diff --git a/README b/README index 2d0b951..2c17a37 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,144 +1,140 @@ MSRPRelay --------- -Copyright (c) 2007-2011 AG Projects -http://ag-projects.com - -Author: Ruud Klaver - +Author: Ruud Klaver, Dan Pascu, Saul Ibarra Home page: http://msrprelay.org Description ----------- This software implements the MSRP relay specified by RFC 4976, Relay Extensions for the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP). Its main role is to help NAT traversal of Interactive Messaging and File Transfer sessions for SIP/MSRP endpoints located behind NAT. The software is licensed according to the GNU General Public License version 2. See LICENSE file for more details. Background ----------- A series of related instant messages between two or more parties can be viewed as part of a "message session", that is, a conversational exchange of messages with a definite beginning and end. This is in contrast to individual messages each sent independently. Messaging schemes that track only individual messages can be described as "page-mode" messaging, whereas messaging that is part of a "session" with a definite start and end is called "session-mode" messaging. Page-mode messaging is enabled in SIP via the SIP MESSAGE method, as defined in RFC 3428. Session-mode messaging has a number of benefits over page-mode messaging, however, such as explicit rendezvous, tighter integration with other media-types, direct client-to-client operation, and brokered privacy and security. Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) is a protocol for transmitting a series of related instant messages in the context of a session. Message sessions are treated like any other media stream when set up via a rendezvous or session creation protocol such as the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). MSRP Sessions are defined in RFC 4975. Features -------- The software supports different backend modules for SIP account credentials storage. At the moment, two backends are supported. * The database backend allows the MSRP Relay to consult a database through SQLObject. SQLObject supports several database types, including MySQL and SQlite. For a complete listing, see the SQLObject documentation. Out of the box, the software is designed to work in combinations with the subscriber database used by OpenSIPS (see http://opensips.org). * The second backend is an in-memory backend, which can be used for testing purposes. Username and password combinations can be specified in the configuration file. Multi-domain operation MSRPRelay is designed to operate in a multi-domain setup. The domains relate to the SIP domains served by a SIP Proxy/Registrar (e.g. example.com). In this setup MSRPRelay runs on a host that is referenced by a DNS A record (load balancing between several MSRP relays can be achieved by having this A record refer to more than one IP address). As an example this would be "msrprelay.example.com". MSRPRelay has one TLS certificate/key pair containing this hostname in the subject alternative name. For each SIP domain it serves, a DNS SRV record is provisioned. This could be for example: "_msrps._tcp.msrprelay.org -> msrprelay.example.com:2855". The client that wishes to reserve a session at a MSRPRelay active within its SIP domain then resolves the SRV record for its domain, connects to the relay using TLS and sends an AUTH request with its SIP domain as MSRP URI in the To-Path header, like such:" msrps://msrprelay.org;tcp". The MSRP relay then uses the host part of this MSRP URI as domain to authenticate the user in. To facilitate testing and remove the need to provision SRV records, taking the authentication domain from the To-Path MSRP URI can be disabled by manually specifying the domain in the configuration file. In this case the authenticating client should put the actual hostname of the MSRPRelay into the To-Path MSRP URI of an AUTH request. Note that this implies single domain operation. Multiple relays per domain For allowing multiple relays for each domain you must either: 1. Create multiple SRV DNS records pointing to multiple hostnames or 2. Create one SRV record that point to one hostname and add multiple A records for that hostname pointing to multiple IP addesses. When doing so it is important that each relay is configured with a hostname that is resolvable in the DNS to his own IP address. Session management The MSRPRelay was specifically designed to support end-to-end congestion control for MSRP sessions, in order to support high volume data transfers, such as file transfers. For this reason, session sharing between connections cannot be used and each TCP/TLS connection supports only one session. This means that the client will need to open a new connection for each session before doing an AUTH. Also the MSRP will initiate every time a new connection to other endpoints so that congestion control can be performed on a session basis. Installation ------------ See INSTALL file. Support ------- The project is developed and supported by AG Projects. The support is provided on a best-effort basis. "best-effort" means that we try to solve the bugs you report or help fix your problems as soon as we can, subject to available resources. To request support you must use the mailing list available at http://lists.ag-projects.com/mailman/listinfo/sipbeyondvoip For commercial support contact AG Projects http://ag-projects.com Credits ------- The development of MSRP relay has been sponsored by NLnet foundation http://nlnet.nl