Internet2 SIP.edu Working Group
D R A F T Charter - 12/13/04
Internet2 Area: Middleware
Chair: Dennis Baron, MIT
Area Director: Ken Klingenstein
Scribe: Jeff Kuure
Flywheel: Ben Teitelbaum
Web Site: http://voip.internet2.edu/SIP.edu/
Description
The SIP.edu working group seeks to encourage experimentation with new
campus real time communications services that use the Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) and its related protocols. The goals of the
working group are to:
- Build a large base of SIP-reachable Internet2 users by making
existing campus PBX, Centrex, and VoIP systems reachable via SIP
- Facilitate the convergence of communications identities by
promoting the use of email addresses for voice and multimedia
communications
- Lower the barriers and reduce timelines for campus SIP voice
deployments by:
- Publishing and maintaining a "cookbook" for deploying SIP infrastructure
- Working with Internet2 corporate members and other suppliers to
obtain special pricing for SIP hardware, software, and services
- Building a knowledge base within the Internet2 community to assist
others in deploying SIP infrastructure
Promote the use SIP for additional media types, including
presence, video, and instant messaging
- Foster experimentation with new SIP-based applications and
services
- Explore ways in which SIP services can be used by faculty,
students, and staff to enhance university activities
- Develop best practices for scaling and securing campus SIP
deployments
- Collaborate with vendors and standards groups to help evolve SIP
products and standards
Milestones
- Completed
- Complete proof-of-concept deployment(s)
- Publish SIP.edu whitepaper
- Release first edition of SIP.edu cookbook
- Held first SIP.edu implementors workshop
- Implemented SIP.edu at nine universities, representing more than
140,000 reachable users
- Built corporate partnerships with Cisco Systems, Avaya, and
Pulver.com
- Future
- Deploy SIP.edu throughout the Internet2 community
- Work with vendors to develop packaged SIP.edu solutions
- Publish best practices whitepaper on SIP and campus directory
integration
- Develop and trial an approach to SPIT (spam over Internet
telephony) prevention
- Explore peering relationship and partnerships with communications
service providers to grow connectivity and use