Minutes of Peer-to-peer SIP ad-hoc meeting at IETF 63
Organized by the SIPPING WG

Minutes edited by Gonzalo Camarillo
Based on notes by Cullen Jennings
Meeting chaired by Henning Schulzrinne
Slides presented included in the proceedings

THURSDAY, August 4, 2005, 0900-1000

There were around 125 attendees. The goal of this ad-hoc meeting was
to discuss developing scenarios where p2p technologies may be
used. These scenarios include:

1. Distributed Location Server: Use a distributed P2P system to
   distribute the register/location server information
2. Configuration Storage: Store configuration details for a phone
across the networks
3. Voice Mail: 
4. Address Book Storage
5. Reputation Systems
6. Gateway
7. Media Relay 
8. Media Anonymization

People showed interest in working on the following topics:

1. Scale: Both scaling up and down 
2. Reliability
3. Federations
4. Trust Models
5. Identity
6. Namespaces
7. Data Storage 

All the systems described had somewhat common approaches in that they
were using DHTs as the underlying approach. Attention should be paid
to when it is the right time to use P2P technology and when other
approaches such as DNS and Multicast can provide a better solution.

It was commented that we should publish some of this before it all
gets patented. When it comes to finding an arrangement to work on
these issues in the IETF, folks may want to look at what the HIP (Host
Identity Protocol) community did. The also had long and short-term
goals and they formed an IETF WG and an IRTF RG at the same time.

The feeling was that this work would not overlap with the work being
done in the p2prg at this point.

People suggested to have a full-day meeting right before the next IETF
to discuss this work in depth.

The meeting ended and folks took a half an hour break before the
SIPPING session.