RE: [Sip] draft-ietf-sip-sips-03.txt: Closing of Opened issues

"Francois Audet" <audet@nortel.com> Thu, 26 April 2007 21:29 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Sip] draft-ietf-sip-sips-03.txt: Closing of Opened issues
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:28:49 -0500
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> > tell me, why is tls (instead of tcp) needed in via when uri 
> scheme is 
> > sips?  cannot tls/tcp be concluded if transport is tcp and 
> uri scheme 
> > is sips.
> 
> I've always wondered about this one myself. What about 
> TLS/SCTP and DTLS, which might serve as transports for SIPS?

VIA already supports SCTP, TLS-SCTP. And the draft provides the 
references to RFC 4168 that defines it.

DTLS is defined in
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/sip/draft-jennings-sip-dtls-03.txt.

On the question of "why we are using VIA in the first place?" instead or
replying to where the request came from, well, I don't know. It wasn't
me
who wrote RFC 3261. This is a widely known characteristic described
in RFC 3581.

It's completely out of scope of this draft. 






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