Re: [rtcweb] No Interim on SDES at this juncture

[Hadriel Kaplan <[e-mail]>]

On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Ted Hardie <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Oh excellent, then it's a "No Plan" for SRTP as well.  Cool.
> 
> Hi Hadriel,
> Actually this isn't correct.  The plan of record for this is DTLS/SRTP:
> If you think that plan isn't clear enough in the security architecture and security documents, 
> suggested text would be welcome.  The point of an SDES discussion wasn't to create an 
> initial plan, in other words, or event to discuss changing the existing plan, but to consider 
> whether other options were to be included.

What we had talked about back in IETF 83 (or some previous meeting) was whether DTLS-SRTP would be the only MTI key exchange, or whether SDES would also be MTI.
We did not come to consensus in IETF 83, and tabled it for more discussion.  Since then it has been put at the end of the agendas, resulting in us running out of time for it.  At the last IETF 86 or Boston interim, one of the WG Chairs (I don't remember who) said we'd have a virtual interim dedicated to cover it.  Now we don't.  Ergo, we don't have a plan.


> We haven't set an agenda for Berlin, but the obvious thing to do here is not to wait, but to kick of the discussion on the list with a draft proposing what you want to see; or, as I said below "Working group discussion on the point, and documents addressing it, are welcome at this point, if folks do want to re-open the topic in this venue. "

We've had a lot of discussions on the list about this over the past couple years.  I thought the general feeling was at this point we needed to discuss it live - either in person or on a con call - because it was hard to follow all the arguments in email.  Maybe that was just my feeling, but I could swear some other people said the same thing at the last IETF 86 meeting or Boston interim.

-hadriel