Connection Reuse draft to focus on TLS connections

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We intend to slightly rescope the Connection Reuse draft:

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-sip-connect-reuse-12.txt

Based on input from our ADs, the WG chairs and the editor of the have  
agreed to eliminate the part of the draft that discusses the  
implementation of reusing non-TLS connections. The stage for this is  
set in the abstract of the current draft, from which I quote:

> From the security perspective, it is bad practice to reuse a single  
> connection for the TCP or SCTP transport between two peers, and this  
> document provides specific insights into why this is the case. As a  
> remedy, it suggests using two TCP connections (or two SCTP  
> associations), each opened pro-actively towards the recipient by the  
> sender.


We may  discuss at a later date the idea of developing a draft for  
connection reuse in the absence of TLS.

I'm really not expecting anybody to object strongly to this approach,  
but am bringing this to the list to avoid surprises down the road. If  
you have major issues with doing it this way, please bring them up now.

--
Dean Willis (as chair, ten years and counting . . .)


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