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Re: [rtcweb] consent freshness [was RE: STUN for keep-alive]

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 19 September 2011 16:15 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:16:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] consent freshness [was RE: STUN for keep-alive]
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Magnus Westerlund [mailto:magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com]
> When Eric mentioned 'consent freshness', it was the first time I
> had seen him use that term.  (No, I didn't search the archives.)

Yeah, I just made it up. Maybe not the best term....


> My interpretation 'consent freshness' is that, after a call had been
> up and running the RTP receiver might die or disconnect from the
> network, and a new host or restarted application might take over
> that IP address and possibly also start listening on that same
> UDP port.  By 'consent freshness', he wants a valid listener to
> occasionally say "yes, I still like receiving this flow"
> and he wants other listeners to not send that message -- causing
> the sender to eventually give up.

Yep. I'm certainly open to arguments that this isn't important... :)

-Ekr

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