Re: Document Action: 'General Internet Signaling Transport(GIST) over Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) andDatagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)' to Experimental RFC

Hi all,

Thanks a lot Jukka, Lars, Magnus, reviewers, the whole IESG and NSIS WG 
for your inputs and efforts moving this through!

Regards,
Xiaoming, Christian and Jon

The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
> 
> - 'General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) over Stream Control 
>    Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and Datagram Transport Layer Security 
>    (DTLS) '
>    <draft-ietf-nsis-ntlp-sctp-15.txt> as an Experimental RFC
> 
> 
> This document is the product of the Next Steps in Signaling Working Group. 
> 
> The IESG contact person is Lars Eggert.
> 
> A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nsis-ntlp-sctp-15.txt
> 
> Technical Summary
> 
> The General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) protocol currently
> uses TCP or TLS over TCP for connection mode operation. This
> document describes the usage of GIST over the Stream Control
> Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and Datagram Transport Layer Security
> (DTLS). The use of SCTP can take advantage of features provided by
> SCTP, namely streaming-based transport, support of multiple streams
> to avoid head of line blocking, the support of multi-homing to
> provide network level fault tolerance, as well as partial reliability
> extension for partially reliable data transmission. This document
> also specifies how to establish GIST security over datagram transport
> protocols using an extension to DTLS.
> 
> Working Group Summary
> 
> This document is an outcome of the NSIS Working Group.
> 
> Document Quality
> 
> The document is a supplemental document to the NSIS protocols with an
> experimental purpose. There exists two independent implementations of
> the specification.
> 
> Personnel
> 
> Jukka Manner ([email protected]) is the Document Shepherd. Lars Eggert
> ([email protected]) reviewed it for the IESG.
> 
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