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Given that TURN servers can be used for STUN, is there a need to
autodiscover STUN-only servers?

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:23 PM, 🔓Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 15, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Hutton, Andrew <andrew.hutton@unify.com>
> wrote:
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> +1 Also wondering why it is not appropriate?
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> F20 in the requirements draft states:
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> F20     The browser must support the use of STUN and TURN
>            servers that are supplied by entities other than
>            the web application (i.e. the network provider).
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> So I was thinking the need for specifying the discovery method would not
> be controversial.
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> Note that draft-ietf-tram-turn-server-discovery only discovers TURN
> servers.  If we need to discover STUN servers, too -- and I think we do --
> we need that document to expand its scope or a second document.
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> I recently attended a talk where Matt Peterson presented Burning Man's
> network.  That network assigns RFC6598 addresses to each Burning Man
> "camp", and their ISP provides CGN'd addresses to Burning Man.  Each camp
> operates its own WiFi network, and we can all reasonably assume they are
> using typical consumer or SMB NAPT devices for those networks (e.g.,
> D-Link, Linksys, Ubiquity, etc.).  To avoid tromboning camp-to-camp WebRTC
> traffic to their ISP's CGN, they would benefit from a STUN and a TURN
> server within the Burning Man network.  His presentation can be found at
> https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog62/agenda (PDF and video).
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> -d
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> Andy
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> *From:* Simon Perreault [mailto:sperreault@jive.com <sperreault@jive.com>]
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> *Sent:* 15 December 2014 15:49
> *To:* Eric Rescorla
> *Cc:* Hutton, Andrew; rtcweb@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [rtcweb] rtcweb-transports reference to TRAM discovery
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> I do not believe that this is an appropriate requirement
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> Care to say why?
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> Thanks,
> Simon
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