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+Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Begen
+Request for Comments: 7198 Cisco
+Category: Standards Track C. Perkins
+ISSN: 2070-1721 University of Glasgow
+ April 2014
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+ Duplicating RTP Streams
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+Abstract
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+ Packet loss is undesirable for real-time multimedia sessions but can
+ occur due to a variety of reasons including unplanned network
+ outages. In unicast transmissions, recovering from such an outage
+ can be difficult depending on the outage duration, due to the
+ potentially large number of missing packets. In multicast
+ transmissions, recovery is even more challenging as many receivers
+ could be impacted by the outage. For this challenge, one solution
+ that does not incur unbounded delay is to duplicate the packets and
+ send them in separate redundant streams, provided that the underlying
+ network satisfies certain requirements. This document explains how
+ Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) streams can be duplicated without
+ breaking RTP or RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) rules.
+
+Status of This Memo
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+ This is an Internet Standards Track document.
+
+ This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
+ (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
+ received public review and has been approved for publication by the
+ Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
+ Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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+ Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
+ and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
+ http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7198.
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+Copyright Notice
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+ Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
+ document authors. All rights reserved.
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+
+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 2. Terminology and Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 3. Use Cases for Dual Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 3.1. Temporal Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 3.2. Spatial Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 3.3. Dual Streaming over a Single Path or Multiple Paths . . . 5
+ 3.4. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 4. Use of RTP and RTCP with Temporal Redundancy . . . . . . . . 7
+ 4.1. RTCP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
+ 4.2. Signaling Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
+ 5. Use of RTP and RTCP with Spatial Redundancy . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 5.1. RTCP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 5.2. Signaling Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 6. Use of RTP and RTCP with Temporal and Spatial Redundancy . . 10
+ 7. Congestion Control Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
+ 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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+1. Introduction
+
+ The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) [RFC3550] is widely used today
+ for delivering IPTV traffic and other real-time multimedia sessions.
+ Many of these applications support very large numbers of receivers
+ and rely on intra-domain UDP/IP multicast for efficient distribution
+ of traffic within the network.
+
+ While this combination has proved successful, there does exist a
+ weakness. As [RFC2354] noted, packet loss is not avoidable. This
+ loss might be due to congestion; it might also be a result of an
+ unplanned outage caused by a flapping link, a link or interface
+ failure, a software bug, or a maintenance person accidentally cutting
+ the wrong fiber. Since UDP/IP flows do not provide any means for
+ detecting loss and retransmitting packets, it is left up to the RTP
+ layer and the applications to detect, and recover from, packet loss.
+
+ In a carefully managed network, congestion should not normally
+ happen; however, network outages can still happen due to the reasons
+ listed above. In such a managed network, one technique to recover
+ from packet loss without incurring unbounded delay is to duplicate
+ the packets and send them in separate redundant streams. As
+ described later in this document, the probability that two copies of
+ the same packet are lost in cases of non-congestive packet loss is
+ quite small.
+
+ Variations on this idea have been implemented and deployed today
+ [IC2011]. However, duplication of RTP streams without breaking the
+ RTP and RTCP functionality has not been documented properly. This
+ document discusses the most common use cases and explains how
+ duplication can be achieved for RTP streams in such use cases to
+ address the immediate market needs. In the future, if there will be
+ a different use case that is not covered by this document, a new
+ specification that explains how RTP duplication should be done in
+ such a scenario may be needed.
+
+ Stream duplication offers a simple way to protect media flows from
+ packet loss. It has a comparatively high overhead in terms of
+ bandwidth, since everything is sent twice, but with a low overhead in
+ terms of processing. It is also very predictable in its overheads.
+ Alternative approaches, for example, retransmission-based recovery
+ [RFC4588] or Forward Error Correction [RFC6363], may be suitable in
+ some other cases.
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+2. Terminology and Requirements Notation
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
+ "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
+ [RFC2119].
+
+3. Use Cases for Dual Streaming
+
+ Dual streaming refers to a technique that involves transmitting two
+ redundant RTP streams (the original plus its duplicate) of the same
+ content, with each stream capable of supporting the playback when
+ there is no packet loss. Therefore, adding an additional RTP stream
+ provides a protection against packet loss. The level of protection
+ depends on how the packets are sent and transmitted inside the
+ network.
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+ It is important to note that dual streaming can easily be extended to
+ support cases when more than two streams are desired. However, using
+ three or more streams is rare in practice, due to the high overhead
+ that it incurs and the little additional protection it provides.
+
+3.1. Temporal Redundancy
+
+ From a routing perspective, two streams are considered identical if
+ the following two IP header fields are the same (in addition to the
+ transport ports), since they will be both routed over the same path:
+
+ o IP Source Address
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+ o IP Destination Address
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+ Two routing-plane identical RTP streams might carry the same payload
+ but can use different Synchronization Sources (SSRCs) to
+ differentiate the RTP packets belonging to each stream. In the
+ context of dual RTP streaming, we assume that the sender duplicates
+ the RTP packets and sends them in separate RTP streams, each with a
+ unique SSRC. All the redundant streams are transmitted in the same
+ RTP session.
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+ For example, one main stream and its duplicate stream can be sent to
+ the same IP destination address and UDP destination port with a
+ certain delay between them [RFC7197]. The streams carry the same
+ payload in their respective RTP packets with identical sequence
+ numbers. This allows receivers (or other nodes responsible for gap
+ filling and duplicate suppression) to identify and suppress the
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+ duplicate packets, and subsequently produce a hopefully loss-free and
+ duplication-free output stream. This process is commonly called
+ "stream merging" or "de-duplication".
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+3.2. Spatial Redundancy
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+ An RTP source might be associated with multiple network interfaces,
+ allowing it to send two redundant streams from two separate source
+ addresses. Such streams can be routed over diverse or identical
+ paths, depending on the routing algorithm used inside the network.
+ At the receiving end, the node responsible for duplicate suppression
+ can look into various RTP header fields, for example, SSRC and
+ sequence number, to identify and suppress the duplicate packets.
+
+ If source-specific multicast (SSM) transport is used to carry such
+ redundant streams, there will be a separate SSM session for each
+ redundant stream since the streams are sourced from different
+ interfaces (i.e., IP addresses). Thus, the receiving host has to
+ join each SSM session separately.
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+ Alternatively, the destination host could also have multiple IP
+ addresses for an RTP source to send the redundant streams to.
+
+3.3. Dual Streaming over a Single Path or Multiple Paths
+
+ Having described the characteristics of the streams, one can reach
+ the following conclusions:
+
+ 1. When two routing-plane identical streams are used, the flow
+ labels will be the same. This makes it impractical to forward
+ the packets onto different paths. In order to minimize packet
+ loss, the packets belonging to one stream are often interleaved
+ with packets belonging to its duplicate stream, and with a delay,
+ so that if there is a packet loss, such a delay would allow the
+ same packet from the duplicate stream to reach the receiver
+ because the chances that the same packet is lost in transit again
+ are often small. This is what is also known as "time-shifted
+ redundancy", "temporal redundancy" or simply "delayed
+ duplication" [RFC7197] [IC2011]. This approach can be used with
+ both types of dual streaming, described in Sections 3.1 and 3.2.
+
+ 2. If the two streams have different IP headers, an additional
+ opportunity arises in that one is able to build a network, with
+ physically diverse paths, to deliver the two streams concurrently
+ to the intended receivers. This reduces the delay when packet
+ loss occurs and needs to be recovered. Additionally, it also
+ further reduces chances for packet loss. An unrecoverable loss
+ happens only when two network failures happen in such a way that
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+ the same packet is affected on both paths. This is referred to
+ as Spatial Diversity or Spatial Redundancy [IC2011]. The
+ techniques used to build diverse paths are beyond the scope of
+ this document.
+
+ Note that spatial redundancy often offers less delay in
+ recovering from packet loss, provided that the forwarding delay
+ of the network paths are more or less the same. (This is often
+ ensured through careful network design.) For both temporal and
+ spatial redundancy approaches, packet misordering might still
+ happen and needs to be handled using the sequence numbers of some
+ sort (e.g., RTP sequence numbers).
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+ Temporal and spatial redundancy deal with different patterns of
+ packet loss. The former helps with transient loss (within the
+ duplication window), while the latter helps with longer-term packet
+ loss that affects only one of the two redundant paths.
+
+ To summarize, dual streaming allows an application and a network to
+ work together to provide a near-zero-loss transport with a bounded or
+ minimum delay. The additional advantage includes a predictable
+ bandwidth overhead that is proportional to the minimum bandwidth
+ needed for the multimedia session, but independent of the number of
+ receivers experiencing a packet loss and requesting a retransmission.
+ For a survey and comparison of similar approaches, refer to [IC2011].
+
+3.4. Requirements
+
+ One of the following conditions is currently REQUIRED to hold in
+ applications using this specification:
+
+ o The original and duplicate RTP streams are carried (with their own
+ SSRCs) in the same "m" line. (There could be other RTP streams
+ listed in the same "m" line.)
+
+ o The original and duplicate RTP streams are carried in separate "m"
+ lines, and there is no other RTP stream listed in either "m" line.
+
+ When the original and duplicate RTP streams are carried in separate
+ "m" lines in a Session Description Protocol (SDP) description and if
+ the SDP description has one or more other RTP streams listed in
+ either "m" line, duplication grouping is not trivial and further
+ signaling will be needed; this is left for future standardization.
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+4. Use of RTP and RTCP with Temporal Redundancy
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+ To achieve temporal redundancy, the main and duplicate RTP streams
+ SHOULD be sent using the sample 5-tuple of transport protocol, source
+ and destination IP addresses, and source and destination transport
+ ports. Due to the possible presence of network address and port
+ translation (NAPT) devices, load balancers, or other middleboxes, use
+ of anything other than an identical 5-tuple and flow label might also
+ cause spatial redundancy (which might introduce an additional delay
+ due to the delta between the path delays), and so it is NOT
+ RECOMMENDED unless the path is known to be free of such middleboxes.
+
+ Since the main and duplicate RTP streams follow an identical path,
+ they are part of the same RTP session. Accordingly, the sender MUST
+ choose a different SSRC for the duplicate RTP stream than it chose
+ for the main RTP stream, following the rules in Section 8 of
+ [RFC3550].
+
+4.1. RTCP Considerations
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+ If RTCP is being sent for the main RTP stream, then the sender MUST
+ also generate RTCP for the duplicate RTP stream. The RTCP for the
+ duplicate RTP stream is generated exactly as if the duplicate RTP
+ stream were a regular media stream. The sender MUST NOT duplicate
+ the RTCP packets sent for the main RTP stream when sending the
+ duplicate stream; instead, it MUST generate new RTCP reports for the
+ duplicate stream. The sender MUST use the same RTCP CNAME in the
+ RTCP reports it sends for both streams, so that the receiver can
+ synchronize them.
+
+ The main and duplicate streams are conceptually synchronized using
+ the standard mechanism based on RTCP Sender Reports, deriving a
+ mapping between their timelines. However, the RTP timestamps and
+ sequence numbers MUST be identical in the main and duplicate streams,
+ making the mapping quite trivial.
+
+ Both the main and duplicate RTP streams, and their corresponding RTCP
+ reports, will be received. If RTCP is used, receivers MUST generate
+ RTCP reports for both the main and duplicate streams in the usual
+ way, treating them as entirely separate media streams.
+
+4.2. Signaling Considerations
+
+ Signaling is needed to allow the receiver to determine that an RTP
+ stream is a duplicate of another, rather than a separate stream that
+ needs to be rendered in parallel. There are two parts to this: an
+ SDP extension is needed in the offer/answer exchange to negotiate
+ support for temporal redundancy; and signaling is needed to indicate
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+ which stream is the duplicate. (The latter can be done in-band using
+ an RTCP extension or out-of-band in the SDP description.)
+
+ Out-of-band signaling is needed for both features. The SDP attribute
+ to signal duplication in the SDP offer/answer exchange ('duplication-
+ delay') is defined in [RFC7197]. The required SDP grouping semantics
+ are defined in [RFC7104].
+
+ In the following SDP example, a video stream is duplicated, and the
+ main and duplicate streams are transmitted in two separate SSRCs
+ (1000 and 1010):
+
+ v=0
+ o=ali 1122334455 1122334466 IN IP4 dup.example.com
+ s=Delayed Duplication
+ t=0 0
+ m=video 30000 RTP/AVP 100
+ c=IN IP4 233.252.0.1/127
+ a=source-filter:incl IN IP4 233.252.0.1 198.51.100.1
+ a=rtpmap:100 MP2T/90000
+ a=ssrc:1000 cname:ch1a@example.com
+ a=ssrc:1010 cname:ch1a@example.com
+ a=ssrc-group:DUP 1000 1010
+ a=duplication-delay:50
+ a=mid:Ch1
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+ Section 3.2 of [RFC7104] states that it is advisable that the SSRC
+ listed first in the "a=ssrc-group:" line (i.e., SSRC of 1000) is sent
+ first, with the other SSRC (i.e., SSRC of 1010) being the time-
+ delayed duplicate. This is not critical, however, and a receiving
+ host should size its playout buffer based on the 'duplication-delay'
+ attribute and play the stream that arrives first in preference, with
+ the other stream acting as a repair stream, irrespective of the order
+ in which they are signaled.
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+5. Use of RTP and RTCP with Spatial Redundancy
+
+ Assuming the network is structured appropriately, when using spatial
+ redundancy, the duplicate RTP stream is sent using a different source
+ and/or destination address/port pair. This will be a separate RTP
+ session from the session conveying the main RTP stream. Thus, the
+ SSRCs used for the main and duplicate streams MUST be chosen
+ randomly, following the rules in Section 8 of [RFC3550].
+ Accordingly, they will almost certainly not match each other. The
+ sender MUST, however, use the same RTCP CNAME for both the main and
+ duplicate streams. An "a=group:DUP" line or "a=ssrc-group:DUP" line
+ is used to indicate duplication.
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+ If RTCP is being sent for the main RTP stream, then the sender MUST
+ also generate RTCP for the duplicate RTP stream. The RTCP for the
+ duplicate RTP stream is generated exactly as if the duplicate RTP
+ stream were a regular media stream. The sender MUST NOT duplicate
+ the RTCP packets sent for the main RTP stream when sending the
+ duplicate stream; instead, it MUST generate new RTCP reports for the
+ duplicate stream. The sender MUST use the same RTCP CNAME in the
+ RTCP reports it sends for both streams, so that the receiver can
+ synchronize them.
+
+ The main and duplicate streams are conceptually synchronized using
+ the standard mechanism based on RTCP Sender Reports, deriving a
+ mapping between their timelines. However, the RTP timestamps and
+ sequence numbers MUST be identical in the main and duplicate streams,
+ making the mapping quite trivial.
+
+ Both the main and duplicate RTP streams, and their corresponding RTCP
+ reports, will be received. If RTCP is used, receivers MUST generate
+ RTCP reports for both the main and duplicate streams in the usual
+ way, treating them as entirely separate media streams.
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+5.2. Signaling Considerations
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+ The required SDP grouping semantics have been defined in [RFC7104].
+ In the following example, the redundant streams have different IP
+ destination addresses. The example shows the same UDP port number
+ and IP source address for each stream, but either or both could have
+ been different for the two streams.
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+ v=0
+ o=ali 1122334455 1122334466 IN IP4 dup.example.com
+ s=DUP Grouping Semantics
+ t=0 0
+ a=group:DUP S1a S1b
+ m=video 30000 RTP/AVP 100
+ c=IN IP4 233.252.0.1/127
+ a=source-filter:incl IN IP4 233.252.0.1 198.51.100.1
+ a=rtpmap:100 MP2T/90000
+ a=mid:S1a
+ m=video 30000 RTP/AVP 101
+ c=IN IP4 233.252.0.2/127
+ a=source-filter:incl IN IP4 233.252.0.2 198.51.100.1
+ a=rtpmap:101 MP2T/90000
+ a=mid:S1b
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+ This uses the same RTP/RTCP mechanisms from Sections 4 and 5, plus a
+ combination of signaling provided in each of these sections.
+
+7. Congestion Control Considerations
+
+ Duplicating RTP streams has several considerations in the context of
+ congestion control. First of all, RTP duplication MUST NOT be used
+ in cases where the primary cause of packet loss is congestion since
+ duplication can make congestion only worse. Furthermore, RTP
+ duplication SHOULD NOT be used where there is a risk of congestion
+ upon duplicating an RTP stream. Duplication is RECOMMENDED only to
+ be used for protection against network outages due to a temporary
+ link or network element failure and where it is known (e.g., through
+ explicit operator configuration) that there is sufficient network
+ capacity to carry the duplicated traffic. The capacity requirement
+ constrains the use of duplication to managed networks and makes it
+ unsuitable for use on unmanaged public networks.
+
+ It is essential that the nodes responsible for the duplication and
+ de-duplication are aware of the original stream's requirements and
+ the available capacity inside the network. If there is an adaptation
+ capability for the original stream, these nodes have to assume the
+ same adaptation capability for the duplicated stream, too. For
+ example, if the source doubles the bitrate for the original stream,
+ the bitrate of the duplicate stream will also be doubled.
+
+ Depending on where de-duplication takes place, there could be
+ different scenarios. When the duplication and de-duplication take
+ place inside the network before the ultimate endpoints that will
+ consume the RTP media, the whole process is transparent to these
+ endpoints. Thus, these endpoints will apply any congestion control,
+ if applicable, on the de-duplicated RTP stream. This output stream
+ will have fewer losses than either the original or duplicated stream
+ will have, and the endpoint will make congestion control decisions
+ accordingly. However, if de-duplication takes place at the ultimate
+ endpoint, this endpoint MUST consider the aggregate of the original
+ and duplicated RTP stream in any congestion control it wants to
+ apply. The endpoint will observe the losses in each stream
+ separately, and this information can be used to fine-tune the
+ duplication process. For example, the duplication interval can be
+ adjusted based on the duration of a common packet loss in both
+ streams. In these scenarios, the RTP Monitoring Framework [RFC6792]
+ can be used to monitor the duplicated streams in the same way an
+ ordinary RTP would be monitored.
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+8. Security Considerations
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+ The security considerations of [RFC3550], [RFC7104], [RFC7197], and
+ any RTP profiles and payload formats in use apply.
+
+ Duplication can be performed end-to-end, with the media sender
+ generating a duplicate RTP stream, and the receiver(s) performing de-
+ duplication. In such cases, if the original media stream is to be
+ authenticated (e.g., using Secure RTP (SRTP) [RFC3711]), then the
+ duplicate stream also needs to be authenticated, and duplicate
+ packets that fail the authentication check need to be discarded.
+
+ Stream duplication and de-duplication can also be performed by in-
+ network middleboxes. Such middleboxes will need to rewrite the RTP
+ SSRC such that the RTP packets in the duplicate stream have a
+ different SSRC to the original stream, and such middleboxes will need
+ to generate and respond to RTCP packets corresponding to the
+ duplicate stream. This sort of in-network duplication service has
+ the potential to act as an amplifier for denial-of-service attacks if
+ the attacker can cause attack traffic to be duplicated. To prevent
+ this, middleboxes providing the duplication service need to
+ authenticate the traffic to be duplicated as being from a legitimate
+ source, for example, using the SRTP profile [RFC3711]. This requires
+ the middlebox to be part of the security context of the media session
+ being duplicated, so it has access to the necessary keying material
+ for authentication. To do this, the middlebox will need to be privy
+ to the session setup signaling. Details of how that is done will
+ depend on the type of signaling used (SIP, Real Time Streaming
+ Protocol (RTSP), WebRTC, etc.), and is not specified here.
+
+ Similarly, to prevent packet injection attacks, a de-duplication
+ middlebox needs to authenticate original and duplicate streams, and
+ ought not use non-authenticated packets that are received. Again,
+ this requires the middlebox to be part of the security context and to
+ have access to the appropriate signaling and keying material.
+
+ The use of the encryption features of SRTP does not affect stream de-
+ duplication middleboxes, since the RTP headers are sent in the clear.
+
+9. Acknowledgments
+
+ Thanks to Magnus Westerlund for his suggestions.
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+10. References
+
+10.1. Normative References
+
+ [RFC3550] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V.
+ Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
+ Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003.
+
+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
+
+ [RFC7197] Begen, A., Cai, Y., and H. Ou, "Duplication Delay
+ Attribute in the Session Description Protocol", RFC 7197,
+ April 2014.
+
+ [RFC7104] Begen, A., Cai, Y., and H. Ou, "Duplication Grouping
+ Semantics in the Session Description Protocol", RFC 7104,
+ January 2014.
+
+ [RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K.
+ Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)",
+ RFC 3711, March 2004.
+
+10.2. Informative References
+
+ [RFC2354] Perkins, C. and O. Hodson, "Options for Repair of
+ Streaming Media", RFC 2354, June 1998.
+
+ [RFC4588] Rey, J., Leon, D., Miyazaki, A., Varsa, V., and R.
+ Hakenberg, "RTP Retransmission Payload Format", RFC 4588,
+ July 2006.
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+ [RFC6363] Watson, M., Begen, A., and V. Roca, "Forward Error
+ Correction (FEC) Framework", RFC 6363, October 2011.
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+ RTP Monitoring Framework", RFC 6792, November 2012.
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+ [IC2011] Evans, J., Begen, A., Greengrass, J., and C. Filsfils,
+ "Toward Lossless Video Transport", IEEE Internet
+ Computing, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 48-57, November 2011.
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+ Ali Begen
+ Cisco
+ 181 Bay Street
+ Toronto, ON M5J 2T3
+ Canada
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+ EMail: abegen@cisco.com
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+ Colin Perkins
+ University of Glasgow
+ School of Computing Science
+ Glasgow G12 8QQ
+ UK
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+ EMail: csp@csperkins.org
+ URI: http://csperkins.org/
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