Mozilla

United States of America randell-ietf@jesup.org

Ericsson

Hirsalantie 11 02420 Jorvas Finland salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com

Münster University of Applied Sciences

Stegerwaldstrasse 39 48565 Steinfurt Germany tuexen@fh-muenster.de

The WebRTC framework specifies protocol support for direct, interactive, rich communication using audio, video, and data between two peers' web browsers. This document specifies the non-media data transport aspects of the WebRTC framework. It provides an architectural overview of how the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is used in the WebRTC context as a generic transport service that allows web browsers to exchange generic data from peer to peer.

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Table of Contents

• .  Introduction
• .  Conventions
• .  Use Cases
  • .  Use Cases for Unreliable Data Channels
  • .  Use Cases for Reliable Data Channels
• .  Requirements
• .  SCTP over DTLS over UDP Considerations
• .  The Usage of SCTP for Data Channels
  • .  SCTP Protocol Considerations
  • .  SCTP Association Management
  • .  SCTP Streams
  • .  Data Channel Definition
  • .  Opening a Data Channel
  • .  Transferring User Data on a Data Channel
  • .  Closing a Data Channel
• .  Security Considerations
• .  IANA Considerations
• .  References
  • .  Normative References
  • .  Informative References
• Acknowledgements
• Authors' Addresses

Introduction In the WebRTC framework, communication between the parties consists of media (for example, audio and video) and non-media data. Media is sent using the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) and is not specified further here. Non-media data is handled by using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) encapsulated in DTLS. DTLS 1.0 is defined in ; the present latest version, DTLS 1.2, is defined in ; and an upcoming version, DTLS 1.3, is defined in .

Basic Stack Diagram +----------+ | SCTP | +----------+ | DTLS | +----------+ | ICE/UDP | +----------+

The encapsulation of SCTP over DTLS (see ) over ICE/UDP (see ) provides a NAT traversal solution together with confidentiality, source authentication, and integrity-protected transfers. This data transport service operates in parallel to the SRTP media transports, and all of them can eventually share a single UDP port number. SCTP, as specified in with the partial reliability extension (PR-SCTP) defined in and the additional policies defined in , provides multiple streams natively with reliable, and the relevant partially reliable, delivery modes for user messages. Using the reconfiguration extension defined in allows an increase in the number of streams during the lifetime of an SCTP association and allows individual SCTP streams to be reset. Using allows the interleave of large messages to avoid monopolization and adds support for prioritizing SCTP streams. The remainder of this document is organized as follows: Sections and provide use cases and requirements for both unreliable and reliable peer-to-peer data channels; discusses SCTP over DTLS over UDP; and specifies how SCTP should be used by the WebRTC protocol framework for transporting non-media data between web browsers.

Conventions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Use Cases This section defines use cases specific to data channels. Please note that this section is informational only.

Use Cases for Unreliable Data Channels

1. A real-time game where position and object state information are sent via one or more unreliable data channels. Note that at any time, there may not be any SRTP media channels or all SRTP media channels may be inactive, and there may also be reliable data channels in use.
2. Providing non-critical information to a user about the reason for a state update in a video chat or conference, such as mute state.

Use Cases for Reliable Data Channels

3. A real-time game where critical state information needs to be transferred, such as control information. Such a game may have no SRTP media channels, or they may be inactive at any given time or may only be added due to in-game actions.
4. Non-real-time file transfers between people chatting. Note that this may involve a large number of files to transfer sequentially or in parallel, such as when sharing a folder of images or a directory of files.
5. Real-time text chat during an audio and/or video call with an individual or with multiple people in a conference.
6. Renegotiation of the configuration of the PeerConnection.
7. Proxy browsing, where a browser uses data channels of a PeerConnection to send and receive HTTP/HTTPS requests and data, for example, to avoid local Internet filtering or monitoring.

Requirements This section lists the requirements for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) data channels between two browsers. Please note that this section is informational only.

1. Multiple simultaneous data channels must be supported. Note that there may be zero or more SRTP media streams in parallel with the data channels in the same PeerConnection, and the number and state (active/inactive) of these SRTP media streams may change at any time.
2. Both reliable and unreliable data channels must be supported.
3. Data channels of a PeerConnection must be congestion controlled either individually, as a class, or in conjunction with the SRTP media streams of the PeerConnection. This ensures that data channels don't cause congestion problems for these SRTP media streams, and that the WebRTC PeerConnection does not cause excessive problems when run in parallel with TCP connections.
4. The application should be able to provide guidance as to the relative priority of each data channel relative to each other and relative to the SRTP media streams. This will interact with the congestion control algorithms.
5. Data channels must be secured, which allows for confidentiality, integrity, and source authentication. See and for detailed information.
6. Data channels must provide message fragmentation support such that IP-layer fragmentation can be avoided no matter how large a message the JavaScript application passes to be sent. It also must ensure that large data channel transfers don't unduly delay traffic on other data channels.
7. The data channel transport protocol must not encode local IP addresses inside its protocol fields; doing so reveals potentially private information and leads to failure if the address is depended upon.
8. The data channel transport protocol should support unbounded-length "messages" (i.e., a virtual socket stream) at the application layer for such things as image-file-transfer; implementations might enforce a reasonable message size limit.
9. The data channel transport protocol should avoid IP fragmentation. It must support Path MTU (PMTU) discovery and must not rely on ICMP or ICMPv6 being generated or being passed back, especially for PMTU discovery.
10. It must be possible to implement the protocol stack in the user application space.

SCTP over DTLS over UDP Considerations The important features of SCTP in the WebRTC context are the following:

• Usage of TCP-friendly congestion control.
• modifiable congestion control for integration with the SRTP media stream congestion control.
• Support of multiple unidirectional streams, each providing its own notion of ordered message delivery.
• Support of ordered and out-of-order message delivery.
• Support of arbitrarily large user messages by providing fragmentation and reassembly.
• Support of PMTU discovery.
• Support of reliable or partially reliable message transport.

The WebRTC data channel mechanism does not support SCTP multihoming. The SCTP layer will simply act as if it were running on a single-homed host, since that is the abstraction that the DTLS layer (a connection-oriented, unreliable datagram service) exposes. The encapsulation of SCTP over DTLS defined in provides confidentiality, source authentication, and integrity-protected transfers. Using DTLS over UDP in combination with Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) enables middlebox traversal in IPv4- and IPv6-based networks. SCTP as specified in MUST be used in combination with the extension defined in and provides the following features for transporting non-media data between browsers:

• Support of multiple unidirectional streams.
• Ordered and unordered delivery of user messages.
• Reliable and partially reliable transport of user messages.

Each SCTP user message contains a Payload Protocol Identifier (PPID) that is passed to SCTP by its upper layer on the sending side and provided to its upper layer on the receiving side. The PPID can be used to multiplex/demultiplex multiple upper layers over a single SCTP association. In the WebRTC context, the PPID is used to distinguish between UTF-8 encoded user data, binary-encoded user data, and the Data Channel Establishment Protocol (DCEP) defined in . Please note that the PPID is not accessible via the JavaScript API. The encapsulation of SCTP over DTLS, together with the SCTP features listed above, satisfies all the requirements listed in . The layering of protocols for WebRTC is shown in .

WebRTC Protocol Layers +------+------+------+ | DCEP | UTF-8|Binary| | | Data | Data | +------+------+------+ | SCTP | +----------------------------------+ | STUN | SRTP | DTLS | +----------------------------------+ | ICE | +----------------------------------+ | UDP1 | UDP2 | UDP3 | ... | +----------------------------------+

This stack (especially in contrast to DTLS over SCTP and in combination with SCTP over UDP ) has been chosen for the following reasons:

• supports the transmission of arbitrarily large user messages;
• shares the DTLS connection with the SRTP media channels of the PeerConnection; and
• provides privacy for the SCTP control information.

Referring to the protocol stack shown in :

• the usage of DTLS 1.0 over UDP is specified in ;
• the usage of DTLS 1.2 over UDP in specified in ;
• the usage of DTLS 1.3 over UDP is specified in an upcoming document ; and
• the usage of SCTP on top of DTLS is specified in .

Please note that the demultiplexing Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) vs. SRTP vs. DTLS is done as described in , and SCTP is the only payload of DTLS. Since DTLS is typically implemented in user application space, the SCTP stack also needs to be a user application space stack. The ICE/UDP layer can handle IP address changes during a session without needing interaction with the DTLS and SCTP layers. However, SCTP SHOULD be notified when an address change has happened. In this case, SCTP SHOULD retest the Path MTU and reset the congestion state to the initial state. In the case of window-based congestion control like the one specified in , this means setting the congestion window and slow-start threshold to its initial values. Incoming ICMP or ICMPv6 messages can't be processed by the SCTP layer, since there is no way to identify the corresponding association. Therefore, SCTP MUST support performing Path MTU discovery without relying on ICMP or ICMPv6 as specified in by using probing messages specified in . The initial Path MTU at the IP layer SHOULD NOT exceed 1200 bytes for IPv4 and 1280 bytes for IPv6. In general, the lower-layer interface of an SCTP implementation should be adapted to address the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 (being connectionless) or DTLS (being connection oriented). When the protocol stack shown in is used, DTLS protects the complete SCTP packet, so it provides confidentiality, integrity, and source authentication of the complete SCTP packet. SCTP provides congestion control on a per-association basis. This means that all SCTP streams within a single SCTP association share the same congestion window. Traffic not being sent over SCTP is not covered by SCTP congestion control. Using a congestion control different from the standard one might improve the impact on the parallel SRTP media streams. SCTP uses the same port number concept as TCP and UDP. Therefore, an SCTP association uses two port numbers, one at each SCTP endpoint.

The Usage of SCTP for Data Channels

SCTP Protocol Considerations The DTLS encapsulation of SCTP packets as described in MUST be used. This SCTP stack and its upper layer MUST support the usage of multiple SCTP streams. A user message can be sent ordered or unordered and with partial or full reliability. The following SCTP protocol extensions are required:

• The stream reconfiguration extension defined in MUST be supported. It is used for closing channels.
• The dynamic address reconfiguration extension defined in MUST be used to signal the support of the stream reset extension defined in . Other features of are OPTIONAL.
• The partial reliability extension defined in MUST be supported. In addition to the timed reliability PR-SCTP policy defined in , the limited retransmission policy defined in MUST be supported. Limiting the number of retransmissions to zero, combined with unordered delivery, provides a UDP-like service where each user message is sent exactly once and delivered in the order received.

The support for message interleaving as defined in SHOULD be used.

SCTP Association Management In the WebRTC context, the SCTP association will be set up when the two endpoints of the WebRTC PeerConnection agree on opening it, as negotiated by the JavaScript Session Establishment Protocol (JSEP), which is typically an exchange of the Session Description Protocol (SDP) . It will use the DTLS connection selected via ICE, and typically this will be shared via BUNDLE or equivalent with DTLS connections used to key the SRTP media streams. The number of streams negotiated during SCTP association setup SHOULD be 65535, which is the maximum number of streams that can be negotiated during the association setup. SCTP supports two ways of terminating an SCTP association. The first method is a graceful one, where a procedure that ensures no messages are lost during the shutdown of the association is used. The second method is a non-graceful one, where one side can just abort the association. Each SCTP endpoint continuously supervises the reachability of its peer by monitoring the number of retransmissions of user messages and test messages. In case of excessive retransmissions, the association is terminated in a non-graceful way. If an SCTP association is closed in a graceful way, all of its data channels are closed. In case of a non-graceful teardown, all data channels are also closed, but an error indication SHOULD be provided if possible.

SCTP Streams SCTP defines a stream as a unidirectional logical channel existing within an SCTP association to another SCTP endpoint. The streams are used to provide the notion of in-sequence delivery and for multiplexing. Each user message is sent on a particular stream, either ordered or unordered. Ordering is preserved only for ordered messages sent on the same stream.

Data Channel Definition Data channels are defined such that their accompanying application-level API can closely mirror the API for WebSockets, which implies bidirectional streams of data and a textual field called 'label' used to identify the meaning of the data channel. The realization of a data channel is a pair of one incoming stream and one outgoing SCTP stream having the same SCTP stream identifier. How these SCTP stream identifiers are selected is protocol and implementation dependent. This allows a bidirectional communication. Additionally, each data channel has the following properties in each direction:

• reliable or unreliable message transmission: In case of unreliable transmissions, the same level of unreliability is used. Note that, in SCTP, this is a property of an SCTP user message and not of an SCTP stream.
• in-order or out-of-order message delivery for message sent: Note that, in SCTP, this is a property of an SCTP user message and not of an SCTP stream.
• a priority, which is a 2-byte unsigned integer: These priorities MUST be interpreted as weighted-fair-queuing scheduling priorities per the definition of the corresponding stream scheduler supporting interleaving in . For use in WebRTC, the values used SHOULD be one of 128 ("below normal"), 256 ("normal"), 512 ("high"), or 1024 ("extra high").
• an optional label.
• an optional protocol.

Note that for a data channel being negotiated with the protocol specified in , all of the above properties are the same in both directions.

Opening a Data Channel Data channels can be opened by using negotiation within the SCTP association (called in-band negotiation) or out-of-band negotiation. Out-of-band negotiation is defined as any method that results in an agreement as to the parameters of a channel and the creation thereof. The details are out of scope of this document. Applications using data channels need to use the negotiation methods consistently on both endpoints. A simple protocol for in-band negotiation is specified in . When one side wants to open a channel using out-of-band negotiation, it picks a stream. Unless otherwise defined or negotiated, the streams are picked based on the DTLS role (the client picks even stream identifiers, and the server picks odd stream identifiers). However, the application is responsible for avoiding collisions with existing streams. If it attempts to reuse a stream that is part of an existing data channel, the addition MUST fail. In addition to choosing a stream, the application SHOULD also determine the options to be used for sending messages. The application MUST ensure in an application-specific manner that the application at the peer will also know the selected stream to be used, as well as the options for sending data from that side.

Transferring User Data on a Data Channel All data sent on a data channel in both directions MUST be sent over the underlying stream using the reliability defined when the data channel was opened, unless the options are changed or per-message options are specified by a higher level. The message orientation of SCTP is used to preserve the message boundaries of user messages. Therefore, senders MUST NOT put more than one application message into an SCTP user message. Unless the deprecated PPID-based fragmentation and reassembly is used, the sender MUST include exactly one application message in each SCTP user message. The SCTP Payload Protocol Identifiers (PPIDs) are used to signal the interpretation of the "payload data". The following PPIDs MUST be used (see ):

WebRTC String:

to identify a non-empty JavaScript string encoded in UTF-8.

WebRTC String Empty:

to identify an empty JavaScript string encoded in UTF-8.

WebRTC Binary:

to identify non-empty JavaScript binary data (ArrayBuffer, ArrayBufferView, or Blob).

WebRTC Binary Empty:

to identify empty JavaScript binary data (ArrayBuffer, ArrayBufferView, or Blob).

SCTP does not support the sending of empty user messages. Therefore, if an empty message has to be sent, the appropriate PPID (WebRTC String Empty or WebRTC Binary Empty) is used, and the SCTP user message of one zero byte is sent. When receiving an SCTP user message with one of these PPIDs, the receiver MUST ignore the SCTP user message and process it as an empty message. The usage of the PPIDs "WebRTC String Partial" and "WebRTC Binary Partial" is deprecated. They were used for a PPID-based fragmentation and reassembly of user messages belonging to reliable and ordered data channels. If a message with an unsupported PPID is received or some error condition related to the received message is detected by the receiver (for example, illegal ordering), the receiver SHOULD close the corresponding data channel. This implies in particular that extensions using additional PPIDs can't be used without prior negotiation. The SCTP base protocol specified in does not support the interleaving of user messages. Therefore, sending a large user message can monopolize the SCTP association. To overcome this limitation, defines an extension to support message interleaving, which SHOULD be used. As long as message interleaving is not supported, the sender SHOULD limit the maximum message size to 16 KB to avoid monopolization. It is recommended that the message size be kept within certain size bounds, as applications will not be able to support arbitrarily large single messages. This limit has to be negotiated, for example, by using . The sender SHOULD disable the Nagle algorithm (see ) to minimize the latency.

Closing a Data Channel Closing of a data channel MUST be signaled by resetting the corresponding outgoing streams . This means that if one side decides to close the data channel, it resets the corresponding outgoing stream. When the peer sees that an incoming stream was reset, it also resets its corresponding outgoing stream. Once this is completed, the data channel is closed. Resetting a stream sets the Stream Sequence Numbers (SSNs) of the stream back to 'zero' with a corresponding notification to the application layer that the reset has been performed. Streams are available for reuse after a reset has been performed. also guarantees that all the messages are delivered (or abandoned) before the stream is reset.

Security Considerations This document does not add any additional considerations to the ones given in and . It should be noted that a receiver must be prepared for a sender that tries to send arbitrarily large messages.

IANA Considerations This document uses six already registered SCTP Payload Protocol Identifiers (PPIDs): "DOMString Last", "Binary Data Partial", "Binary Data Last", "DOMString Partial", "WebRTC String Empty", and "WebRTC Binary Empty". creates the "SCTP Payload Protocol Identifiers" registry from which these identifiers were assigned. IANA has updated the reference of these six assignments to point to this document and changed the names of the first four PPIDs. The corresponding dates remain unchanged. The six assignments have been updated to read:

Value	SCTP PPID	Reference	Date
WebRTC String	51	RFC 8831	2013-09-20
WebRTC Binary Partial (deprecated)	52	RFC 8831	2013-09-20
WebRTC Binary	53	RFC 8831	2013-09-20
WebRTC String Partial (deprecated)	54	RFC 8831	2013-09-20
WebRTC String Empty	56	RFC 8831	2014-08-22
WebRTC Binary Empty	57	RFC 8831	2014-08-22

References Normative References In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. This memo describes an extension to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) that allows an SCTP endpoint to signal to its peer that it should move the cumulative ack point forward. When both sides of an SCTP association support this extension, it can be used by an SCTP implementation to provide partially reliable data transmission service to an upper layer protocol. This memo describes the protocol extensions, which consist of a new parameter for INIT and INIT ACK, and a new FORWARD TSN chunk type, and provides one example of a partially reliable service that can be provided to the upper layer via this mechanism. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document defines a padding chunk and a padding parameter and describes the required receiver side procedures. The padding chunk is used to pad a Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) packet to an arbitrary size. The padding parameter is used to pad an SCTP INIT chunk to an arbitrary size. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document describes a robust method for Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) that relies on TCP or some other Packetization Layer to probe an Internet path with progressively larger packets. This method is described as an extension to RFC 1191 and RFC 1981, which specify ICMP-based Path MTU Discovery for IP versions 4 and 6, respectively. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document obsoletes RFC 2960 and RFC 3309. It describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). SCTP is designed to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signaling messages over IP networks, but is capable of broader applications. SCTP is a reliable transport protocol operating on top of a connectionless packet network such as IP. It offers the following services to its users: -- acknowledged error-free non-duplicated transfer of user data, -- data fragmentation to conform to discovered path MTU size, -- sequenced delivery of user messages within multiple streams, with an option for order-of-arrival delivery of individual user messages, -- optional bundling of multiple user messages into a single SCTP packet, and -- network-level fault tolerance through supporting of multi-homing at either or both ends of an association. The design of SCTP includes appropriate congestion avoidance behavior and resistance to flooding and masquerade attacks. [STANDARDS-TRACK] A local host may have multiple points of attachment to the Internet, giving it a degree of fault tolerance from hardware failures. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) (RFC 4960) was developed to take full advantage of such a multi-homed host to provide a fast failover and association survivability in the face of such hardware failures. This document describes an extension to SCTP that will allow an SCTP stack to dynamically add an IP address to an SCTP association, dynamically delete an IP address from an SCTP association, and to request to set the primary address the peer will use when sending to an endpoint. [STANDARDS-TRACK] Many applications that use the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) want the ability to "reset" a stream. The intention of resetting a stream is to set the numbering sequence of the stream back to 'zero' with a corresponding notification to the application layer that the reset has been performed. Applications requiring this feature want it so that they can "reuse" streams for different purposes but still utilize the stream sequence number so that the application can track the message flows. Thus, without this feature, a new use of an old stream would result in message numbers greater than expected, unless there is a protocol mechanism to "reset the streams back to zero". This document also includes methods for resetting the transmission sequence numbers, adding additional streams, and resetting all stream sequence numbers. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document defines two additional policies for the Partially Reliable Stream Control Transmission Protocol (PR-SCTP) extension. These policies allow limitation of the number of retransmissions and prioritization of user messages for more efficient usage of the send buffer. RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications. This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a message-oriented transport protocol supporting arbitrarily large user messages. This document adds a new chunk to SCTP for carrying payload data. This allows a sender to interleave different user messages that would otherwise result in head-of-line blocking at the sender. The interleaving of user messages is required for WebRTC data channels. Whenever an SCTP sender is allowed to send user data, it may choose from multiple outgoing SCTP streams. Multiple ways for performing this selection, called stream schedulers, are defined in this document. A stream scheduler can choose to either implement, or not implement, user message interleaving. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport protocol originally defined to run on top of the network protocols IPv4 or IPv6. This document specifies how SCTP can be used on top of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. Using the encapsulation method described in this document, SCTP is unaware of the protocols being used below DTLS; hence, explicit IP addresses cannot be used in the SCTP control chunks. As a consequence, the SCTP associations carried over DTLS can only be single-homed. This document describes a protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal for UDP-based communication. This protocol is called Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). ICE makes use of the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) protocol and its extension, Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN). This document obsoletes RFC 5245. Informative References This RFC is an official specification for the Internet community. It incorporates by reference, amends, corrects, and supplements the primary protocol standards documents relating to hosts. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document specifies Version 1.0 of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. The DTLS protocol provides communications privacy for datagram protocols. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. The DTLS protocol is based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and provides equivalent security guarantees. Datagram semantics of the underlying transport are preserved by the DTLS protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK] Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) is a protocol that serves as a tool for other protocols in dealing with Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal. It can be used by an endpoint to determine the IP address and port allocated to it by a NAT. It can also be used to check connectivity between two endpoints, and as a keep-alive protocol to maintain NAT bindings. STUN works with many existing NATs, and does not require any special behavior from them. STUN is not a NAT traversal solution by itself. Rather, it is a tool to be used in the context of a NAT traversal solution. This is an important change from the previous version of this specification (RFC 3489), which presented STUN as a complete solution. This document obsoletes RFC 3489. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document describes a Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) extension to establish keys for Secure RTP (SRTP) and Secure RTP Control Protocol (SRTCP) flows. DTLS keying happens on the media path, independent of any out-of-band signalling channel present. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document describes the usage of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol over the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). DTLS over SCTP provides communications privacy for applications that use SCTP as their transport protocol and allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping and detect tampering or message forgery. Applications using DTLS over SCTP can use almost all transport features provided by SCTP and its extensions. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document specifies version 1.2 of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. The DTLS protocol provides communications privacy for datagram protocols. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. The DTLS protocol is based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and provides equivalent security guarantees. Datagram semantics of the underlying transport are preserved by the DTLS protocol. This document updates DTLS 1.0 to work with TLS version 1.2. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document describes a simple method of encapsulating Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) packets into UDP packets and its limitations. This allows the usage of SCTP in networks with legacy NATs that do not support SCTP. It can also be used to implement SCTP on hosts without directly accessing the IP layer, for example, implementing it as part of the application without requiring special privileges. Please note that this document only describes the functionality required within an SCTP stack to add on UDP encapsulation, providing only those mechanisms for two end-hosts to communicate with each other over UDP ports. In particular, it does not provide mechanisms to determine whether UDP encapsulation is being used by the peer, nor the mechanisms for determining which remote UDP port number can be used. These functions are out of scope for this document. This document covers only end-hosts and not tunneling (egress or ingress) endpoints. RTFM, Inc. Arm Limited Google, Inc. This document specifies Version 1.3 of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. DTLS 1.3 allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. The DTLS 1.3 protocol is intentionally based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 protocol and provides equivalent security guarantees with the exception of order protection/non-replayability. Datagram semantics of the underlying transport are preserved by the DTLS protocol. Work in Progress

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Authors' Addresses Mozilla

United States of America randell-ietf@jesup.org

Ericsson

Hirsalantie 11 02420 Jorvas Finland salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com

Münster University of Applied Sciences

Stegerwaldstrasse 39 48565 Steinfurt Germany tuexen@fh-muenster.de