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[rtcweb] Question about support for RFC 6520 DTLS heartbeat

Bernard Aboba <bernard.aboba@gmail.com> Wed, 14 January 2015 00:58 UTC

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Subject: [rtcweb] Question about support for RFC 6520 DTLS heartbeat
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Looking through IETF RTCWEB WG drafts (
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-rtcweb) and dependencies, "DTLS
Heartbeat" RFC 6520 appears to be referenced only in
draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps Section 5, in the context of PMTU
discovery:

   If path MTU discovery is performed by the DTLS layer, the method
   described in [RFC4821 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4821>] MUST
be used.  For probe packets, the
   extension defined in [RFC6520
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6520>] MUST be used.


Is it correct to conclude that existing implementations do not use the DTLS
heartbeat other than for PMTU discovery?

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