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Re: [rtcweb] Question about support for RFC 6520 DTLS heartbeat

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 14 January 2015 01:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Question about support for RFC 6520 DTLS heartbeat
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On 13 January 2015 at 16:57, Bernard Aboba <bernard.aboba@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it correct to conclude that existing implementations do not use the DTLS
> heartbeat other than for PMTU discovery?

I don't think we use it because I don't think that it is implemented
in NSS.  We don't need it now that we use ICE for the keep-alive
stuff.  I'll let others talk about PMTU discovery.

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