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WebRTC Data Channel Protocol
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Authors Randell Jesup , Salvatore Loreto , Michael Tüxen
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draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol-01
RTCWeb Working Group                                            R. Jesup
Internet-Draft                                                   Mozilla
Intended status: Standards Track                               S. Loreto
Expires: December 11, 2012                                      Ericsson
                                                               M. Tuexen
                                        Muenster Univ. of Appl. Sciences
                                                            June 9, 2012

                      WebRTC Data Channel Protocol
                draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol-01.txt

Abstract

   The Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) working group is charged to
   provide protocols to support for direct interactive rich
   communication using audio, video, and data between two peers' web-
   browsers.  This document specifies an actual (minor) protocol for how
   the JS-layer dataChannel objects provide the data channels between
   the peers.

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   to this document.  Code Components extracted from this document must
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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   4.  Opening Handshake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   5.  Control Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     5.1.  DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     5.2.  DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
     5.3.  DATA_CHANNEL_ACK Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   6.  Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
     6.1.  Adding a Channel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
     6.2.  Closing a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
     6.3.  Sending and Receiving Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
   9.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
   10. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
     10.1. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
     10.2. Informational References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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1.  Introduction

   The Data Channel Protocol is designed to provide, in the WebRTC
   context [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview], a generic transport service
   allowing Web Browser to exchange generic data in a bidirectional peer
   to peer fashion.  As discussed in [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-data-channel] the
   protocol uses Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) [RFC4960]
   encapsulated on Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) [RFC6347] as
   described in [I-D.tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps] to benefit from
   their already standardized transport and security features.

2.  Conventions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

3.  Terminology

   This document uses the following terms:
   Association:  An SCTP association.
   Stream:  A unidirectional stream of an SCTP association.  It is
      uniquely identified by a stream identifier.
   Channel:  A bidirectional channel consisting of two SCTP streams.

4.  Opening Handshake

   The opening handshake is based on the multimedia session description
   exchange that happens between the browsers, typically through a Web
   Server acting as the signaling service.

   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp] defines the protocol identifier, 'SCTP/
   DTLS', and defines how to establish an SCTP association over DTLS
   using the Session Description Protocol (SDP).

   The SCTP association is created with the number of streams specified
   by the application, and if not specified, then it SHOULD default to
   16 streams.

   It is recommended that additional streams be available dynamically
   based on [RFC6525].

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5.  Control Messages

   Data Channel Control Messages are sent to manage opening
   bidirectional channels.  A DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST message is sent
   on the Stream that is intended to be used to send in that direction,
   and a response (DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE) is sent back on the
   Stream to be used for the other direction, with a
   reverse_direction_stream entry holding the Stream number the
   DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST was sent on.  This allows association of
   the Streams that define the bidirectional channel.  Finally, a
   DATA_CHANNEL_ACK is sent on the original Stream to complete the 3-way
   handshake.

   Errors are returned by setting the error field of the
   DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE message to a non-0 value.  In this case
   the original sender of DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST shall close the
   channel.

5.1.  DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST Message

   This message is sent initially on the stream used for user messages
   using the channel.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |  Message Type |  Channel Type |           Flags               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |     Reliability Parameter     |          Priority             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     \                                                               /
     |                             Label                             |
     /                                                               \
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Message Type: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined message type for the the
      DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST message.  The suggested value of this
      field for IANA is 0x00.
   Channel Type: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      This field specifies the type of the channel to be opened:
      DATA_CHANNEL_RELIABLE (0x00):  The channel provides a reliable bi-
         directional communication channel.
      DATA_CHANNEL_RELIABLE_STREAM (0x01):  TBD.

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      DATA_CHANNEL_UNRELIABLE (0x02):  TBD.
      DATA_CHANNEL_PARTIAL_RELIABLE_REXMIT (0x03):  The channel provides
         a partial reliable bi-directional Communication channel.  User
         messages will not be retransmitted more times than specified in
         the Reliability Parameter.
      DATA_CHANNEL_PARTIAL_RELIABLE_TIMED (0x04):  The channel provides
         a partial reliable bi-directional Communication channel.  User
         messages might not be transmitted or retransmitted after a
         specified life-time given in milli-seconds in the Reliability
         Parameter.  This life-time starts when providing the user
         message to the Javascript engine.
   Flags: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field contains the bitwise OR of the following flags:
      DATA_CHANNEL_FLAG_OUT_OF_ORDER_ALLOWED (0x0001):  If this flag is
         set, the channel does not need to preserve the message
         sequencing.
   Reliability Parameter: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field is ignored if a reliable channel is used.  If a partial
      reliable channel with limited number of retransmissions is used,
      this field specifies the number of retransmissions.  If a partial
      reliable channel with limited lifetime is used, this field
      specifies the maximum life-time in milli seconds.
   Priority: 2 bytes (integer)
      The priority of the channel.
   Label: Variable Length (sequence of characters)
      The name of the channel.

5.2.  DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE Message

   This message is sent in response to an DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST
   message on the stream used for user messages using the channel.
   Messages with the error field set to non-0 values can be sent on any
   stream; it is suggested that they be sent (if possible) on an unused
   stream.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |  Message Type |     Error     |           Flags               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |       Reverse Stream          |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Message Type: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined message type for the the
      DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE message.  The suggested value of this
      field for IANA is 0x01.

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   Error: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      TBD.
   Flags: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      TBD.
   Reverse Stream: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      The identifier for the incoming stream of the channel.  The
      corresponding DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST message was received on
      this stream.

5.3.  DATA_CHANNEL_ACK Message

   This message is sent in response to an DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE
   message on the stream used for user messages using the channel.
   Reception of this message tells the opener that the channel setup
   handshake is complete.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |  Message Type |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Message Type: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined message type for the the
      DATA_CHANNEL_ACK message.  The suggested value of this field for
      IANA is 0x02.

6.  Procedures

6.1.  Adding a Channel

   When one side wants to add a channel, it picks an unused outgoing
   stream; if no unused streams are available a negotiation to increase
   the number is done.  It then sends a DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST
   control message on the outgoing stream.

   When an DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST is received on an incoming stream,
   an unused outgoing stream is picked; if no unused streams are
   available a negotiation to increase the number is done.  A
   DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE message is sent on the outgoing stream,
   with the Reverse Stream field set to the incoming stream the
   DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST message came in on.

   When a DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE is received, the Reverse Stream
   value is matched against all pending DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST
   messages.  If no match can be found, the DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_RESPONSE
   message SHOULD be ignored.  If a match is found, then if the error

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   value is 0 a DATA_CHANNEL_ACK message is sent on the originator's
   outgoing Stream for the channel.  If the error value is non-zero, the
   open failed, and the originator SHOULD close down the originally-
   selected outgoing stream and notify the application.

   The channel_type and reliability_parameters fields of the
   DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN_REQUEST message MUST be used to set up the reverse
   side of the Data Channel so that both directions use the same
   options.  So both directions are either reliable or use the PR-SCTP
   extension defined in [RFC3758] using the same policy and parameter.

6.2.  Closing a Channel

   Data Channels shall be closed by resetting the outgoing stream If an
   incoming stream is reset by the peer, an corresponding outgoing
   stream reset SHOULD be issued.  If both streams of a channel are
   reset, the channel is closed and the streams are available for reuse
   for new channel opens.

6.3.  Sending and Receiving Data

   Data shall be sent using PPID's other than the Data Channel Control
   PPID.  These PPID's should be registered with IANA via (TBD).  The
   meaning of these data PPIDs and the format of the data shall be
   specific to the usage of this protocol, and typically shall be
   provided to the higher layers to allow proper decoding of the data.

   For WebRTC, data PPID's for DOMStrings and binary data blobs shall be
   created.

   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.

   Data may be sent before the 3-way handshake is complete; if so it
   must be sent with in-order delivery set in order to avoid race
   conditions cause by a handshake message being lost.  This is an
   exception to the requirement to send all data using the channel
   reliability settings.

   It is recommended that message size be kept within certain bounds
   (TBD).

7.  Security Considerations

   To be done.

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8.  IANA Considerations

   This document also defines three new SCTP Payload Protocol
   Identifiers (PPIDs).  RFC 4960 [RFC4960] creates the registry from
   which these identifiers have been assigned.  The following values
   have been reserved:
   WebRTC Control -  #To Be Assigned
   DOMString -  #To Be Assigned
   Binary Data -  #To Be Assigned

9.  Acknowledgments

   The authors wish to thank ... for there invaluable comments.

10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3758]  Stewart, R., Ramalho, M., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., and P.
              Conrad, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
              Partial Reliability Extension", RFC 3758, May 2004.

   [RFC4960]  Stewart, R., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol",
              RFC 4960, September 2007.

   [RFC6347]  Rescorla, E. and N. Modadugu, "Datagram Transport Layer
              Security Version 1.2", RFC 6347, January 2012.

   [RFC6525]  Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., and P. Lei, "Stream Control
              Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Reconfiguration",
              RFC 6525, February 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp]
              Loreto, S. and G. Camarillo, "Stream Control Transmission
              Protocol (SCTP)-Based Media Transport in the Session
              Description Protocol (SDP)", draft-ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp-01
              (work in progress), March 2012.

   [I-D.tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps]
              Jesup, R., Loreto, S., Stewart, R., and M. Tuexen, "DTLS
              Encapsulation of SCTP Packets for RTCWEB",
              draft-tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps-00 (work in progress),
              March 2012.

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10.2.  Informational References

   [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview]
              Alvestrand, H., "Overview: Real Time Protocols for Brower-
              based Applications", draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-03 (work
              in progress), March 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-data-channel]
              Jesup, R., Loreto, S., and M. Tuexen, "RTCWeb Datagram
              Connection", draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-00 (work in
              progress), March 2012.

Authors' Addresses

   Randell Jesup
   Mozilla
   US

   Email: randell-ietf@jesup.org

   Salvatore Loreto
   Ericsson
   Hirsalantie 11
   Jorvas  02420
   FI

   Email: salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com

   Michael Tuexen
   Muenster University of Applied Sciences
   Stegerwaldstrasse 39
   Steinfurt  48565
   DE

   Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de

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