conference control manipulation protocol (ccmp) draft-ietf-xcon-ccmp-01.txt

Conference Control Manipulation Protocol

(CCMP)draft-ietf-xcon-ccmp-01.txt

Authors: Mary Barnes (mary.barnes@nortel.com) Chris Boulton (cboulton@avaya.com)

Simon Pietro Romano (spromano@unina.it) Henning Schulzrinne (hgs+xcon@cs.columbia.edu)

XCON WGIETF-73 Meeting

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday November 20, 2008

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A brief reminder of the most recent history of the CCMP

Changes since -00 version

Overview of Protocol & Implementation

Issue Discussion

Way Forward

Comments/Questions

Agenda

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-00 version of the draft (@ Dublin 72):— Baseline protocol specification based on agreement for semantic

approach:– CCMP was based on Web Services and SOAP– CCMP made use of discrete methods and operations

Prototype implementation available from University of Napoli:— Used as a proof-of-concept both for protocol specification and for its

actual exploitation in real-world conferencing scenarios

— Demo at IETF 72

Recent CCMP history

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The REST breakthrough…

At IETF 72, folks started to advertise a “brand-new” () protocol:— Let’s all go to REST!

REpresentational State Transfer:

CRUD approach:

Create (e.g. HTTP POST)

Read (e.g. HTTP GET)

Update (e.g. HTTP PUT)

Delete (e.g. HTTP DELETE)

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…so now

CCMP is no more based on SOAP/WS— …we believe the CCMP perfectly fits the REST approach!

Version -01 proposes to adopt REST— Even though the protocol specification is kept independent of the

chosen transport protocol

Resources are associated with URIs

Provides means to:— Access information:

– Active/scheduled conferences– Blueprints– Conference users

— Manipulate Conference Objects– Creation, updating, deletion

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CCMP-managed Resources

Conference Object:— compliant with the XCON data model— uniquely addressable through an XCON URI

Blueprints:— same as conference objects…

Users:— a set of <user> elements— part of a conference object, currently not directly addressable ()

User:— a single <user> element— can exist independently of a Conference Object— directly addressable through the XCON-USERID

– Must be a valid URI with the RESTful approach!

CCMP Protocol overview & implementation

Implementation Based on work of Implementation Based on work of Simon Pietro Romano, et al Simon Pietro Romano, et al

(University of Napoli)(University of Napoli)

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XCON System Decomposition

Logical XCON Server

Floor ControlClient

CONFERENCE BLUEPRINT:•Pre-configured•Initial/Default values

Conf EventNotification Server

Focus

Conference &Media Control

Client

CCMPServer

CallSignaling

Client

ACTIVE Conference:•Of TYPE CONFERENCE-INFO

NotificationClient

FloorControl Server

SIP/PSTN/H.323T.120/Etc.

CCMPSIP NOTIFY/Etc. BFCP

CONFERENCERESERVATION:•Of TYPE CONFERENCE-INFO

Logical XCON Client

ACTIVE Conference:•Of TYPE CONFERENCE-INFO

CONFERENCERESERVATION:•Of TYPE CONFERENCE-INFOCONFERENCE BLUEPRINT:

•Pre-configured•Initial/Default values

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Basic Data Objects

INSTANCE ACTIVE CONFERENCE (Type Conference-Info)

Conference-Information Type

Conference-description

conf-URIs, service-URIs, max-user-count, available-media

conference-state

sidebars-by-ref, sidebars-by-val

Conference Definition, Creation, Lifetime CONFERENCE BLUEPRINT

(Type Conference-Info) • Pre-configured

• Initial/Default values

RESERVATION (Type Conference-Info )

floor-information

Users: allowed-users-list, user, roles…

media-type, mixer-type

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CCMP in action: the meetecho* client

Send a confsRequest (with a “retrieve”

operation) message to the conf server

*http://www.meetecho.com

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“confsRequest” answer from server…

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Creating a new conference via blueprints

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“blueprintsRequest” answer from server

Send a blueprintRequest to

the conf server

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“blueprintResponse” and creation through blueprint cloning

blueprintResponse Prepare new conf object from blueprint

Send confRequest/create to the conf server…

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“confRequest” creation and joining…

Note well: no floor is currently available. Need to use BFCP

for that…

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Active conferences (through notifications…)

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BFCP in action:Setting the chair:

Asking for a floor:

Taking decisions:

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Enjoying a conference (1/2)

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Enjoying a conference (2/2)

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Solved issues since IETF 72XSD for Data Model:

— The data model draft has been updated with xsd schema:

– Appendix B. Non-Normative W3C XML Schema

—Thanks to the authors for that!

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Open issues as per IETF 72 (1/5)

Additional data required in data model:— Data element(s) for parent and child information supporting key

framework concepts:– Cloning– Manipulating conference data:

– for a “non-independent” child, changes to the parent impact the child

– ‘ConfObjId’ element in a ‘create’ request signifies a parental conference object

Proposal: Update data model for this element(s) Clarify text in document

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Open issues as per IETF 72 (2/5)

Currently, only discrete element within <conference-info> element for which we’ve defined a request/response type is the <users> element— Should we define additional methods/messages such as allowed-users-

list, deny-users-list, join-handling, etc.?

— If so, which (or all)?

Proposal: — add those that facilitate use cases/call

flows

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Open issues as per IETF 72 (3/5)

The (new version of the) protocol works fine..

..but work is still needed in order to:—complete its specification;

—add table to show which headers apply to which messages, in terms of mandatory versus optional, etc.;

—work call flows in parallel to validate protocol and to provide input to prototype.

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Open issues as per IETF 72 (4/5)

Define a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) system to manage access policies to the system:

—Which users can access/modify/create objects in the system?

—Which fields of a conferencing object should be made available to which users?

Can XACML do the job?

Can the RBAC system be realized as a 100% independent component of the overall framework?

Proposal:—work on RBAC system in parallel with prototype bring details

back to XCON

—Define policies and roles in a companion document

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Open issues as per IETF 72 (5/5)

We need to manage notifications!

Options:— stick to SIP notification— HTTP "call back”

– the CCMP client provides the conference server with an HTTP URL which is invoked when a change occurs

— both of the above models appropriately combined?– PC-based clients behind NATs provide a SIP event URI– web servers would probably find the HTTP model much easier to program with

— BOSH (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html)?– "...a transport protocol that emulates a bidirectional stream between two entities

(such as a client and a server) by efficiently using multiple synchronous HTTP request/response pairs without requiring the use of polling or asynchronous chunking.“

– Also discussed at the BLISS meeting…— XMPP (à la CONFIANCE in its distributed version)— Plain sockets (with asynchronous notifications...)— …more?

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Way Forward

Move forward based on Issue resolution

Continue evolving protocol and prototype

Solicit additional feedback from WG and potential developer community

Please...READ THE DOCUMENT AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK!!

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ANY COMMENTS/Questions?