[AVTCORE] Fwd: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5764 (4788)

["Ben Campbell" <[e-mail]>]

Hi avtcore and security ADs:

Does anyone object to this erratum? It seems pretty straightforward (if 
borderline on the "does this represent the original intent" spectrum.)

Thanks!

Ben.

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> Subject: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5764 (4788)
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
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> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5764,
> "Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Extension to Establish Keys 
> for the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)".
>
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5764&eid=4788
>
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>
>
> Section: 5.3
>
> Original Text
> -------------
> Section 4.2 says:
>    which are assigned as shown below.  The per-association context 
> value
>    is empty.
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>    which are assigned as shown below.  No per-association context 
> value
>    is used.
>
> Notes
> -----
> This code is somewhat ambiguous, though the better interpretation is 
> probably that you should use a zero-length context (arm 2 of 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5705#section-4). However, real 
> implementations do not seem to use the exporter value, so we need to 
> resolve this in that direction.
>
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> RFC5764 (draft-ietf-avt-dtls-srtp-07)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) 
> Extension to Establish Keys for the Secure Real-time Transport 
> Protocol (SRTP)
> Publication Date    : May 2010
> Author(s)           : D. McGrew, E. Rescorla
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Audio/Video Transport
> Area                : Real-time Applications and Infrastructure
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
>