RIST Relay Overview

This presentation will give an overview of the work being done in the VSF RIST Activity Group to address the problem of facilitating the secure communication between broadcast streaming devices behind firewalls, without the need for special configurations. The work is expected to be published as one of the TR-06-4 parts. The RIST Activity Group has completed the technical work on the upcoming TR-06-4 Part 3. The objective of this work is to create a common Specification for a relay device, responsible for facilitating the communication between two RIST endpoints behind firewalls that, for administrative reasons, cannot be configured to allow direct communication. This talk provides an overview of the RIST Relay functionality and protocols, including the support for symmetric and asymmetric firewalls, traffic replication, and protocol conversion, among other functions.