General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) over Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
RFC 6084
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) X. Fu
Request for Comments: 6084 C. Dickmann
Category: Experimental University of Goettingen
ISSN: 2070-1721 J. Crowcroft
University of Cambridge
January 2011
General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST)
over Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Abstract
The General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) protocol currently
uses TCP or Transport Layer Security (TLS) over TCP for Connection
mode operation. This document describes the usage of GIST over the
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and Datagram Transport
Layer Security (DTLS).
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for examination, experimental implementation, and
evaluation.
This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. GIST over SCTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Message Association Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.2. Protocol-Definition: Forwards-SCTP . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Effect on GIST State Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. PR-SCTP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4. API between GIST and NSLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Bit-Level Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. MA-Protocol-Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Application of GIST over SCTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Multihoming Support of SCTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. Streaming Support in SCTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. NAT Traversal Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Use of DTLS with GIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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