AVT Working Group                                                D. Wing
Internet-Draft                                                     Cisco
Updates:  4568, 3711                                      April 20, 2010
(if approved)
Intended status:  Standards Track
Expires:  October 22, 2010


                 Policy for Registering SRTP Transforms
                    draft-ietf-avt-register-srtp-02

Abstract

   IETF procedure requires country-specific cryptographic transforms to
   be Informational RFCs.  This document allows such Informational RFCs
   to be used by SRTP and SRTP Security Descriptions.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Update to RFC3711 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   3.  Update to RFC4568 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   6.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4































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1.  Introduction

   It is desirable to extend Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP
   [RFC3711]) and its keying mechanisms to support country-specific
   cryptographic transforms.  This document resolves a clash between
   IETF procedure and existing RFCs.  IETF procedure requires that
   cryptographic transforms not intended for deployment on the Internet
   be published as Informational RFCs (Section 4.2 of [RFC2026]).
   However, existing documents require extensions to SRTP and extensions
   to SRTP keying to be published as Standards-Track RFCs.

   This document resolves this clash by allowing Informational RFCs to
   register new cryptographic transforms.


2.  Update to RFC3711

   This document updates Section 6 and Section 12 of [RFC3711], which
   currently require a standards track RFC to define a new SRTP
   transform.  After publication of this document, new SRTP transforms
   can be defined using "IETF Review" policy of [RFC5226].


3.  Update to RFC4568

   This document updates Section 10.3.2.1 of [RFC4568] to change the
   requirements to add a new crypto suite to the IANA registry "SRTP
   Crypto Suite Registrations" which currently requires Standards
   Action.  After publication of this document, new SRTP crypto suite
   registrations are allocated using the "IETF Review" policy of
   [RFC5226], and the "SRTP Crypto Suite Registrations" table should
   also reference [RFCXXXX].

      [RFC Editor, IANA:  RFCXXXX should be replaced by the number for
      this RFC.]


4.  Security Considerations

   This specification makes it easier for new cryptographic transforms
   to be used with SRTP.  However, this specification does not lift the
   requirement that cryptographic transforms are subject to IETF Review
   [RFC5226].


5.  IANA Considerations

   Please see Section 3.



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6.  Acknowledgements

   Thanks to Roni Even for guidance on this document.  Thanks to Carlos
   Pignataro and Brian Weis and for their review comments.

   This document was produced using version e1-dwing of XML2RFC.


7.  References

7.1.  Normative References

   [RFC3711]  Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K.
              Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)",
              RFC 3711, March 2004.

   [RFC4568]  Andreasen, F., Baugher, M., and D. Wing, "Session
              Description Protocol (SDP) Security Descriptions for Media
              Streams", RFC 4568, July 2006.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

7.2.  Informative References

   [RFC2026]  Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
              3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.


Author's Address

   Dan Wing
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA  95134
   USA

   Email:  dwing@cisco.com












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