The Binary Floor Control Protocol
RFC 8855, “The Binary Floor Control Protocol”, is a Proposed Standard document published in January 2021 by G. Camarillo, K. Drage, T. Kristensen, J. Ott, C. Eckel. It obsoletes RFC 4582. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Floor control is a means to manage joint or exclusive access to shared resources in a (multiparty) conferencing environment. Thereby, floor control complements other functions -- such as conference and media session setup, conference policy manipulation, and media control -- that are realized by other protocols.
This document specifies the Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP). BFCP is used between floor participants and floor control servers, and between floor chairs (i.e., moderators) and floor control servers.
This document obsoletes RFC 4582.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
The canonical text of RFC 8855 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in HTML,TXT,PDF,XML.
- RFC 8854 WebRTC Forward Error Correction Requirements
- RFC 8856 Session Description Protocol Format for Binary Floor Control Protocol Streams
- RFC 8853 Using Simulcast in Session Description Protocol and RTP Sessions
- RFC 8857 The WebSocket Protocol as a Transport for the Binary Floor Control Protocol
- RFC 8852 RTP Stream Identifier Source Description
- RFC 8858 Indicating Exclusive Support of RTP and RTP Control Protocol Multiplexing Using the Session Description Protocol
- RFC 8851 RTP Payload Format Restrictions
- RFC 8859 A Framework for Session Description Protocol Attributes When Multiplexing