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TURN Revised and Modernized
charter-ietf-tram-00-03

The information below is for an older proposed charter
Document Proposed charter TURN Revised and Modernized WG (tram) Snapshot
Title TURN Revised and Modernized
Last updated 2014-01-29
State Start Chartering/Rechartering (Internal Steering Group/IAB Review)
WG State Proposed
IESG Responsible AD Martin Duke
Charter edit AD Spencer Dawkins
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charter-ietf-tram-00-03

Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) was published as RFC 5766 in April
2010. Until recently the protocol had seen rather limited deployment. This is
largely because its primary use case is as one of the NAT traversal methods of
the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) framework (RFC 5245), and ICE
itself was slow to achieve widespread adoption, as other mechanisms were already
being used by the VoIP industry. This situation has changed drastically as ICE,
and consequently TURN, are mandatory to implement in WebRTC, a set of
technologies developed at the IETF and W3C to standardize Real Time
Communication on the Web.

Together with the arrival of WebRTC, there is a renewed interest in TURN and
ICE, as evidenced by recent work updating the ICE framework (still in progress),
and standardizing the URIs used to access a STUN (RFC 7064) or TURN (RFC 7065)
server.

The goal of the TRAM Working Group is to consolidate the various initiatives to
update TURN and STUN to make them more suitable for the WebRTC environment.
The work will include the definition of DTLS as an additional transport,
authentication mechanisms, and extensions to TURN and STUN. The Working Group
will closely coordinate with the appropriate Working Groups, including RTCWEB,
MMUSIC, and HTTPBIS.