The irreplaceable Robin Cover reports on an interesting draft specification from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for using the Session Initiation Protocol to deliver Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) alerts:
SIP is an application-layer control (signaling) protocol for
creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more
participants. These sessions include Internet telephone calls,
multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences.
SIP is a key standard in the Voice-over-IP telephone world and it will be interesting to see how this might be applied. (If it offers any clues, the authors of the Internet Draft hail from Nokia Siemens, NeuStar and Columbia University.)
