Re: [MMUSIC] I-D Action: draft-ietf-mmusic-latching-01.txt

I think the security section series underestimates the security vulnerabilities this introduces. I'm very sad to see the IETF publishing this at all with anything other than "This is not the recommended way to solve this problem" and why.

On May 7, 2013, at 12:29 PM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:

> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title           : Latching: Hosted NAT Traversal (HNT) for Media in Real-Time Communication
> 	Author(s)       : Emil Ivov
>                          Hadriel Kaplan
>                          Dan Wing
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-mmusic-latching-01.txt
> 	Pages           : 14
> 	Date            : 2013-05-07
> 
> Abstract:
>   This document describes behavior of signalling intermediaries in
>   Real-Time Communication (RTC) deployments, sometimes referred to as
>   Session Border Controllers (SBCs), when performing Hosted NAT
>   Traversal (HNT).  HNT is a set of mechanisms, such as media relaying
>   and latching, that such intermediaries use to enable other RTC
>   devices behind NATs to communicate with each other.  This document is
>   non-normative, and is only written to explain HNT in order to provide
>   a reference to the IETF community, as well as an informative
>   description to manufacturers, and users.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mmusic-latching
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mmusic-latching-01
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-mmusic-latching-01
> 
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
> 
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