I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other last call comments. This document discusses how to negotiate the usage of keep-alive messages using a new SIP "keep" Via header field. The document appears to be well worked out and the security considerations seem to be adequate. I spotted to mostly editorial nits in the security considerations: a) [...] This specification does not specify a connection reuse mechanism, and it does it address security issues related to connection reuse. [...] s/it does it/it does not/ b) [...] They do not instruct the enity to place a value in a "keep" parameter of any request it forwards. [...] s/enity/entity/ /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 < http://www.jacobs-university.de/ >