Re: [AVTCORE] AD review: draft-ietf-ports-for-ucast-mcast-rtp-00

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Fri, 25 February 2011 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [AVTCORE] AD review: draft-ietf-ports-for-ucast-mcast-rtp-00
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(trimming to one topic)

On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Ali C. Begen (abegen) wrote:

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>> 3) In section 4.3.1, "might also need to be authenticated" could
>> be more assertive. Are you trying to primarily influence
>> implementers or application designers here?
> 
> Implementers. As being more assertive, I am not sure how we could do that since we don’t wanna be more assertive.

Are you trying to not be assertive about implementing or about using? If you're just trying to avoid forcing people to _use_
the mechanism, but want to make sure a particular deployment can decide to use the mechanism without forklifting its
install base, you could say something like  "Implementations MUST support authenticating such RTCP messages by 
using a Token".

RjS