Re: [straw] Alissa Cooper's Discuss on draft-ietf-straw-b2bua-dtls-srtp-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

["Ben Campbell" <[e-mail]>]

On 23 Mar 2016, at 11:04, Victor Pascual Avila wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Ram Mohan R (rmohanr)
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> NEW:
>>>> B2BUAs may be deployed for address hiding or media latching 
>>>> [RFC7362],
>>>> although TURN is more often used for this purpose and media 
>>>> latching
>>>> is not
>>>> recommended due to its security properties. Such B2BUAs are able to
>>>> perform their
>>>> functions without requiring termination of DTLS-SRTP sessions i.e.
>>>> these B2BUAs need not act as DTLS proxy and decrypt the RTP 
>>>> payload.
>>>
>>> I think the statement that TURN is more often used for media 
>>> latching is
>>> at least somewhat aspirational. But I'm okay with that aspiration 
>>> :-)
>>
>> :) Agree. There are more B2BUAs out there in field doing latching 
>> than
>> people using TURN.
>> But I think there is no harm in saying this way.
>
> How about something like the following: "B2BUAs may be deployed for
> address hiding or media latching [RFC7362], although TURN (and ICE) is
> expected to be used more often for this purpose as it provides better
> security properties"

I would personally be happy with that. The more neutral tone might be 
less off-putting to the target audience.

Alissa, would that work for you?

Ben.