A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Transport Area. The IESG has not made any determination yet. The following draft charter was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg at ietf.org) by 2014-02-17. TURN Revised and Modernized (tram) ------------------------------------------------ Current Status: Proposed WG Assigned Area Director: Spencer Dawkins <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Mailing list Address: tram@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tram Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tram/current/maillist.html Charter: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) was published as RFC 5766 in April 2010. Until recently the protocol had seen rather limited deployment. This is largely because its primary use case is as one of the NAT traversal methods of the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) framework (RFC 5245), and ICE itself was slow to achieve widespread adoption, as other mechanisms were already being used by the VoIP industry. This situation has changed drastically as ICE, and consequently TURN, are mandatory to implement in WebRTC, a set of technologies developed at the IETF and W3C to standardize Real Time Communication on the Web. Together with the arrival of WebRTC, there is a renewed interest in TURN and ICE, as evidenced by recent work updating the ICE framework (still in progress), and standardizing the URIs used to access a STUN (RFC 7064) or TURN (RFC 7065) server. The goal of the TRAM Working Group is to consolidate the various initiatives to update TURN and STUN to make them more suitable for the WebRTC environment. The work will include the addition of DTLS as an additional transport, authentication mechanisms, and extensions to TURN and STUN. The Working Group will closely coordinate with the appropriate Working Groups, including RTCWEB, MMUSIC, and HTTPBIS. Milestones: TBD
