Capwap Mailing List: FW: Issue 185: DTLS Session Resumption is optional

[Scott Kelly (skelly]

 meant to copy the list...

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Kelly 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:25 AM
To: 'Pasi.Eronen [at] nokia.com'
Subject: RE: Issue 185: DTLS Session Resumption is optional

Pasi.Eronen wrote:
> Scott Kelly wrote:
> 
> > Suggesting slightly revised text:
> > 
> > "Session resumption is typically used to establish the DTLS session
> > used for the data channel. Since the data channel uses 
> different port
> > numbers than the control channel, the DTLS implementation on the WTP
> > MUST provide an interface that allows the CAPWAP module to request
> > session resumption despite the use of the different port numbers 
> > (TLS implementations usually attempt session resumption only when
> > connecting to the same IP address and port number)."
> > 
> > Pat may want to further wordsmith this to match the surrounding text
> > (which I don't have in front of me just now).
> 
> Yes, this reads better than my attempt (where wording got complex
> because I tried to say that session resumption can be attempted, but
> it's just an attempt). Perhaps we could just add "Note that session 
> resumption is not guaranteed to occur, and a full DTLS handshake 
> may occur instead" to the end?

Okay.