Re: [rtcweb] Asking TLS for help with media isolation

[Watson Ladd <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Bernard Aboba <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Apr 3, 2014, at 19:49, Watson Ladd <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> I don't see why the isolation status cannot be included as an
>> extension to SRTP. You aren't asking TLS to make extensions for video
>> resolution and codec after all.
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> [BA] The isolation request could be carried in an RTP header extension until, for example, a RR was obtained by the sender confirming it was received.  However, RTP extensions are optional and the sender wouldn't have confirmation from the receiver via the media plane that the isolation request was honored. So the TLS approach provides better semantics.

I feel this isn't worth changing TLS for, because you don't change
transports for each application because the application didn't do it
right the first time. But we have ALPN, so maybe a tag on that could
work. The right fix IMHO, is clearly to fix RTP to send this data and
keep the transport layer clean.

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd