UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication
draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-udp-encaps-14

Approval announcement
Draft of message to be sent after approval:

Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'UDP Encapsulation of SCTP Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-udp-encaps-14.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'UDP Encapsulation of SCTP Packets for End-Host to End-Host
   Communication'
  (draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-udp-encaps-14.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Transport Area Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Martin Stiemerling.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-udp-encaps/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary
This document describes a simple method of encapsulating SCTP Packets
into UDP packets and its limitations. This allows the usage of SCTP
in networks with legacy NAT not supporting 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.

Working Group Summary
There was consensus to adopt this as a WG document alongside other drafts
in the Behave WG on NAT/NAPT traversal and agreement by the WG to publish
this.

Document Quality
This draft is implemented in FreeBSD and released in 9.1. It is also implemented in the Mac OS X kernel implementation (a port of the FreeBSD one), which is available from http://sctp.fh-muenster.de
and also available in the userland stack based on the FreeBSD kernel implementation. 

Personnel 
Gorry Fairhurst (gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk) is the document shepherd.
The responsible Area Director is Martin Stiemerling (martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu).

RFC Editor Note