Re: [rtcweb] I-D Action: draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-08.txt

Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> Wed, 09 April 2014 11:00 UTC

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On 9 Apr 2014, at 11:02, 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 Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers Working Group of the IETF.
> 
>        Title           : WebRTC Data Channels
>        Authors         : Randell Jesup
>                          Salvatore Loreto
>                          Michael Tuexen
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-08.txt
> 	Pages           : 15
> 	Date            : 2014-04-09
> 
> Abstract:
>   The Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers working group is charged
>   to provide protocol support for direct interactive rich communication
>   using audio, video, and data between two peers' web-browsers.  This
>   document specifies the non-(S)RTP media data transport aspects of the
>   WebRTC framework.  It provides an architectural overview of how the
>   Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is used in the WebRTC
>   context as a generic transport service allowing WEB-browsers to
>   exchange generic data from peer to peer.

This talks about “(S)RTP” throughout, but the rtp-usage draft requires that SRTP be used for WebRTC, and disallows plain RTP. I think this draft could be simplified by changing “(S)RTP” to “SRTP” throughout.

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Colin Perkins
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