Re: [rtcweb] Resolving whether to support additional key management methods

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Fri, 05 October 2012 17:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Resolving whether to support additional key management methods
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On 10/04/2012 05:32 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:
> The Chairs would like to foster resolution of the long-running
> discussion of support for additional key management methods, e.g. as
> described in draft-ohlsson-rtcweb-sdes-support and the meeting
> materials supporting draft-ietf-avtcore-srtp-ekt.   Working group
> discussion of this matter is, of course, welcome, but the chairs are
> also considering a virtual interim meeting in January of 2013, focused
> on this specific topic.  Comments on this plan or on the relevant
> approaches is welcome.

What is the proposed outcome space of this discussion?
We already have a decision of "MUST do DTLS(-SRTP)", but I'm not sure 
what the other questions are.

I could see the result of the SDES discussion being one of:

- MUST do SDES
- SHOULD do SDES
- MAY do SDES
- MUST NOT do SDES

I also see another discussion around EKT, which could conclude

- MUST do EKT
- MAY do EKT
- MUST NOT do EKT

(I don't see much point in "SHOULD do EKT" - it doesn't give 
interoperability, so is not much more useful than MAY)

Are there other things on the table? Are both of the above on the table?
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> regards,
>
> Ted, Cullen, Magnus
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