The IESG has received a request from the SIP Best-practice Recommendations Against Network Dangers to privacY WG (sipbrandy) to consider the following document: - 'An Opportunistic Approach for Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (OSRTP)' <draft-ietf-sipbrandy-osrtp-09.txt> as Informational RFC
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2019-05-16. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Opportunistic Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (OSRTP) is an implementation of the Opportunistic Security mechanism, as defined in RFC 7435, applied to Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). OSRTP allows encrypted media to be used in environments where support for encryption is not known in advance, and not required. OSRTP does not require SDP extensions or features and is fully backwards compatible with existing implementations using encrypted and authenticated media and implementations that do not encrypt or authenticate media packets. OSRTP is not specific to any key management technique for SRTP. OSRTP is a transitional approach useful for migrating existing deployments of real-time communications to a fully encrypted and authenticated state. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sipbrandy-osrtp/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sipbrandy-osrtp/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
