The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Connection Reuse in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) ' <draft-ietf-sip-connect-reuse-14.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Session Initiation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Cullen Jennings and Robert Sparks. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sip-connect-reuse-14.txt Technical summary. This document enables a pair of communicating proxies to reuse a congestion-controlled connection between themselves for sending requests in the forward and backwards direction. Because the connection is essentially aliased for requests going in the backwards direction, reuse should be predicated upon both the communicating endpoints authenticating themselves using X.509 certificates through TLS. For this reason, we only consider connection reuse for TLS over TCP and TLS over SCTP. A single connection should not be reused for the TCP or SCTP transport between two peers, and this document provides insight 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. Finally, this document also provides guidelines on connection reuse and virtual SIP servers and the interaction of connection reuse and DNS SRV lookups in SIP. Working group summary. There is consensus in the working group to publish this document. Document Quality At SIPiT 18 there were recorded 6 implementations of connect-reuse. At SIPiT 19 there were recorded 27 implementations of connect-reuse (30% of 90 implementations). This was the last SIPiT apparently polled for numbers of implementations of this extension. Personnel The proto document shepherd for this document was Keith Drage. The responsible Area Director was Cullen Jennings. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
