TY - JOUR T1 - An Extension of the IETF RFC 4376 Based on Distributed Floor Control Servers AU - , Abdelali Ibriz JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 6 IS - 7 SP - 778 EP - 784 PY - 2007 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2007.778.784 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2007.778.784 KW - Internet video conferencing KW -CSCW KW -floor control and policy KW -SIP KW -RFC4376 AB - Floor control is a means to manage joint or exclusive access to shared resources in a synchronous groupware. Floor control in CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) is a metaphor for `assigning the floor to a speaker`, which is applicable to any kind of sharable resources within conferencing and cooperation environments. This study discusses an extension of a floor control protocol for internet synchronous groupware. We purpose how to extend RFC4376. Extension concerns two levels: Distribution and the organization of Floor control servers, for the same cooperative session and separation betweenfloor control policy and floor control protocol. Floor control servers mediate the access to shared remote resources in a synchronous cooperative session. Floor control servers, for the same cooperative session, are distributed and organized in a logical tree. Also they are used for routing floor control messages and for storing the floor participant requests. ER -