Re: [rtcweb] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-thomson-rtcweb-alpn-00.txt

[Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]>]

On 4/9/14 3:52 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 9 April 2014 12:12, Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> But what is the *protocol*? I don't see that mentioned in the draft at all.
>
> There are two.  Those two are described (perhaps not explicitly
> enough) in the list in Section 2.

Not explicitly enough, IMO.

>> IIUC it must be the multiplexing of STUN, SRTP, and SCTP over DTLS. (Maybe
>> not STUN - maybe that is *below* or *beside* DTLS.) I see how it could make
>> sense to use ALPN to verify that this is the intended use of the DTLS
>> session. But that isn't even mentioned in the draft.
>
> Yeah, STUN isn't inside DTLS, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to
> "negotiate" its use.
>
>> And, from a protocol perspective, what is the difference between webrtc and
>> c-webrtc? AFAICT this is just two different usages of the same "protocol",
>> not two different protocols.
>
> Yep.  But that's what a protocol is.

Not in my book. I expect two different protocols to look different on 
the wire.

You seem to be saying that SMTP used to talk to ietf mailing lists is a 
different protocol from SMTP used to talk to my lawyer, because I expect 
my lawyer to keep the communications confidential.

	Thanks,
	Paul