The third in a series of conference calls to discuss a reliable transport protocol to be used with MoIP was held on Friday, June 22, 2001, between representatives of The CommWorks Corp. and Cisco Systems.

As agreed at the Porto Seguro, BR, meeting of ITU-T SG16, the goal of these conference calls is to develop a joint contribution to the next meeting of TR-30.1 giving requirements for the MoIP reliable transport mechanism, and possibly an evaluation of existing protocols against those requirements. It is understood that there is a desire, once the requirements and possible evaluations have been presented to TIA TR-30.1 and agreed to by them, to have the requirements and possible evaluations presented to the IETF 51 meeting in London, UK, during the week of 8/5/2001. It is also understood that some parties plan to present a draft protocol proposal to that meeting.

On the call from The CommWorks Corp. were: - Jim Renkel.

From Cisco Systems were:

- Herb Wildfeuer; and - Mehryar Garakani.

The call began by discussing the proposed summary of the first conference call. Cisco asked that the following sentence be added at the end of the 4th paragraph (Which begins "The call began by discussing ...."): It is also understood that some parties plan to present a draft protocol proposal to that meeting. With that addition, the meeting summary was agreed to and approved. After making that addition, Jim will send the meeting summary to relevant e-mail reflectors.

Next, the proposed summary of the second conference call was reveiwed and approved as proposed. Jim will also send that summary to relevant e-mail reflectors.

Next, the CommWorks proposed language for media stream / protocol stack switching was discussed. The definitions and first proposed agreement were tentatively accepted as proposed. There was much discussion of the second proposed agreement, and Jim will redraft it. Also, these proposals will be copied into a Word document so that changes can be tracked.

Next, the meeting returned to Table 1 of CommWork's PCM01-020 contribution to the Nice, FR, rapporteur's meeting. It was agreed to split the "reliable" characteristic into "error detection" and "error correction" requirements. It was also agreed that "non-erasing" and "non-duplicating" were requirements for the reliable transport protocol to be used with MoIP. Jim will draft language stating these requirements.

Finally, the next conference call was scheduled for Tuesday, 6/26/2001, 10:30 A.M., CDT, 8:30 A.M. PDT, with the same arrangements as this conference call.

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