Speaking of Standards

The Real-Time Communications in WEB-browser (RTCWEB) Working Group within the IETF will be holding an “interim meeting” on:

Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Time: 16:30-20:30 CEST
10:30-14:30 US Eastern time
7.30-11.30 US Pacific time

To discuss plans related to advancing the work outlined in the group’s charter. I’ve mentioned the “RTCWEB” initiative in the past and definitely believe it is both valuable and necessary. Although that same day is World IPv6 Day and I expect to be engaged in IPv6 promotion activities, I do plan to dial in to this interim meeting to listen and participate.

If you’d like to join in, the best bet is to subscribe to the IETF rtcweb mailing list as the agenda and attendance information will be circulated on that list.

While at SIPNOC 2011 last week in Herndon, VA, I shot a good number of photos of the presenters and attendees. I’ve uploaded some of the better shots to our Flickr account and you can view the SIPNOC set there:

I tried to capture most all of the presenters there. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license which essentially means that you are welcome to use them as long as you link back to the photo (if online) or provide an attribution link in written material.

If you are in any of the photos and want a higher resolution version for your own usage, please just email me and can get one to you.

For photography geeks, almost all of the photos were taken with my Nikon D90. A few were taken with my iPhone 4. Most were not altered but a few had the “Enhance” edit done in iPhoto.

Are you attending SIPNOC next week in Herndon, Virginia? If so, are you interested in talking with others about real-time communication over IPv6?

SIPNOC organizer Marc Robins spread the word today that a number of BOFs (“Birds-Of-a-Feather” sessions… loose, informal gatherings) would be held at SIPNOC, including a 2-part BOF on “IPv6 Readiness“. Time has been allocated on the agenda for the IPv6 BOF on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at:

3:00-3:45pm

5:45-6:30pm

In both cases the IPv6 BOF will meet in the “Luray E” room.

I’ll be there at SIPNOC speaking about lessons we’ve learned at Voxeo in large-scale SIP interoperability and also on the topic of SIP security. Naturally, you can expect that I’ll be at both of these IPv6 sessions, too!

Today the folks organizing the Canadian IPv6 Summit (mentioned previously on this blog) on Friday, April 29, 2011, in Ottawa, announced the tentative schedule at:

http://ipv6summit.ca/index.php/v6/2011/schedConf/schedule

and the list of presenters and their abstracts at:

http://ipv6summit.ca/index.php/v6/2011/schedConf/presentations

It looks like a great agenda with a good mixture of business and technical sessions. Sadly, I won’t personally be able to attend, but it looks to be a great session for those interested in learning more about IPv6 in general – and how to make the move to IPv6.

Kudos to the IPv6summit.ca team and I wish them all the best for their event!

As I mentioned before, this year the SIP Forum is holding its first ever SIPNOC: The SIP Network Operators Conference event on April 25-27 in Herndon, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. The abstract of the event is:

SIPNOC is a unique event for service providers and carriers to gather to discuss the challenges of deploying and implementing SIP-based communications technology, and to learn the best-practices and strategies that enable the successful and profitable operation of SIP-based services and applications. SIPNOC is not a sales event, a marketing event, nor an event for corporate positioning.

The tentative schedule is now out and as I note over on our page for the event, I’ll be speaking twice at the event. In one panel I’ll be wearing my VOIP Security Alliance hat and talking about communications security. In the other session I’ll be speaking about some of the lessons we’ve learned at Voxeo in building the large-scale, global carrier-grade SIP infrastructure we operate.

It should be a fun event and I’m very much looking forward to being down there in DC with the SIP Forum crowd! If you can join us there, it should be a great event for anyone operating a network using the SIP protocol.

Live in Canada and interested in IPv6? Or just interested in IPv6 and want to take a trip to a gorgeous city to learn more about IPv6?

Friends up in Ottawa have been contacting me to let me know all about the 2011 IPv6 Summit.ca taking place on April 29, 2011, at the University of Ottawa.

The summit overview sounds great and knowing some of the folks involved I expect it should be an outstanding event.

The Call For Papers is still open until March 31st, so if you are interested in speaking, there is still time to apply.

To stay up on news about the event, you can:

• follow ipv6summitca on Twitter
• like the IPv6 Summit.ca Facebook Page
• follow ipv6summitca on Identi.ca

Sadly, with my current schedule, I won’t be able to get up there to the city where I lived for five years…. but I’ll be looking forward to hearing about what is discussed there.

Would you like to learn all you can about the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and how it can be used for real-time communications? If so – and if you will be attending the Enterprise Connect event this coming week in Orlando, Florida – you can stop by the 3-hour tutorial I (Dan York) will be doing on the afternoon of February 28, 2011. As our events page outlines, the session description is:

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) has become the dominant protocol for IP communications. This workshop explains SIP —how it works, the major issues impacting deployments and how SIP will evolve in the future. There will be a major focus on SIP interoperability.

The session focuses on the technical aspects of SIP and how it is used. It analyzes in detail the major components of SIP architecture, SIP addressing and registration, session establishment, SIP message routing and connecting SIP across the PSTN. You will learn about SIP extensions and how SIMPLE works for IM/presence. The workshop also examines some of the challenges SIP faces, including NAT traversal (and the tools developed to cope with it: STUN, TURN and ICE) and security. The tutorial concludes with an assessment of how SIP may evolve and its role in peer-to-peer environments. You will receive an inventory of SIP resources—books, papers and organizations.

This tutorial was a great amount of fun to do last year (when the event was called VoiceCon) and I’m looking forward to teaching the session again this year.

If you are there at Enterprise Connect, please do come on by and learn about SIP!

Will you be out at IETF 79 in Beijing, China, next week? (November 7-12, 2010) If so, Voxeo’s Dan Burnett will be there participating in many of the sessions in the Realtime Applications and Infrastructure (RAI) area. If you want to connect with him, you can drop him an email or find him in one of the RAI sessions.

Given the large time difference and the fact that the sessions will be taking place while I am normally asleep, this is one IETF session that I somehow don’t see me participating in remotely! I look forward, though, to catching up on what occurs through the mailing lists and from hearing about the sessions from Dan B.

The 78th meeting of the IETF is coming up July 25-30 in Maastricht, Netherlands. Registration is open. As was the case for IETF 77, there is also a day pass option available for people who just want to attend for the day.

It does not look like my schedule will allow me (Dan York) to participate directly in IETF 78… it’s the week right before SpeechTEK New York and for us at Voxeo SpeechTEK is really the largest show we participate in… and so I expect I and my team will be quite busy that week. Schedule permitting, I’m hoping to at least catch a few of the sessions remotely.

Do you create hardware or software that uses the SIP protocol? If so, what are you doing the week of May 17-21, 2010? Over in Stockholm, Sweden, many vendors will be gathering for the SIPit 26 interoperability testing event – and registration is still open if you are interested in attending. I’ve written in the past about SIPit events and even recorded a video interview last fall about why SIP interop matters. These events are important… and if you develop SIP-related software, I strongly encourage you to attend.

This SIPit26 event is, as always, organized by the SIP Forum and hosted by Edvina in cooperation with Tandberg, Intertex, Ingate and .se! More info can be found at the SIPit 26 site at:

http://sipit.edvina.se/

Courtesy of organizer Olle Johansson, this SIPit 26 event can also be found on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Olle, coming out of the Asterisk community, also wrote up a great post on “why SIP testing is important to Asterisk and to you“… the reasons he lays out are the same for really any of us working with SIP-related products and services.

This particular SIPit 26 event will have an additional aspect to it… the SIP Forum has partnered with the IPv6 Forum to promote testing of SIP over IPv6. Actually, the partnership is larger than that… but a specific outcome is that part of the drive of SIPit 26 will be to test how well SIP implementations work over IPv6. All good stuff… and help move along real-time communication over the Internet.

If you do have a SIP-based product or service, check out SIPit 26 and get there if you can… it’s a great opportunity to test your products and see how they work with other SIP-based products and services.