Re: [splices] Using Two Separate Devices to Start a Conversation proposal

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@cisco.com> Mon, 06 June 2011 19:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [splices] Using Two Separate Devices to Start a Conversation proposal
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On 6/6/2011 3:35 PM, Alan Johnston wrote:
> If I understand correctly, there will be two separate RTP streams, two m= lines?
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> If this is the case, then two separate NAT traversal mechanisms will be used (i.e. ICE rubs twice or two relays used). As far as ZRTP or other media path keying protocols, each session will be keyed separately. With ZRTP the endpoint will see two different ZIDs.  This does unfortunately mean two Diffie Hellman calculations.
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> Since these are separate sessions, each will have an RTCP session as well, and these may need NAT traversal as well.
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> So this will work, but things like logging and quality reporting will be quite complicated.

As Dale mentioned, this also depends on the other end doing the "right 
thing" with this case. It is a leap of faith to assume it will realize 
it should accept both streams and use one for input and the other for 
output.

ISTM its at least as likely that it would accept the first stream, 
reject the second, and then have only a one-way "conversation".

	Thanks,
	Paul

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> On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:07 PM, "Worley, Dale R (Dale)"<dworley@avaya.com>  wrote:
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>> ________________________________________
>> From: splices-bounces@ietf.org [splices-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Peter Musgrave [musgravepj@gmail.com]
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>> I have concerns about this approach. Fundamentally the RTP stream is not symmetric (in the sense of RFC4961). This has consequences for NAT traversal, general interoperability and media path security schemes like ZRTP.
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>> I have to agree and disagree...  As Rifaat diagrammed it, the call should work, as it uses already-defined SIP facilities.  Indeed, it's rather clever, I'd never thought of joining a sendonly dialog with a recvonly dialog.  There are some limitations, in that we depend on the far-end UA to execute the join in the way we want.
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>> The problems you raise, those of asymmetric RTP, already exist -- One can make a sendonly audio call, or a recvonly audio call.  We need to ensure that NAT traversal and ZRTP work correctly when  media stream is set up to be one-way.
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