H.GCP Audio Call minutes

[Bryan Hill]

Colleagues,

The H.GCP audio call was held Thursday March 4th , 18 ports called in
including a group from the TIPHON meeting.  Companies represented were ATT,
Lucent, ACGS, RadVision, Cisco, Nortel, Delta Information Systems, NetSpeak,
Bellcore and others. . .
The meeting opened by reviewing a proposed working model and fleshing out
the work items that need to be addressed.   A number of individuals
committed to fleshing some of the work items prior to the next call, I would
like to thank these individuals in advance.  There was some news from TIPHON
regarding changes to the reference model and some adjustments to the
requirements they have contributed to H.GCP.  These changes will be
reflected once TDs from the Philadelphia meeting are released.  The last
hour or so was focussed on reviewing the H.GCP requirements I sent around
prior to the meeting.
The next call is tentatively planned for Thursday March 18 at 10AM EST.

The working model
Individuals will be working up submissions to be reviewed by the entire
group at the next audio call.  The objective is that the principals involved
will collaborate off line initially, post the results to the SG16 reflector
for comments and a final version will be posted for discussion in an audio
call.   The result of that final review will be added into the H.GCP by the
editor.  Every effort will be made to resolve issues in this forum but if
issues remain they will be logged and discussed in Santiago

Work items
T


he following work items were identified and individuals who expressed an
interest in working on them are noted.
Control Model                   Tom Taylor
Connection Model                Rex Coldren, Hong Liu, Nortel rep
Command related issues  Chip Sharp
Resource Management     Paul Sijben

Other work items
Messages (i.e.-command packaging)
Message Encoding
Scripting/Packages
Interface C protocol (Q.931/Q.764)
Interface B protocol (Q.931 )



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Bryan Hill [SMTP:bhill at VIDEOSERVER.COM]
        Sent:   Monday, March 01, 1999 2:37 PM
        To:     ITU-SG16 at mailbag.cps.intel.com
        Subject:        H.GCP Audio Call

        Colleagues,

        I would like to invite you to participate in audio call on Thursday
March
        4th from 11AM until 1PM EST to discuss H.GCP.  The call details are
as
        follows:

        Calls from outside the US:  312-470-7273
        Calls from within the US: 888-847-7598
        Passcode: BryanHill
        Confirmation number: 5193957

        Please respond to me directly to reserve a port for this call (where
ever
        possible please try to minimize port requirements by sharing a port
with a
        colleague).

        The main purpose of this initial call will be to review requirements
and
        terminology for H.GCP which were discussed in Monterey.  I have been
editing
        these sections and will make them available on the ptel SG16 ftp
site no
        later than tomorrow 3/2.  The second purpose of the call is to
identify
        other areas that need to be discussed in subsequent audio calls.  An
initial
        pass of topics is listed below.  I would like to solicit volunteers
to
        submit written contribution in each of the areas identified and use
these
        submissions as a basis for discussing topics in future audio calls.
In this
        manner I hope to scope our discussion to specific technical topics
and
        combine the benefits from MDCP and MGCP approaches into H.GCP.


        1)      Control model
                a)      Controller to gateway associations
                b)      Controller to internal gateway entity associations
                c)      Failover
                d)      Security
        2)      Connection model
                a)      Controllable entities
                b)      Controllable entity properties
        3)      Commands
        a)      Types
        b)      Parameters
                c)      Acknowledgement styles/sequencing
        4)      Messages (i.e.-command packaging)
        5)      Message Encoding
        6)      Resource management
        7)      Scripting/Packages
        8)      Interface C protocol (Q.931/Q.764)
        9)      Interface B protocol (Q.931 )


        Best Regards,
        Bryan
        _________________________________________________________
        Bryan Hill
        VideoServer Inc.
        (781) 505-2159
          <mailto:bhill at videoserver.com>