draft-hancke-webrtc-sped

STUN Protocol for Embedding DTLS (SPED)

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WebRTC setup normally serializes ICE and DTLS, adding at least one extra round trip before secure media can flow. This document defines the STUN Protocol for Embedding DTLS (SPED), which carries DTLS handshake data and acknowledgements inside STUN Binding Requests and Responses. SPED allows ICE and DTLS to proceed in parallel, improves setup behavior under loss, and remains backward compatible with existing ICE processing.