The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Best Practices for Securing RTP Media Signaled with SIP' (draft-ietf-sipbrandy-rtpsec-08.txt) as Best Current Practice
This document is the product of the SIP Best-practice Recommendations Against Network Dangers to privacY Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adam Roach, Alexey Melnikov and Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sipbrandy-rtpsec/ Technical Summary: Although the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) includes a suite of security services that has been expanded by numerous specifications over the years, there is no single place that explains how to use SIP to establish confidential media sessions. Additionally, existing mechanisms have some feature gaps that need to be identified and resolved in order for them to address the pervasive monitoring threat model. This specification describes best practices for negotiating confidential media with SIP, including both comprehensive protection solutions which bind the media to SIP-layer identities as well as opportunistic security solutions. Working Group Summary: There is consensus in the WG around this document. Document Quality: While parts of the specification have been implemented, we are not aware of any implementation that implements all of it. In fact, the goal with publishing this RFC is to get more implementations out there. Personnel: Gonzalo Camarillo is the Document Shepherd. Ben Campbell is the responsible AD.
