Re: [rtcweb] Consent Freshness: Some suggestions for editorial clarifications

[Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Christer Holmberg <
[e-mail]> wrote:

>  Hi,
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>  Based on feedback I receive from implementers, there are a couple of
> clarifications I think would be useful in the consent freshness draft.
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> As STUN binding requests for consent are sent unreliably, and are not
> re-transmitted, I think it would be useful to have some explicit text
> saying that individual requests (and/or their associated responses) may get
> lost in the network, and that a sender must be prepared that a response to
> such requestmay never arrive.
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> It may be obvious to us, but maybe not as clear to the first-time reader
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> Section 4.1 says:
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> “That is, if a valid STUN binding response corresponding to one of the
> STUN requests sent in the last 30 seconds
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>                 has not been received from the remote peer's Transport
> Address, the endpoint MUST cease transmission on that 5-tuple.”
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> First, I suggest the following clarification:
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> s/”to one of the STUN requests sent in the last 30 seconds”/”to one of the
> STUN requests (not necessarily the last one) sent in the last 30 seconds”.
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> Second, there is no explicit text on for how long the client keeps the
> STUN transaction alive, i.e. for how long it waits for the response.
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> I assume that, after 30 seconds, the client does not need to maintain
> state and wait for the response anymore.
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> ​My understanding is that the sender doesn't need remember the request for
> 30 sec, instead it needs to remember it only for RTT duration. If a
> matching response is received within that duration you have a 'hit'. If
> there is no 'hit' over the last 30 sec, consent expires.
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> I agree this isn't clear in the current version.
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> How do you calculate the RTT? Based on previous transactions?
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​I should have said smoothed RTT. ​I believe that is what STUN and TCP
currently use.



> What if, for whatever reason, the roundtrip for a STUN binding
> request/response takes longer that previously? You would discard the
> response.
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​Yes, but that shouldn't a problem for consent I think, because only if
there was no 'hit' over the last 30 sec would consent expire.


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> I think it is much more clear the specify a time. 30 seconds is a good
> value, because if it takes longer the response is “unvalid” anyway.
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​I am okay with a fixed duration instead of a smoothed RTT. However, 30 sec
looks too long to me to remember the request, holding unnecessary resources
(we just need one matching response over the last 30 sec).

The other question is, do we really need to specify the duration to achieve
interoperability here? I though Martin's opinion was that isn't needed to
achieve interoperability, but I could have misread one of those
discussions..

Muthu


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> Regards,
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> Christer
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>  I think it would be useful to explicitly indicate that, and also say
> that responses that are received after that time must be discarded.
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> Thanks!
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> Regards,
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> Christer
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