Internet Personal Appliances Control
(IPAC)

There is much interest in enabling networked personal appliances to communicate with and control each other over the Internet. Although there are numerous networking technologies which allow networked personal appliances to operate within a single home environment or domain, there is currently no support for control of these devices from the Internet, or for interworking the various home networking technologies. The ability to provide such support will radically enhance the ability to provide exciting new services. The initial proposals and ideas on this topic were submitted to the IETF SIP WG. 

LATEST... Review the IETF 51 IPAC Bar BoF meeting minutes (August 8, 2001) [HTML] [Word] [text] and send comments to the mailing list. The goal is to hold a (final) formal IPAC BoF at IETF 52. View the mailing list archive to see what's been discussed so far.

For more background on this topic you may want to:

• Read the Internet Personal Appliances Control (IPAC) Discussion Internet Draft.
• Read a description of the BoF.
• Read the Draft WG Charter.
• Consult the archives of the mailing list
• Visit the Networked Appliances web page, which contains a lot of the material (e.g., presentations, Internet Drafts, etc.) that preceded and initiated this BoF.
• Subscribe to the appliances discussion list, appliances@research.telcordia.com, by sending a mail to appliances-request@research.telcordia.com