Re: [rtcweb] Summary of ICE discussion

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Sun, 09 October 2011 16:24 UTC

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2011/10/9  <sebastien.cubaud@orange.com>:
> This mechanism provides basic media consent verification and if it turns out
> that it provides less security properties than ICE or other drawbacks (e.g.
> increasing media session establishment delay, issues with the few initial RTP
> packets,..), it could be seen as a fallback media consent verification
> when ICE is not implemented at each end of media terminations.
>
> Looking forward to hearing feedbacks from the group on this.

Hi,

ICE is clearly the best solution as it handles NAT, security (peer
verification) and allows IPv4/IPv6 transition. SIP endpoints *MUST*
implement it or continue working in vendors wallen gardens. Bad luck
for them.

But creating a new spec (as you suggest) just to allow lazy SIP
vendors (those who has never cared about security) to interoperate
with RTCweb world instead on forcing them to implement ICE is IMHO a
very bad idea.

SIP vendors MUST do their homeworks. ICE and SRTP were initially
designed for SIP. So SIP devices MUST implement them.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>