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[AVT] RE: [BEHAVE] RE: Moving draft-marjou-behave-app-rtp-keepalive to AVT



> On 2007-6-1, at 21:09, ext Dan Wing wrote:
> > We need a document that consolidates NAT keepalive mechanisms for
> > UDP-based protocols, most notably RTP (and, to a lesser extent,
> > SIP).  Currently this is spread in various documents and there
> > is no consolidated guidance to implementtors on the strength
> > or weakness of various approaches.
> 
> I'm wondering if it'd make sense to add this guidance as a 
> section in  
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-guidelines?

I agree "send periodic UDP traffic" would be good in that
document.  REQ-6 of draft-ford-behave-app-05 may provide the 
beginnings of some useful text (CC'ing the authors of that 
document).

As with all applications on today's Internet, an RTP 
application needs to be robust and able to deal with whatever 
is sent to it, so perhaps you're right -- an application-
specific keepalive document may well be overly specific and
we should, rather, document what any UDP-based application
should do to prevent middleboxes (such as NATs) from 
clobbering a flow.

-d

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