Network Working Group P. Kyzivat Internet-Draft L. Xiao Intended status: Standards Track C. Groves Expires: December 15, 2013 Huawei June 13, 2013 CLUE Signaling draft-kyzivat-clue-signaling-03 Abstract This document specifies how signaling is conducted in the course of CLUE sessions. This includes how SIP/SDP signaling is applied to CLUE sessions as well as defining a CLUE-specific signaling protocol that complements SIP/SDP and supports negotiation of CLUE application level data. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. CLUE-Specific Signaling Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Protocol Versioning, Options & Extensions . . . . . . . . 4 3.1.1. Versioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1.2. Options and/or Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1.3. Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1.4. Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Acknowledging Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2.1. Explicit Acknowledgment of Each Message . . . . . . . 6 3.2.2. Piggybacking ACK on Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2.3. Reporting Message Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3. Stand-alone messages or deltas? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.4. Message Sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.4.1. Signaling Changes in Provider State . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4.2. Signaling Changes in Consumer State . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5. Message Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.1. CLUE Channel Lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.2. Channel Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.6. CLUE Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.6.1. ADVERTISEMENT Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.6.2. CONFIGURE Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.6.3. ACK Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.6.4. NAK Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.7. Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.8. Message Framing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.9. other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4. CLUE use of SDP O/A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.1. Encodings represented in SDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5. Coordination of CLUE protocol and SDP O/A . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.1. Independence of SDP and CLUE negotiation . . . . . . . . 18 5.2. Combined Protocol Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.2.1. Two CLUE-capable endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.2.2. A case with a non-CLUE-capable endpoint . . . . . . . 22 6. CLUE requirements on SDP O/A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7. SIP Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 2] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 8. Interoperation with Legacy SIP Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 24 9. CLUE over RTCWEB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 10. Open Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 11. What else? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 12. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 14. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 15. Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 16. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 16.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 16.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1. Introduction This document specifies how signaling is conducted in the course of CLUE sessions. This includes how SIP/SDP signaling is applied to CLUE sessions as well as defining a CLUE-specific signaling protocol that complements SIP/SDP and supports negotiation of CLUE application level data. [Yes, this is a dup of the abstract for now. Eventually it should say more.] 2. Terminology The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. This document draws liberally from the terminology defined in the CLUE Framework [I-D.ietf-clue-framework]. Other terms introduced here: CLUE Channel: A reliable, bidirectional, transport mechanism used to convey CLUE messages. A CLUE channel consists of one SCTP stream in each direction over a DTLS/SCTP session. 3. CLUE-Specific Signaling Protocol Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 3] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 The CLUE Framework [I-D.ietf-clue-framework] mentions a CLUE-specific protocol for the exchange of ADVERTISEMENT and CONFIGURE messages, but gives little detail. The Data Model [I-D.presta-clue-data-model-schema] specifies a model and XML representation for CLUE-related data, but doesn't currently specify exactly what data belongs in each message, or how messages are sequenced. This document provides the detail missing from those documents. 3.1. Protocol Versioning, Options & Extensions 3.1.1. Versioning There must be some provision for identifying incompatible protocol versions. NOTE: We probably don't want to have incompatible versions. Typically changes will be introduced in a backward compatible way. But a time may come when this isn't possible, and we should be prepared for that. This is more likely to occur before an RFC is published. While it is probably unwise to deploy a product based on a draft, there will certainly be prototypes developed for testing, and those tests may lead to a need for incompatible change. So whatever the mechanism is, it should be applicable to changes that occur from draft to draft, as well as after an RFC has been published. 3.1.2. Options and/or Extensions There must be some provision for dealing with optional-to-implement features in the specification, and/or for backward compatible extensions to the protocol. These are superficially different, but in practice they are more-or-less equivalent. To an implementation of the base protocol and some extensions, those extensions must be viewed as optional-to-implement features in peers. One decision is whether extensions may be implemented mix-and-match, or whether there is a sequence of extensions, and one extension may only be supported if all the prior extensions have been supported. 3.1.3. Negotiation Both version and options can be negotiated. Some mechanisms may work for both, while others are only appropriate for one or the other. Some possibilities: Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 4] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 o No negotiation at all. Instead, unrecognized syntax in certain "extension points" is to be ignored. If it is recognized, then a corresponding extension specification defines what to do. o Negotiate via the SIP signaling. o Negotiate as part of the O/A exchange that establishes the channel. (E.g. it is likely that individual channels of the SCTP association will be specified in SDP with a specific sub-protocol type. There could be a separate sub-protocol for each new version.) o Negotiate within the CLUE channel, via a special message exchange, before exchanging "normal" CLUE messages. o Declare versioning in every CLUE message. Define errors for unsupported versions and fallback to earlier versions. 3.1.4. Principles o CLUE SHOULD allow forwards and backwards compatibility through a version and extension mechanism. Forward compatibility allows a version of a protocol to communicate effectively with and interwork with future versions of the protocol. A version should not restrict the future protocol from providing extra capabilities. o Whenever possible backwards compatibility should be maintained. Backward compatibility rules will be defined to ensure that endpoints implementing future versions of CLUE will be able to send protocol messages of the previous versions which will be understood and fully processed by the remote endpoint. o Existing protocol elements should not be changed unless a protocol error needs to be corrected. o The semantics of existing elements and values should not be changed. o Established rules for formatting and encoding messages and elements should not be changed. o When information elements are found to be obsolete they can be marked as not used. However, the identifier for that information element will be marked as reserved. In that way it cannot be used in future versions. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 5] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 3.2. Acknowledging Messages The CLUE channel is reliable, so there is no need for acknowledgement to guarantee delivery. But there is still a need for application-to- application acknowledgement to report that the message has been received, parsed, and found to be of an acceptable format. One possibility is to introduce separate ACK and NAK messages. Another possibility is to add a confirmation element to each CLUE message, so that confirmation can be piggybacked on the basic messages. Some alternatives follow. [OTHER PROPOSALS WELCOME.] 3.2.1. Explicit Acknowledgment of Each Message The characteristics of this approach are: o There are separate request and response messages. (This is similar to SIP.) o Every request message expects exactly one response message. o Every request message carries a sequence number that identifies it. o Each end of the connection assigns sequential sequence numbers to the requests it sends. o Every response message carries the sequence number of the message to which it responds. o Responses are to be sent promptly upon the receipt of a request. (Needs more detail.) o Responses are either ACK or NAK. NAK responses also carry info describing the error. o Each CONFIGURE message is to be understood in the context of the most recent ACKed ADVERTISEMENT message. A CONFIGURE message may be rejected if there is an outstanding ADVERTISEMENT for which no response has been received. (Or it may be accepted if the advertiser is able to do so meaningfully.) 3.2.2. Piggybacking ACK on Requests The characteristics of this approach are: o Every message carries a sequence number that identifies it. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 6] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 o Each end of the connection assigns sequential sequence numbers to the messages it sends. o Every message carries the sequence number of the last message received and found valid. o If a message is received and found invalid, then a NAK message is sent that refers to it and indicates what is wrong with it. o If a valid message is received and a new message needs to be sent in response, then the responding message implicitly acknowledges the prior message. o If a valid message is received and there is no need to immediately send another message, then a NO-OP message is sent to acknowledge the received message. But a NO-OP message is never sent in response to a NO-OP message. o Each CONFIGURE message is to be understood in the context of the most recent *acknowledged* ADVERTISEMENT message. A CONFIGURE message may be rejected if it doesn't acknowledge the most recently sent ADVERTISEMENT. (Or it may be accepted if the advertiser is able to do so meaningfully.) The general format of every message is: o sequence # of this message o sequence # of most recently *received* and *valid* message o message type (ADVERTISEMENT, CONFIG, NO-OP, NAK) o body of the message, according to type (The exact representation is TBD - by XML experts.) There are loose ends to resolve here. In particular, how to acknowledge messages after NAKing one. 3.2.3. Reporting Message Errors There needs to be a mechanism to report errors with other messages. The details of form, content, and usage still need to be specified, and need to be tuned to the details of the protocol. This could use distinct messages or be incorporated into the other messages. Errors this message must be able to report include: Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 7] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 Syntax error in message: The message has been disregarded due to a syntax error detected at the message level. The message does not conform to the productions of messages in [Protocol Document]. Used when the message cannot be parsed. Sequencing Error: Sequence number has already been used, or is greater than the expected number. (Details of possible errors depend upon the specific sequence numbering mechanism.) Version not supported: This indicates a lack of support for the protocol version indicated in the message header of the message. In the case of the version number being indicated in the message header, the message contents are disregarded. Option not supported: This indicates a lack of support for the protocol option the used in the message. The message contents are disregarded. Unknown capture identity: The received Configure message contains an unknown capture identity not previously declared by an Advertisement. The message contents are disregarded. Invalid identity: The received message contains an invalid capture identity. For example a duplicated Capture scene identity or some other semantically incorrect usage. The message contents are disregarded. Invalid value: The received message contains an invalid parameter value. The value is not according to the protocol definition in [protocol document] or according the extension documentation. Missing element: The received message is missing an element. Certain parameters require multiple values, e.g. Point of capture requires X,Y,Z co-ordinates if one or more elements are missing this error code is used. Conflicting parameters or values: The received message contains multiple values that may not be used together. Invalid capture area: The received message defines a capture area that cannot be rendered in a sensible manner. For example the capture area does not define a quadrilateral region. Invalid point of line of capture: The indicated co-ordinate for the point on line of capture is invalid. For example: does not lie between the point of capture and the area of capture or it is the same as the point of capture. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 8] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 Invalid capture scene entry: The message contains an invalid capture scene entry. For example the capture scene entry contains more than one media type. Invalid Simultaneous Set: The simultaneous set contained in the message is invalid. For example the simultaneous set refers to an undefined capture set or does not match the specified capture scene entries. Invalid Configuration: The Configure message requests a configuration that the provider cannot support. Invalid Advertisement reference: The Configure message refers to an invalid Advertisement. The message refers-to/depends-upon out-of- date ADVERTISEMENT message or provides an invalid reference. 3.3. Stand-alone messages or deltas? Each message exchanged within a CLUE session could contain a complete description of the state it wishes to achieve. Or each message could describe just the changes that it wishes to make to the current state. Or the protocol could support both message forms. Which direction to pursue is TBD. [Paul: while this does need to be decided, it is fundamentally just an optimization. IMO it does not have major impact on the other parts of this document, so I would prefer to continue deferring it until we are so far along with the remainder of the document that we can no longer defer it.] 3.4. Message Sequencing There is a very basic introduction to this topic in section 4 (Overview) of the CLUE Framework [I-D.ietf-clue-framework]. After removing extraneous material it would look like: +-----------+ +-----------+ | Endpoint1 | | Endpoint2 | +----+------+ +-----+-----+ | | | ADVERTISEMENT 1 | |*********************************>| | ADVERTISEMENT 2 | |<*********************************| | | | CONFIGURE 1 | |<*********************************| | CONFIGURE 2 | Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 9] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 |*********************************>| | | But we need much more than this, to show multiple CONFIGUREs per ADVERTISEMENT, interleaving of ADVERTISEMENTs and CONFIGUREs in both directions, etc. Message sequencing needs to be described at two levels: o Basic sequencing of the CLUE messages themselves, without regard for the SIP/SDP signaling that may be going on at the same time. This is useful to cover the basic concepts. That should be covered in this section. It provides context for understanding the more detailed treatment later. This could include some simple state machines. o In reality there is a complex dependency between CLUE signaling and SDP Offer/Answer exchanges carried in SIP signaling. So there is a need to describe the valid ways in which these two forms of signaling interact. That is covered in Section 5. 3.4.1. Signaling Changes in Provider State Once a CLUE session has been established, ADVERTISEMENTs and CONFIGUREs exchanged, and media is flowing, a provider may experience a change in state that has an effect on what it wishes or is able to provide. In this case it may need to alter what it is sending and/or send a new ADVERTISEMENT. In some cases it will be necessary to alter what is being sent without first sending a new ADVERTISEMENT and waiting for a CONFIGURE conforming to it. The following is a non-exhaustive list of situations and recommended actions: o An advertised capture, that is not currently configured, is no longer available. To recover from this: Send a new ADVERTISEMENT that omits this capture. o An advertised capture, that has been configured, is no longer available. To recover from this: (1) stop transmitting the configured encoding of this capture. (2) Send a new ADVERTISEMENT that omits this capture. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 10] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 o The provider loses some resource and must reduce the frame rate, frame size, or resolution of a capture encoding. If the reduced values still fall within the advertised values for the capture then the change may be made without any further signaling. If the change must be outside the range of what was advertised, then the provider must cease transmitting the capture encoding. It then must send a new ADVERTISEMENT reflecting what it is now capable of delivering. o New or changed scenes or scene geometry. For instance, the addition of a new scene containing presentation captures. Also, an MCU may make significant changes in what it advertises as new endpoints join a conference. o [Add more] 3.4.2. Signaling Changes in Consumer State If the Consumer for some reason looses the CLUE state information how does it ask for an Advertisement from the provider? There could be multiple possibilities. A error code approach? However error codes would typically be associated with a NACK so it may not be good for a Config message. Maybe send a message which means "send me a complete update". An alternative may be to release the connection or just do new signaling to establish a new CLUE session. 3.5. Message Transport CLUE messages are transported over a bidirectional CLUE channel. In a two-party CLUE session, a CLUE channel connects the two endpoints. In a CLUE conference, each endpoint has a CLUE channel connecting it to an MCU. (In conferences with cascaded mixers [RFC4353], two MCUs will be connected by a CLUE channel.) 3.5.1. CLUE Channel Lifetime The transport mechanism used for CLUE messages is DTLS/SCTP as specified in [I-D.tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps] and [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp]. A CLUE channel consists of one SCTP stream in each direction over a DTLS/SCTP session. The mechanism for establishing the DTLS/SCTP session is described in Section 4. The CLUE channel will usually be offered during the initial SIP INVITE, and remain connected for the duration of the CLUE/SIP session. However this need not be the case. The CLUE channel may be Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 11] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 established mid-session after desire and capability for CLUE have been determined, and the CLUE channel may be dropped mid-call if the desire and/or capability to support it is lost. There may be cases when it becomes necessary to "reset" the CLUE channel. This by be as a result of an error on the underlying SCTP association, a need to change the endpoint address of the SCTP association, loss of CLUE protocol state, or something else TBD. The precise mechanisms used to determine when a reset is required, and how to accomplish it and return to a well defined state are TBS. 3.5.2. Channel Error Handling We will need to specify behavior in the face of transport errors that are so severe that they can't be managed via CLUE messaging within the CLUE channel. Some errors of this sort are: o Unable to establish the SCTP association after signaling it in SDP. o CLUE channel setup rejected by peer. o Error reported by transport while writing message to CLUE channel. o Error reported by transport while reading message from CLUE channel. o Timeout - overdue acknowledgement of a CLUE message. (Requirements for now soon a message must be responded to are TBD.) o Application fault. CLUE protocol state lost. The worst case is to drop the entire CLUE call. Another possibility is to fall back to legacy compatibility mode. Or perhaps a "reset" can be done on the protocol. E.g. this might be accomplished by sending a new O/A and establishing a replacement SCTP association. Or a new CLUE channel might be established within the existing SCTP association. 3.6. CLUE Messages Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 12] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 CLUE messages are encoded in XML. The Data Model [I-D.presta-clue-data-model-schema] defines many/most of the elements from which CLUE messages are composed. This document specifies an XML schema that contains an element definition for each CLUE message, with much of the content of those elements being drawn from the Data Model. 3.6.1. ADVERTISEMENT Message This message contains XML representations of captures, capture scenes, encoding groups, and simultaneous sets using the types defined for those in the Data Model [I-D.presta-clue-data-model-schema]. The XML definition for this is element in section Section 3.7 [[ Currently this does not contain any representation of encodings. It assumes those will be defined in SDP. ]] 3.6.2. CONFIGURE Message This message optionally contains an XML representations of captureEncodings using the type defined in the Data Model [I-D.presta-clue-data-model-schema]. A configure message with no captureEncodings indicates that no captures are requested. [[ It currently also contains a reference to the request number of the advertisement it is based upon. Whether this should be present, or if it should implicitly reference the most recently acknowledged advertisement is TBD. ]] The XML definition for this is element in section Section 3.7 3.6.3. ACK Message Need for, and details of, the ACK message are TBD. The XML element in section Section 3.7 could serve as the representation, either with no reason element, or a reason element with a special value. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 13] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 3.6.4. NAK Message Need for, and details of, the NACK message are TBD. The XML element in section Section 3.7 could serve to as the representation, with the reason element providing the details. Then the code value in the reason element should map to the errors in section Section 3.2.3. 3.7. Message Syntax [[ The following is a first cut at a schema for the actual messages in the clue protocol. It uses from the data model but not . Rather, it assumes that encodings are described in SDP as m-lines with a text identifier, and that the identifier has the same value as the encodingIDs embedded in the . If we stick with this the data model should be adjusted to agree, but until then it should "work". The SDP encoding of the identifier is TBD. Candidates are 'a=label:ID' and 'a=mid:ID'. ]] For now there only and are defined. More messages will be needed for acknowledgment. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 14] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 3.8. Message Framing Message framing is provided by the SCTP transport protocol. Each CLUE message is carried in one SCTP message. 3.9. other 4. CLUE use of SDP O/A The CLUE channel is usually offered in the first SIP O/A exchange between two parties in an intended CLUE session. The offer of the Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 16] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 CLUE channel is the indicator that this SIP session is proposing to establish a CLUE session. (However it is also acceptable to start with a non-CLUE SIP session and upgrade it to a CLUE session later.) The mechanism for negotiating a DTLS/SCTP connection is specified in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp]. We need to specify how to select the specific pair of SCTP streams that comprise the CLUE channel. Any specific usage/conventions required for coordination of SDP offers and answers with the CLUE messages should also be described here. (We have a draft [I-D.even-clue-sdp-clue-relation] that can contribute to this.) 4.1. Encodings represented in SDP [[ This is a straw horse, based on a proposal in [I-D.hansen-clue-sdp-interaction]. It remains unclear if this approach will work well, but we'll try it out and see how it develops. ]] Providers signal available encodings in SDP sent to the consumer, rather than in an Advertisement message. Each encoding is described by an SDP media section containing an identifier. Encoding groups contained in Advertisement messages reference encodings by including the SDP identifier. Configure messages also reference encodings via the identifier when selecting capture encodings. An encoding referenced by an encoding group can only be used to send/ receive media if SDP defining the corresponding identifier was defined in the most recent offer/answer exchange. However a consumer may configure a capture encoding using an advertised encoding that is not currently defined in SDP. In this case it can be used if/when the provider defines the label in a subsequent offer/answer exchange. This provides flexibility in coordinating CLUE messages and SDP, but all encodings referenced by an Advertisement SHOULD be specified as soon as possible. When the SDP definition of an encoding is not available, the consumer has insufficient information to decide whether to select it. [[ Using this approach the description of an encoding has all, and only, the descriptive capability provided by SDP. Also, for now this assumes a single capture per-m-line and no m-line bundling. We will want to relax those assumptions later. ]] Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 17] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 5. Coordination of CLUE protocol and SDP O/A This should include state machines and/or call flows. These will illustrate, and then provide normative rules for valid sequences of messages of both types. For instance this needs to show when SDP offers and answers must occur relative to an ADVERTISEMENT or CONFIGURE message that requires SDP changes. [THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS DOCUMENT!] 5.1. Independence of SDP and CLUE negotiation [This text is taken from [I-D.hansen-clue-sdp-interaction].] This draft proposes that CLUE messages and SDP messages should be independent: parameters in CLUE messages MAY exceed values negotiated in SDP, or may make reference to SDP contents not present in the most recent offer/answer exchange. Without this provision, SDP and CLUE messages become part of a single negotiation, and a change on either by either side may necessitate an exchange of the other message type. For instance, removing stream information from SDP might first necessitate sending a new CLUE message removing the references to this stream. The state machine required to ensure validity of negotiation will be complicated, and there will be a number of invalid states which must be avoided. This is further complicated by the fact that, even if both ends of a call obey the constraints to ensure validity, a middle box may choose to rewrite an SDP such that an invalid state is reached. Making the two message types independent significantly reduces the complexity of the state machines required. And with the message flows independent there is no way for an invalid state to occur when the two negotiations contain contradictory information. A cost of this is that endpoints will now need to deal with the fact that CLUE messages may contain parameters exceeding those negotiated in SDP, or referencing SDP content that does not exist. However, this is analogous to an issue endpoints already deal with in SDP. For instance, the sum of bandwidth parameters for various m-lines can exceed the overall session bandwidth. Not only is this not invalid, but it can be desirable, as it allows the sender to prioritise streams. What can be sent for any device is simply the intersection of what is permitted by the most recent SDP offer/answer, and the outcome of the CLUE negotiation; implementations should ignore references to entities in the other negotiation that do no exist. This does not mean that there will be no interaction between SDP and CLUE messaging - a device wishing to add a new stream may well need to update both their SDP and their CLUE negotiations. However, there Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 18] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 is no fixed order in which this must be done and no requirement for them to be updated in a particular order or fashion; it is left to the implementation to renegotiate the channels as it sees fit. If updates to both negotiations are required for a new stream to be added, then the new stream will not be available until both renegotiations are complete - the completion of the first renegotiation will have no effect. 5.2. Combined Protocol Use Cases [[ NOTE: this material is now out of date with the rest of the document. ]] 5.2.1. Two CLUE-capable endpoints This is the case where two CLUE-capable endpoints are willing to set up a CLUE telepresence session. In the following, a possible approach addressing the problem is illustrated. +----------+ +-----------+ | EP1 | | EP2 | | | | | +----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | | | | INVITE (BASIC SDP+COMEDIA) | |--------------------------------->| | | | | | 200 0K (BASIC SDP+COMEDIA)| |<---------------------------------| | | | | | ACK | |--------------------------------->| | | | | | | |<################################>| | ?? BASIC SDP MEDIA SESSION ?? | |<################################>| | | | | | CLUE CTRL CHANNEL SETUP | |<================================>| Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 19] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 | ... | |<================================>| | CLUE CTRL CHANNEL ESTABLISHED | |<================================>| | | | | | ADVERTISEMENT 1 | |*********************************>| | | | | | ADVERTISEMENT 2 | |<*********************************| | | | | | | | CONFIGURE 1 | |<*********************************| | | | | | CONFIGURE 2 | |*********************************>| | | | | | | | REINVITE (UPDATED SDP) | |--------------------------------->| | | | | | 200 0K (UPDATED SDP)| |<---------------------------------| | | | | | ACK | |--------------------------------->| | | |<################################>| | UPDATED SDP MEDIA SESSION | |<################################>| | | | | | | | | | | v v Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 20] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 First, endpoint EP1 sends to endpoint EP2 a SIP INVITE including in the SDP body the basilar audio and video capabilities ("BASIC SDP") and the information needed for opening a control channel to be used for CLUE protocol messages exchange, according to what is envisioned in the COMEDIA approach ("COMEDIA") for DTLS/SCTP channel [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp]. After the successful SIP O/A phase, EP1 and EP2 are able to exchange audio and video streams ("BASIC AUDIO AND VIDEO"). [RP: Is this channel needed at this point of the call flow?] [RP: which streams are sent on this channel in this moment?] Moreover, another effect of the above successful SIP O/A phase, is the opening of the control channel. After the setup phase, the channel is established and CLUE protocol messages can flow above it. CLUE protocol messages have not been formally defined yet. However, up to now there is a common agreement on their names and their main purposes, that should be following. CLUE protocol ADVERTISEMENT messages are used to better describe the media provider's available streams in order to make the media consumer able to reproduce them in a more realistic fashion, as it is the main purpose of a telepresence session. These messages are needed since it is not possible in an agile fashion to describe spatial information and several further metadata about media captures via SDP. In this document it is assumed that ADVERTISEMENT messages contain the full description of the sender's telepresence room in terms of available media capture and encoding capabilities. [RP: open issue - the mapping between what is described in the advertisement messages and media streams exchanged in the eventual basic SDP session already established] CLUE protocol CONFIGURE messages are used to let the media consumer indicate to the media provider which are the available streams it is interested in, so that the media provider can send to the media consumer what it desires. In the following, it is considered one of the possible call flow that can lead to the desired session configuration. EP1 sends the ADVERTISEMENT message to EP2 (ADVERTISEMENT 1), which replies with a CONFIGURE message (CONFIGURE 1). After receiving the CONFIGURE message, EP1 assumes the CLUE offer/answer negotiation it started is completed. EP1 then can issue a REINVITE to EP2 with an SDP body updated accordingly to the CLUE messages exchange. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 21] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 Similarly, EP2 sends its ADVERTISEMENT to EP1 (ADVERTISEMENT 2), which replies with a CONFIGURE (CONFIGURE 2). EP1 re-negotiates the media involved in the existent session via a SIP REINVITE message to EP2. The SDP body within the REINVITE message reflects the negotiation carried on by the CLUE message exchange. In the case represented in figure, EP2 builds the 200 OK response also according to the second CLUE O/A negotiation. 5.2.2. A case with a non-CLUE-capable endpoint In this example, one of the two involved endpoint (EP2) is not CLUE- capable, i.e., it is not able to use the CLUE protocol. +----------+ +-----------+ | EP1 | | EP2 | | | | | +----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | | | | INVITE (BASIC SDP+COMEDIA) | |--------------------------------->| | | | | | 200 0K (BASIC SDP + *NO* COMEDIA)| |<---------------------------------| | | | | | ACK | |--------------------------------->| | | | | | | |<################################>| | ?? BASIC SDP MEDIA SESSION ?? | |<################################>| | | | | | | | REINVITE (UPDATED SDP) | |--------------------------------->| | | | | | 200 0K (UPDATED SDP)| |<---------------------------------| Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 22] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 | | | | | ACK | |--------------------------------->| | | |<################################>| | UPDATED SDP MEDIA SESSION | |<################################>| | | | | | | | | | | v v Endpoint EP1 sends to endpoint EP2 a SIP INVITE including in the SDP body the basilar audio and video capabilities ("BASIC SDP") and the information needed for opening a control channel to be used for CLUE protocol messages exchange, as envisioned by the COMEDIA approach ("COMEDIA") for DTLS/SCTP channel [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp]. Since EP2 is not CLUE-capable, it answers with a 200 OK in which basic audio and video capabilities are accepted while the opening of the CLUE channel is rejected. From such a response, EP1 understands the peer is not CLUE-capable. In this example, EP1 re-negotiates the session according to a pre- determined bulk of media streams to be sent to non-CLUE-capable endpoints. 6. CLUE requirements on SDP O/A Any SDP extensions required to support CLUE signaling should be specified here. Then we will need to take action within MMUSIC to make those happen. This section should be empty and removed before this document becomes an RFC. NOTE: The RTP mapping document [I-D.even-clue-rtp-mapping] is also likely to call for SDP extensions. We will have to reconcile how to coordinate these two documents. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 23] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 7. SIP Signaling (Placeholder) This may be unremarkable. If so we can drop it. 8. Interoperation with Legacy SIP Devices This may just describe how the degenerate form of the general mechanisms work for legacy devices. Or it may describe special case handling that we mandate as part of CLUE. Or it may just discuss non-normative things for implementors should consider. 9. CLUE over RTCWEB We may want to rule this out of scope for now. But we should be thinking about this. 10. Open Issues Here are issues pertinent to signaling that need resolution. Resolution will probably result in changes somewhere in this document, but may also impact other documents. o While the preference is to multiplex multiple capture encodings over a single RTP session, this will not always be desirable or possible. The factors that prevent multiplexing may come from either the provider or the consumer. So the extent of multiplexing must be negotiated. The decision about how to multiplex affects the number and grouping of m-lines in the SDP. The endpoint of a CLUE session that sends an offer needs to know the mapping of capture encodings to m-lines for both sides. AFAIK this issue hasn't yet been considered at all. 11. What else? 12. Acknowledgements The team focusing on this draft consists of: Roni Even, Rob Hansen, Christer Holmberg, Paul Kyzivat, Simon Pietro-Romano, Roberta Presta. Christian Groves has contributed detailed comments and suggestions. The author list should be updated as people contribute substantial text to this document. 13. IANA Considerations TBD Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 24] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 14. Security Considerations TBD 15. Change History -03: * Added a syntax section with an XML schema for CLUE messages. This is a strawhorse, and is very incomplete, but it establishes a template for doing this based on elements defined in the data model. (Thanks to Roberta for help with this!) * Did some rewording to fit the syntax section in and reference it. * Did some relatively minor restructuring of the document to make it flow better in a logical way. -02: A bunch of revisions by pkyzivat: * Moved roberta's call flows to a more appropriate place in the document. * New section on versioning. * New section on NAK. * A couple of possible alternatives for message acknowledgment. * Some discussion of when/how to signal changes in provider state. * Some discussion about the handling of transport errors. * Added a change history section. These were developed by Lennard Xiao, Christian Groves and Paul, so added Lennard and Christian as authors. -01: Updated by roberta to include some sample call flows. -00: Initial version by pkyzivat. Established general outline for the document, and specified a few things thought to represent wg consensus. 16. References Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 25] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 16.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [I-D.ietf-clue-framework] Duckworth, M., Pepperell, A., and S. Wenger, "Framework for Telepresence Multi-Streams", draft-ietf-clue- framework-10 (work in progress), May 2013. [I-D.presta-clue-data-model-schema] Presta, R. and S. Romano, "An XML Schema for the CLUE data model", draft-presta-clue-data-model-schema-03 (work in progress), March 2013. [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp] Loreto, S. and G. Camarillo, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)-Based Media Transport in the Session Description Protocol (SDP)", draft-ietf-mmusic-sctp-sdp-03 (work in progress), January 2013. [I-D.tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps] Jesup, R., Loreto, S., Stewart, R., and M. Tuexen, "DTLS Encapsulation of SCTP Packets for RTCWEB", draft-tuexen- tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps-01 (work in progress), July 2012. 16.2. Informative References [RFC4353] Rosenberg, J., "A Framework for Conferencing with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 4353, February 2006. [I-D.even-clue-sdp-clue-relation] Even, R., "Signalling of CLUE and SDP offer/answer", draft-even-clue-sdp-clue-relation-01 (work in progress), October 2012. [I-D.even-clue-rtp-mapping] Even, R. and J. Lennox, "Mapping RTP streams to CLUE media captures", draft-even-clue-rtp-mapping-05 (work in progress), February 2013. [I-D.hansen-clue-sdp-interaction] Hansen, R., "SDP and CLUE message interactions", draft- hansen-clue-sdp-interaction-01 (work in progress), February 2013. Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 26] Internet-Draft CLUE Signaling June 2013 Authors' Addresses Paul Kyzivat Huawei Email: pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu Lennard Xiao Huawei Email: lennard.xiao@huawei.com Christian Groves Huawei Email: Christian.Groves@nteczone.com Kyzivat, et al. Expires December 15, 2013 [Page 27]