Re: [rtcweb] draft-ietf-rtcweb-transports

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Wed, 22 October 2014 14:52 UTC

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On 08/25/2014 07:36 AM, Justin Uberti wrote:
> Yes, 4571 must be used for ICE connectivity checks, when using ICE-TCP.
>
> However, TURN/TCP has its own framing for STUN messages.
>
> I would simplify your sentence to:
>
>    If ICE-TCP connections are used, framing according to [RFC4571] MUST
>    be used for all packets, unless the content has its own framing
> mechanism.

Checking the list for long-delayed updates....

Checking back: The change from TCP to ICE-TCP is good (this excludes
TURN-TCP from this paragraph), but the exchange leaves me uncertain
about the status of STUN packets on ICE-TCP connections.

Do they happen at all? If they happen, should they be RFC 4571
encapsulated, or not?

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net
> <mailto:ibc@aliax.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     draft-ietf-rtcweb-transports-06 says:
>
>        If TCP connections are used, RTP framing according to [RFC4571]
>     MUST
>        be used, both for the RTP packets and for the DTLS packets used to
>        carry data channels.
>
>
>     Not just RTP and DTLS, but also for STUN packets must be framed with
>     RFC4571. And I do not understand why "DTLS packets used to carry data
>     channels". In fact all the DTLS packets (also the ones for the
>     handshake) must be framed as per RFC 4571.
>
>
>     So I suggest to improve the above text as follows:
>
>        If TCP connections are used, RTP framing according to [RFC4571]
>     MUST
>        be used for the STUN packets, SRTP packets, SRTCP packets and DTLS
>        packets.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Iñaki Baz Castillo
>     <ibc@aliax.net <mailto:ibc@aliax.net>>
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