and so on." nit: -"massage the signals": not sure if "massage" is actually a meaningful word here… |
2017-04-24
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18 | Mirja Kühlewind | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Mirja Kühlewind |
2017-04-23
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18 | Terry Manderson | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Terry Manderson |
2017-04-23
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18 | Warren Kumari | [Ballot comment] Thank you -- I like these sort of overview documents for complex things like WebRTC - they provide a newcomer to the technology … [Ballot comment] Thank you -- I like these sort of overview documents for complex things like WebRTC - they provide a newcomer to the technology a good place to start, and help describe some of the reasons why things look the way they do. I do have a few comments on the document itself - there are all minor / bikeshedding and can be ignored if you choose: 1: "Development of The Universal Solution has proved hard, however, for all the usual reasons." -- this is cute, but leaves people wondering what "all the usual reasons are". Perhaps just "Development of The Universal Solution has, however, proved hard." (or just cut after the "however in the original"). 2: I'm not sure why you have "Protocol" in the terminology section. It doesn't seem like it is useful for the document, and this document doesn't seem like the right place to (re) define it. 3: Acknowledgements: Funny spacing in "Olle E. Johansson" |
2017-04-23
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18 | Warren Kumari | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Warren Kumari |
2017-04-22
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18 | Eric Rescorla | [Ballot discuss] Your citation to ICE is to 5245-bis, but at least the JSEP editor consensus was that WebRTC depended on 5245, so this needs … [Ballot discuss] Your citation to ICE is to 5245-bis, but at least the JSEP editor consensus was that WebRTC depended on 5245, so this needs to be resolved one way or the other. |
2017-04-22
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18 | Eric Rescorla | [Ballot comment] This document seems rather long on philosophy (justifying MTI, the freed to innovate material in S 4.) I would remove all this. S … [Ballot comment] This document seems rather long on philosophy (justifying MTI, the freed to innovate material in S 4.) I would remove all this. S 2.4. Why do you have two terminology sections? I would merge them. S 3. The diagrams here seem to assume a federation model that I generally don't see used with WebRTC. So, for instance, the on-the-wire protocols arrow on page 9. Who does that? This also applies to "a commonly imagined model" I would say HTTP(S) in this diagram. You should probably list DTLS, SCTP, and SDP in this section. It's not like we haven't decided we need them. "The functionality groups that are needed in the browser can be specified, more or less from the bottom up, as: ... Connection management: ... SIP and Jingle/XMPP belong in this category." As far as I know, nothing in this layer is specified in WebRTC or implemented in the browser, so this doesn't seem to make sense. |
2017-04-22
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18 | Eric Rescorla | [Ballot Position Update] New position, Discuss, has been recorded for Eric Rescorla |
2017-04-21
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18 | Adam Roach | IESG state changed to IESG Evaluation from Waiting for AD Go-Ahead |
2017-04-21
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18 | Adam Roach | [Ballot comment] The GENART review contains a number of editorial nits to be addressed. |
2017-04-21
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18 | Adam Roach | Ballot comment text updated for Adam Roach |
2017-04-20
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18 | Alexey Melnikov | [Ballot comment] Last time I checked the document is referencing normatively 2 expired drafts (security considerations and security architecture). What is the plan for completing … [Ballot comment] Last time I checked the document is referencing normatively 2 expired drafts (security considerations and security architecture). What is the plan for completing them? |
2017-04-20
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18 | Alexey Melnikov | Ballot comment text updated for Alexey Melnikov |
2017-04-20
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18 | Alexey Melnikov | [Ballot comment] Last time I checked the document is referencing normatively 2 expired drafts (security considerations and security architecture). What is the plan to complete … [Ballot comment] Last time I checked the document is referencing normatively 2 expired drafts (security considerations and security architecture). What is the plan to complete them? |
2017-04-20
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18 | Alexey Melnikov | [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Alexey Melnikov |
2017-04-20
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18 | Adam Roach | IESG state changed to Waiting for AD Go-Ahead from Waiting for Writeup |
2017-04-20
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18 | Adam Roach | Ballot approval text was changed |
2017-04-20
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18 | Adam Roach | Ballot has been issued |
2017-04-20
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18 | Adam Roach | [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Adam Roach |
2017-04-20
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18 | Adam Roach | Created "Approve" ballot |
2017-04-20
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18 | Adam Roach | Ballot writeup was changed |
2017-04-10
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18 | Adam Roach | Telechat date has been changed to 2017-04-27 from 2017-04-13 |
2017-03-29
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18 | Cindy Morgan | Shepherding AD changed to Adam Roach |
2017-03-22
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18 | Jean Mahoney | Request for Last Call review by GENART Completed: Ready with Nits. Reviewer: Meral Shirazipour. |
2017-03-20
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18 | (System) | IESG state changed to Waiting for Writeup from In Last Call |
2017-03-17
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18 | Jon Mitchell | Request for Telechat review by OPSDIR Completed: Ready. Reviewer: Jon Mitchell. Sent review to list. |
2017-03-15
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18 | Tero Kivinen | Request for Telechat review by SECDIR Completed: Ready. Reviewer: Dan Harkins. |
2017-03-10
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18 | (System) | IANA Review state changed to IANA OK - No Actions Needed from IANA - Review Needed |
2017-03-10
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18 | Sabrina Tanamal | (Via drafts-lastcall@iana.org): IESG/Authors/WG Chairs: The IANA Services Operator has reviewed draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-18.txt, which is currently in Last Call, and has the following comments: We … (Via drafts-lastcall@iana.org): IESG/Authors/WG Chairs: The IANA Services Operator has reviewed draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-18.txt, which is currently in Last Call, and has the following comments: We understand that this document doesn't require any registry actions. While it's often helpful for a document's IANA Considerations section to remain in place upon publication even if there are no actions, if the authors strongly prefer to remove it, we do not object. If this assessment is not accurate, please respond as soon as possible. Thank you, Sabrina Tanamal IANA Services Specialist PTI |
2017-03-09
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18 | Jean Mahoney | Request for Last Call review by GENART is assigned to Meral Shirazipour |
2017-03-09
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18 | Jean Mahoney | Request for Last Call review by GENART is assigned to Meral Shirazipour |
2017-03-07
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18 | Alissa Cooper | Telechat date has been changed to 2017-04-13 from 2017-03-16 |
2017-03-06
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18 | Cindy Morgan | IANA Review state changed to IANA - Review Needed |
2017-03-06
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18 | Cindy Morgan | The following Last Call announcement was sent out: From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce CC: rtcweb-chairs@ietf.org, Sean Turner , alissa@cooperw.in, rtcweb@ietf.org, draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview@ietf.org, … The following Last Call announcement was sent out: From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce CC: rtcweb-chairs@ietf.org, Sean Turner , alissa@cooperw.in, rtcweb@ietf.org, draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview@ietf.org, sean@sn3rd.com Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org Sender: Subject: Last Call: (Overview: Real Time Protocols for Browser-based Applications) to Proposed Standard The IESG has received a request from the Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers WG (rtcweb) to consider the following document: - 'Overview: Real Time Protocols for Browser-based Applications' as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-03-20. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document gives an overview and context of a protocol suite intended for use with real-time applications that can be deployed in browsers - "real time communication on the Web". It intends to serve as a starting and coordination point to make sure all the parts that are needed to achieve this goal are findable, and that the parts that belong in the Internet protocol suite are fully specified and on the right publication track. This document is an Applicability Statement - it does not itself specify any protocol, but specifies which other specifications WebRTC compliant implementations are supposed to follow. This document is a work item of the RTCWEB working group. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: draft-ietf-rtcweb-jsep: Javascript Session Establishment Protocol (None - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry. |
2017-03-06
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18 | Cindy Morgan | IESG state changed to In Last Call from Last Call Requested |
2017-03-06
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18 | Cindy Morgan | Last call announcement was generated |
2017-03-03
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18 | Alissa Cooper | Last call was requested |
2017-03-03
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18 | Alissa Cooper | Ballot approval text was generated |
2017-03-03
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18 | Alissa Cooper | Ballot writeup was generated |
2017-03-03
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18 | Alissa Cooper | IESG state changed to Last Call Requested from AD Evaluation::External Party |
2017-03-03
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18 | Alissa Cooper | Last call announcement was generated |
2017-03-03
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18 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-18.txt |
2017-03-03
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18 | (System) | New version approved |
2017-03-03
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18 | (System) | Request for posting confirmation emailed to previous authors: rtcweb-chairs@ietf.org, Harald Alvestrand |
2017-03-03
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18 | Harald Alvestrand | Uploaded new revision |
2017-02-27
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17 | Gunter Van de Velde | Request for Telechat review by OPSDIR is assigned to Jon Mitchell |
2017-02-27
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17 | Gunter Van de Velde | Request for Telechat review by OPSDIR is assigned to Jon Mitchell |
2017-02-23
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17 | Tero Kivinen | Request for Telechat review by SECDIR is assigned to Dan Harkins |
2017-02-23
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17 | Tero Kivinen | Request for Telechat review by SECDIR is assigned to Dan Harkins |
2017-02-22
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17 | Alissa Cooper | Waiting for revs of security documents to be published before proceeding to IETF LC. |
2017-02-22
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17 | Alissa Cooper | IESG state changed to AD Evaluation::External Party from Publication Requested |
2017-02-22
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17 | Alissa Cooper | Placed on agenda for telechat - 2017-03-16 |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | (1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper type of RFC? … (1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header? Proposed Standards is the current request. The WG believes this is the appropriate type of RFC because of the 2119 implementation requirements such as MUST implement rtcweb-transports, REQUIRED support for SRTP, etc. There are not a lot of them, but enough to warrant PS. Also note that it's been proposed as PS since Harald's initial personal submission in '11 so there has certainly been plenty of time for those that thought this was targeted at the wrong "type" to point this out to the WG. (2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up. Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval announcement contains the following sections: Technical Summary As its name implies, this document provides and overview and context for a protocol suite that enables real-time applications that can be deployed in browsers - "real time communication on the Web". This document is an Applicability Statement - it does not itself specify any protocol, but specifies which other specifications WebRTC compliant implementations are supposed to follow. Working Group Summary Nothing special to note other than the chairs waffling on whether it was better to send an overview document to the IESG before all of the protocol specifications were completed or after. We decided that we would get dinged either way and that we should press ahead with this draft whenever it was ready in order to save time because, in the end, we do not want to waste time spinning up a new responsible AD. Document Quality There are existing implementations of the RTCweb/WebRTC. There are no reviews that merit special mention. Personnel Sean Turner is the Shepherd. Alissa Cooper is the responsible AD. (3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG. I reviewed this draft as it progressed as well as compared the comments received during WGLC to ensure they were addresses appropriately. I did note two editorial things in my Shepherd review that need to be addressed before final publication and noted them with PRs: - https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/rtcweb-overview/pull/11 - https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/rtcweb-overview/pull/10 (4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of the reviews that have been performed? No. (5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place. No. (6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here. I fully expect this document to be held hostage in RFC editor cluster #238 until the normative dependencies catch up. (7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have already been filed. If not, explain why. Hararld confirmed on 2/21 that his BCP 78/79 obligations as an author have been met. (8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so, summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures. None have been filed. (9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the WG as a whole understand and agree with it? It's solid. (10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this questionnaire is publicly available.) No threats of appeal or otherwise. (11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document. (See https://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist). Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough. -17 needs the 2119 boiler plate and there's a couple of outdated references. These can be incorporated later in the process. (12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews. N/A. (13) Have all references within this document been identified as either normative or informative? Yes. (14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references exist, what is the plan for their completion? Yes - they'll all end up in cluster #238 eventually. (15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so, list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call procedure. No DOWNREFs. (16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary. No other RFC's status will be harmed as a result of this document. (17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see RFC 5226). There are no IANA considerations so the review was pretty easy ;) (18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries. N/A (19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc. N/A |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | Responsible AD changed to Alissa Cooper |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | IETF WG state changed to Submitted to IESG for Publication from WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | IESG state changed to Publication Requested |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | IESG process started in state Publication Requested |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | Changed document writeup |
2017-02-22
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17 | Sean Turner | IETF WG state changed to WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up from Waiting for WG Chair Go-Ahead |
2017-02-21
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17 | Sean Turner | Changed document writeup |
2017-02-21
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17 | Sean Turner | Changed document writeup |
2017-02-21
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17 | Sean Turner | IETF WG state changed to Waiting for WG Chair Go-Ahead from In WG Last Call |
2017-02-17
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17 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-17.txt |
2017-02-17
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17 | (System) | New version approved |
2017-02-17
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17 | (System) | Request for posting confirmation emailed to previous authors: "Harald Alvestrand" , rtcweb-chairs@ietf.org |
2017-02-17
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17 | Harald Alvestrand | Uploaded new revision |
2017-02-02
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16 | Sean Turner | Notification list changed to "Sean Turner" <sean@sn3rd.com> |
2017-02-02
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16 | Sean Turner | Document shepherd changed to Sean Turner |
2016-11-22
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16 | Sean Turner | Changed consensus to Yes from Unknown |
2016-11-22
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16 | Sean Turner | Intended Status changed to Proposed Standard from None |
2016-11-22
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16 | Sean Turner | WGLC ends 20161209. |
2016-11-22
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16 | Sean Turner | IETF WG state changed to In WG Last Call from WG Document |
2016-11-13
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16 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-16.txt |
2016-11-13
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16 | (System) | New version approved |
2016-11-13
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16 | (System) | Request for posting confirmation emailed to previous authors: "Harald Alvestrand" , rtcweb-chairs@ietf.org |
2016-11-13
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16 | Harald Alvestrand | Uploaded new revision |
2016-01-21
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15 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-15.txt |
2015-07-20
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14 | Alissa Cooper | IETF WG state changed to WG Document from In WG Last Call |
2015-06-16
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14 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-14.txt |
2014-11-28
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13 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-13.txt |
2014-10-13
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12 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-12.txt |
2014-08-18
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11 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-11.txt |
2014-07-02
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10 | Cullen Jennings | Document shepherd changed to (None) |
2014-06-17
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10 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-10.txt |
2014-02-14
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09 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-09.txt |
2014-01-10
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08 | Magnus Westerlund | Document shepherd changed to Cullen Jennings |
2013-09-03
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08 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-08.txt |
2013-08-14
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07 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-07.txt |
2013-02-20
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06 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-06.txt |
2013-01-28
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05 | Magnus Westerlund | IETF state changed to In WG Last Call from WG Document |
2012-12-14
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05 | Magnus Westerlund | In WG last call until the 1st of Feb |
2012-12-14
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05 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-05.txt |
2012-06-20
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04 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-04.txt |
2012-03-12
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03 | Harald Alvestrand | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-03.txt |
2011-09-28
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02 | (System) | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-02.txt |
2011-08-24
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01 | (System) | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-01.txt |
2011-07-01
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00 | (System) | New version available: draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-00.txt |