Network Working Group R. Jesup
Internet-Draft Mozilla
Intended status: Standards Track S. Loreto
Expires: October 11, 2014 Ericsson
M. Tuexen
Muenster Univ. of Appl. Sciences
April 9, 2014
WebRTC Data Channels
draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-08.txt
Abstract
The Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers working group is charged
to provide protocol support for direct interactive rich communication
using audio, video, and data between two peers' web-browsers. This
document specifies the non-(S)RTP 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 allowing WEB-browsers to
exchange generic data from peer to peer.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Use Cases for Unreliable Data Channels . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Use Cases for Reliable Data Channels . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. SCTP over DTLS over UDP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. The Usage of SCTP for Data Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1. SCTP Protocol Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Association Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.3. SCTP Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.4. Channel Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.5. Opening a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.6. Transferring User Data on a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.7. Closing a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1. Introduction
Non-(S)RTP media data types in the context of WebRTC are handled by
using SCTP [RFC4960] encapsulated in DTLS [RFC6347].
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| SCTP |
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| DTLS |
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| ICE/UDP |
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