Proto write up by Magnus Westerlund for
Guidelines for the use of Variable Bit Rate Audio with Secure RTP
draft-ietf-avtcore-srtp-vbr-audio-03
with the intended publication as BCP
(1.a) Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Has the
Document Shepherd personally reviewed this version of the
document and, in particular, does he or she believe this
version is ready for forwarding to the IESG for publication?
Magnus Westerlund is Shepherd and has read this version (03) of the
document and believe it is ready for publication as BCP.
(1.b) Has the document had adequate review both from key WG members
and from key non-WG members? Does the Document Shepherd have
any concerns about the depth or breadth of the reviews that
have been performed?
Yes, the review has been adequate. Both the transport and security people
active in the WG has reviewed it.
(1.c) Does the Document Shepherd have concerns that the document
needs more review from a particular or broader perspective,
e.g., security, operational complexity, someone familiar with
AAA, internationalization or XML?
No.
(1.d) Does the Document Shepherd have any specific concerns or
issues with this document that the Responsible Area Director
and/or the IESG should be aware of? For example, perhaps he
or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of the document, or
has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated
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concerns here. Has an IPR disclosure related to this document
been filed? If so, please include a reference to the
disclosure and summarize the WG discussion and conclusion on
this issue.
No.
(1.e) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it
represent the strong concurrence of a few individuals, with
others being silent, or does the WG as a whole understand and
agree with it?
It is a strong consensus from relatively few inviduals. But that give the Shepherd
no significant concern.
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No.
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met all formal review criteria it needs to, such as the MIB
Doctor, media type and URI type reviews?
Yes the document has been ID-nits checked and the Checklist walked through.
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so, list these downward references to support the Area
Director in the Last Call procedure for them [RFC3967].
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can appoint the needed Expert during the IESG Evaluation?
No IANA actions and that is written.
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(1.k) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document
Announcement Write-Up. Please provide such a Document
Announcement Write-Up? Recent examples can be found in the
"Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval
announcement contains the following sections:
Technical Summary
This memo discusses potential security issues that arise when using variable bit
rate audio with the secure RTP profile. When using SRTP with voice streams
compressed using variable bit rate (VBR) codecs, the length of the compressed
packets will depend on the characteristics of the speech signal. This
variation in packet size will leak a small amount of information about the
contents of the speech signal. Guidelines to mitigate these issues are
suggested.
Working Group Summary
There was early on significant debate on how big a security issue
this problem really was. But it was agreed on the need to document
the issue and how the issue can be mitigated. Since then there has
been good consensus on the document.
Document Quality
This document has gotten reasonable review from people with both
RTP and Security focus. The quality of the document is good.