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This + document describes a number of existing and proposed properties and + relationships among RTP sources and defines common terminology for + discussing protocol entities and their relationships. + +Status of This Memo + + This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is + published for informational purposes. + + 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). Not all documents + approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet + Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. + + 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/rfc7656. + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 1] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +Copyright Notice + + Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the + document authors. All rights reserved. + + This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal + Provisions Relating to IETF Documents + (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of + publication of this document. Please review these documents + carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect + to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must + include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of + the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as + described in the Simplified BSD License. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 2] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +Table of Contents + + 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 + 2. Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 + 2.1. Media Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 + 2.1.1. Physical Stimulus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 + 2.1.2. Media Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 + 2.1.3. Raw Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 + 2.1.4. Media Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 + 2.1.5. Source Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 + 2.1.6. Media Encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 + 2.1.7. Encoded Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 + 2.1.8. Dependent Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 + 2.1.9. Media Packetizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 + 2.1.10. RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 + 2.1.11. RTP-Based Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 + 2.1.12. Redundancy RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 + 2.1.13. RTP-Based Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 + 2.1.14. Secured RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 + 2.1.15. Media Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 + 2.1.16. Media Transport Sender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 + 2.1.17. Sent RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 + 2.1.18. Network Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 + 2.1.19. Transported RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 + 2.1.20. Media Transport Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 + 2.1.21. Received Secured RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 + 2.1.22. RTP-Based Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 + 2.1.23. Received RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 + 2.1.24. Received Redundancy RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . 19 + 2.1.25. RTP-Based Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 + 2.1.26. Repaired RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 + 2.1.27. Media Depacketizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 + 2.1.28. Received Encoded Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 + 2.1.29. Media Decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 + 2.1.30. Received Source Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 + 2.1.31. Media Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 + 2.1.32. Received Raw Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 + 2.1.33. Media Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 + 2.2. Communication Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 + 2.2.1. Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 + 2.2.2. RTP Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 + 2.2.3. Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 + 2.2.4. Multimedia Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 + 2.2.5. Communication Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 + 3. Concepts of Inter-Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 + 3.1. Synchronization Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 + 3.1.1. RTCP CNAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 + 3.1.2. Clock Source Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 3] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + 3.1.3. Implicitly via RtcMediaStream . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 + 3.1.4. Explicitly via SDP Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 + 3.2. Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 + 3.3. Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 + 3.4. RtcMediaStream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 + 3.5. Multi-Channel Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 + 3.6. Simulcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 + 3.7. Layered Multi-Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 + 3.8. RTP Stream Duplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 + 3.9. Redundancy Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 + 3.10. RTP Retransmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 + 3.11. Forward Error Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 + 3.12. RTP Stream Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 + 3.13. Multiple RTP Sessions over one Media Transport . . . . . 37 + 4. Mapping from Existing Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 + 4.1. Telepresence Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 + 4.1.1. Audio Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 + 4.1.2. Capture Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 + 4.1.3. Capture Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 + 4.1.4. Capture Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 + 4.1.5. Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 + 4.1.6. Individual Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 + 4.1.7. Media Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 + 4.1.8. Media Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 + 4.1.9. Media Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 + 4.1.10. Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 + 4.1.11. Video Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 + 4.2. Media Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 + 4.3. Media Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 + 4.4. Multimedia Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 + 4.5. Multimedia Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 + 4.6. Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 + 4.7. Multi-Session Transmission (MST) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 + 4.8. Recording Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.9. RtcMediaStream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.10. RtcMediaStreamTrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.11. RTP Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.12. RTP Sender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.13. RTP Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.14. Single-Session Transmission (SST) . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 + 4.15. SSRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 + 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 + 6. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 + Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 + Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 + Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 4] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +1. Introduction + + The existing taxonomy of sources in the Real-time Transport Protocol + (RTP) [RFC3550] has previously been regarded as confusing and + inconsistent. Consequently, a deep understanding of how the + different terms relate to each other becomes a real challenge. + Frequently cited examples of this confusion are (1) how different + protocols that make use of RTP use the same terms to signify + different things and (2) how the complexities addressed at one layer + are often glossed over or ignored at another. + + This document improves clarity by reviewing the semantics of various + aspects of sources in RTP. As an organizing mechanism, it approaches + this by describing various ways that RTP sources are transformed on + their way between sender and receiver, and how they can be grouped + and associated together. + + All non-specific references to ControLling mUltiple streams for + tElepresence (CLUE) in this document map to [CLUE-FRAME], and all + references to Web Real-time Communications (WebRTC) map to + [WEBRTC-OVERVIEW]. + +2. Concepts + + This section defines concepts that serve to identify and name various + transformations and streams in a given RTP usage. For each concept, + alternate definitions and usages that coexist today are listed along + with various characteristics that further describe the concept. + These concepts are divided into two categories: one is related to the + chain of streams and transformations that Media can be subject to, + and the other is for entities involved in the communication. + +2.1. Media Chain + + In the context of this document, media is a sequence of synthetic or + Physical Stimuli (Section 2.1.1) -- for example, sound waves, + photons, key strokes -- represented in digital form. Synthesized + media is typically generated directly in the digital domain. + + This section contains the concepts that can be involved in taking + media at a sender side and transporting it to a receiver, which may + recover a sequence of physical stimuli. This chain of concepts is of + two main types: streams and transformations. Streams are time-based + sequences of samples of the physical stimulus in various + representations, while transformations change the representation of + the streams in some way. + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 5] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + The below examples are basic ones, and it is important to keep in + mind that this conceptual model enables more complex usages. Some + will be further discussed in later sections of this document. In + general the following applies to this model: + + o A transformation may have zero or more inputs and one or more + outputs. + + o A stream is of some type, such as audio, video, real-time text, + etc. + + o A stream has one source transformation and one or more sink + transformations (with the exception of physical stimulus + (Section 2.1.1) that may lack source or sink transformation). + + o Streams can be forwarded from a transformation output to any + number of inputs on other transformations that support that type. + + o If the output of a transformation is sent to multiple + transformations, those streams will be identical; it takes a + transformation to make them different. + + o There are no formal limitations on how streams are connected to + transformations. + + It is also important to remember that this is a conceptual model. + Thus, real-world implementations may look different and have a + different structure. + + To provide a basic understanding of the relationships in the chain, + we first introduce the concepts for the sender side (Figure 1). This + covers physical stimuli until media packets are emitted onto the + network. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 6] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + Physical Stimulus + | + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Capture | + +----------------------+ + | + Raw Stream + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Source |<- Synchronization Timing + +----------------------+ + | + Source Stream + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Encoder | + +----------------------+ + | + Encoded Stream +------------+ + V | V + +----------------------+ | +----------------------+ + | Media Packetizer | | | RTP-Based Redundancy | + +----------------------+ | +----------------------+ + | | | + +-------------+ Redundancy RTP Stream + Source RTP Stream | + V V + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | RTP-Based Security | | RTP-Based Security | + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | | + Secured RTP Stream Secured Redundancy RTP Stream + V V + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | Media Transport | | Media Transport | + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + + Figure 1: Sender Side Concepts in the Media Chain + + In Figure 1, we have included a branched chain to cover the concepts + for using redundancy to improve the reliability of the transport. + The Media Transport concept is an aggregate that is decomposed in + Section 2.1.15. + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 7] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + In Figure 2, we review a receiver media chain matching the sender + side, to look at the inverse transformations and their attempts to + recover identical streams as in the sender chain, subject to what may + be lossy compression and imperfect media transport. Note that the + streams out of a reverse transformation, like the Source Stream out + of the Media Decoder, are in many cases not the same as the + corresponding ones on the sender side; thus, they are prefixed with a + "received" to denote a potentially modified version. The reason for + not being the same lies in the transformations that can be of + irreversible type. For example, lossy source coding in the Media + Encoder prevents the source stream out of the media decoder from + being the same as the one fed into the media encoder. Other reasons + include packet loss in the media transport transformation that even + RTP-based Repair, if used, fails to repair. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 8] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | Media Transport | | Media Transport | + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + Received | Received | Secured + Secured RTP Stream Redundancy RTP Stream + V V + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | RTP-Based Validation | | RTP-Based Validation | + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | | + Received RTP Stream Received Redundancy RTP Stream + | | + | +--------------------+ + V V + +----------------------+ + | RTP-Based Repair | + +----------------------+ + | + Repaired RTP Stream + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Depacketizer | + +----------------------+ + | + Received Encoded Stream + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Decoder | + +----------------------+ + | + Received Source Stream + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Sink |--> Synchronization Information + +----------------------+ + | + Received Raw Stream + V + +----------------------+ + | Media Render | + +----------------------+ + | + V + Physical Stimulus + + Figure 2: Receiver Side Concepts of the Media Chain + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 9] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.1. Physical Stimulus + + The physical stimulus is a physical event in the analog domain that + can be sampled and converted to digital form by an appropriate sensor + or transducer. This includes sound waves making up audio, photons in + a light field, or other excitations or interactions with sensors, + like keystrokes on a keyboard. + +2.1.2. Media Capture + + Media Capture is the process of transforming the analog physical + stimulus (Section 2.1.1) into digital media using an appropriate + sensor or transducer. The media capture performs a digital sampling + of the physical stimulus, usually periodically, and outputs this in + some representation as a Raw Stream (Section 2.1.3). This data is + considered "media", because it includes data that is periodically + sampled or made up of a set of timed asynchronous events. The media + capture is normally instantiated in some type of device, i.e., media + capture device. Examples of different types of media capturing + devices are digital cameras, microphones connected to A/D converters, + or keyboards. + + Characteristics: + + o A media capture is identified either by hardware/manufacturer ID + or via a session-scoped device identifier as mandated by the + application usage. + + o A media capture can generate an Encoded Stream (Section 2.1.7) if + the capture device supports such a configuration. + + o The nature of the media capture may impose constraints on the + clock handling in some of the subsequent steps. For example, many + audio or video capture devices are not completely free in + selecting the sample rate. + +2.1.3. Raw Stream + + A raw stream is the time progressing stream of digitally sampled + information, usually periodically sampled and provided by a media + capture (Section 2.1.2). A raw stream can also contain synthesized + media that may not require any explicit media capture, since it is + already in an appropriate digital form. + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 10] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.4. Media Source + + A Media Source is the logical source of a time progressing digital + media stream synchronized to a reference clock. This stream is + called a source stream (Section 2.1.5). This transformation takes + one or more raw streams (Section 2.1.3) and provides a source stream + as output. The output is synchronized with a reference clock + (Section 3.1), which can be as simple as a system local wall clock or + as complex as an NTP synchronized clock. + + The output can be of different types. One type is directly + associated with a particular media capture's raw stream. Others are + more conceptual sources, like an audio mix of multiple source streams + (Figure 3). Mixing multiple streams typically requires that the + input streams are possible to relate in time, meaning that they have + to be source streams (Section 2.1.5) rather than raw streams. In + Figure 3, the generated source stream is a mix of the three input + source streams. + + Source Source Source + Stream Stream Stream + | | | + V V V + +--------------------------+ + | Media Source |<-- Reference Clock + | Mixer | + +--------------------------+ + | + V + Source Stream + + Figure 3: Conceptual Media Source in the form of an Audio Mixer + + Another possible example of a conceptual media source is a video + surveillance switch, where the input is multiple source streams from + different cameras, and the output is one of those source streams + based on some selection criteria, such as round robin or some video + activity measure. + +2.1.5. Source Stream + + A source stream is a stream of digital samples that has been + synchronized with a reference clock and comes from a particular media + source (Section 2.1.4). + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 11] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.6. Media Encoder + + A media encoder is a transform that is responsible for encoding the + media data from a source stream (Section 2.1.5) into another + representation, usually more compact, that is output as an encoded + stream (Section 2.1.7). + + The media encoder step commonly includes pre-encoding + transformations, such as scaling, resampling, etc. The media encoder + can have a significant number of configuration options that affects + the properties of the encoded stream. This includes properties such + as codec, bitrate, start points for decoding, resolution, bandwidth, + or other fidelity affecting properties. + + Scalable media encoders need special attention as they produce + multiple outputs that are potentially of different types. As shown + in Figure 4, a scalable media encoder takes one input source stream + and encodes it into multiple output streams of two different types: + at least one encoded stream that is independently decodable and one + or more Dependent Streams (Section 2.1.8). Decoding requires at + least one encoded stream and zero or more dependent streams. A + dependent stream's dependency is one of the grouping relations this + document discusses further in Section 3.7. + + Source Stream + | + V + +--------------------------+ + | Scalable Media Encoder | + +--------------------------+ + | | ... | + V V V + Encoded Dependent Dependent + Stream Stream Stream + + Figure 4: Scalable Media Encoder Input and Outputs + + There are also other variants of encoders, like so-called Multiple + Description Coding (MDC). Such media encoders produce multiple + independent and thus individually decodable encoded streams. + However, (logically) combining multiple of these encoded streams into + a single Received Source Stream during decoding leads to an + improvement in perceptual reproduced quality when compared to + decoding a single encoded stream. + + Creating multiple encoded streams from the same source stream, where + the encoded streams are neither in a scalable nor in an MDC + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 12] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + relationship is commonly utilized in simulcast [SDP-SIMULCAST] + environments. + +2.1.7. Encoded Stream + + A stream of time synchronized encoded media that can be independently + decoded. + + Due to temporal dependencies, an encoded stream may have limitations + in where decoding can be started. These entry points, for example, + Intra frames from a video encoder, may require identification and + their generation may be event based or configured to occur + periodically. + +2.1.8. Dependent Stream + + A stream of time synchronized encoded media fragments that are + dependent on one or more encoded streams (Section 2.1.7) and zero or + more dependent streams to be possible to decode. + + Each dependent stream has a set of dependencies. These dependencies + must be understood by the parties in a Multimedia Session + (Section 2.2.4) that intend to use a dependent stream. + +2.1.9. Media Packetizer + + The transformation of taking one or more encoded (Section 2.1.7) or + dependent streams (Section 2.1.8) and putting their content into one + or more sequences of packets, normally RTP Packets, and output Source + RTP Streams (Section 2.1.10). This step includes both generating RTP + Payloads as well as RTP packets. The Media Packetizer then selects + which synchronization source(s) (SSRC) [RFC3550] and RTP Sessions + (Section 2.2.2) to use. + + The media packetizer can combine multiple encoded or dependent + streams into one or more RTP Streams: + + o The media packetizer can use multiple inputs when producing a + single RTP stream. One such example is Single RTP stream on a + Single media Transport (SRST) packetization when using Scalable + Video Coding (SVC) (Section 3.7). + + o The media packetizer can also produce multiple RTP streams, for + example, when encoded and/or dependent streams are distributed + over multiple RTP streams. One example of this is Multiple RTP + streams on Multiple media Transports (MRMT) packetization when + using SVC (Section 3.7). + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 13] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.10. RTP Stream + + An RTP stream is a stream of RTP packets containing media data, + source or redundant. The RTP stream is identified by an SSRC + belonging to a particular RTP Session. The RTP session is identified + as discussed in Section 2.2.2. + + A source RTP stream is an RTP stream directly related to an encoded + stream (Section 2.1.7), targeted for transport over RTP without any + additional RTP-based Redundancy (Section 2.1.11) applied. + + Characteristics: + + o Each RTP stream is identified by an SSRC [RFC3550] that is carried + in every RTP and RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) packet header. The + SSRC is unique in a specific RTP session context. + + o At any given point in time, an RTP stream can have one and only + one SSRC, but SSRCs for a given RTP stream can change over time. + SSRC collision and clock rate change [RFC7160] are examples of + valid reasons to change SSRC for an RTP stream. In those cases, + the RTP stream itself is not changed in any significant way, only + the identifying SSRC number. + + o Each SSRC defines a unique RTP sequence numbering and timing + space. + + o Several RTP streams, each with their own SSRC, may represent a + single media source. + + o Several RTP streams, each with their own SSRC, can be carried in a + single RTP session. + +2.1.11. RTP-Based Redundancy + + RTP-based redundancy is defined here as a transformation that + generates redundant or repair packets sent out as a Redundancy RTP + Stream (Section 2.1.12) to mitigate Network Transport + (Section 2.1.18) impairments, like packet loss and delay. Note that + this excludes the type of redundancy that most suitable media + encoders (Section 2.1.6) may add to the media format of the encoded + stream (Section 2.1.7) that makes it cope better with RTP packet + losses. + + The RTP-based redundancy exists in many flavors: they may generate + independent repair streams that are used in addition to the source + stream (like RTP Retransmission (Section 3.10) and some special types + of Forward Error Correction (FEC) (Section 3.11), like RTP stream + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 14] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + duplication (Section 3.8)); they may generate a new source stream by + combining redundancy information with source information (using XOR + FEC as a redundancy payload (Section 3.9)); or they may completely + replace the source information with only redundancy packets. + +2.1.12. Redundancy RTP Stream + + A redundancy RTP stream is an RTP stream (Section 2.1.10) that + contains no original source data, only redundant data, which may + either be used as standalone or be combined with one or more Received + RTP Streams (Section 2.1.23) to produce Repaired RTP Streams + (Section 2.1.26). + +2.1.13. RTP-Based Security + + The optional RTP-based Security transformation applies security + services such as authentication, integrity protection, and + confidentiality to an input RTP stream, like what is specified in + "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)" [RFC3711], producing + a Secured RTP Stream (Section 2.1.14). Either an RTP stream + (Section 2.1.10) or a redundancy RTP stream (Section 2.1.12) can be + used as input to this transformation. + + In SRTP and the related Secure RTCP (SRTCP), all of the above- + mentioned security services are optional, except for integrity + protection of SRTCP, which is mandatory. Also confidentiality + (encryption) is effectively optional in SRTP, since it is possible to + use a NULL encryption algorithm. As described in [RFC7201], the + strength of SRTP data origin authentication depends on the + cryptographic transform and key management used. For example, in + group communication, where it is sometimes possible to authenticate + group membership but not the actual RTP stream sender. + + RTP-based security and RTP-based redundancy can be combined in a few + different ways. One way is depicted in Figure 1, where an RTP stream + and its corresponding redundancy RTP stream are protected by separate + RTP-based security transforms. In other cases, like when a Media + Translator is adding FEC in Section 3.2.1.3 of [RTP-TOPOLOGIES], a + middlebox can apply RTP-based redundancy to an already secured RTP + stream instead of a source RTP stream. One example of that is + depicted in Figure 5 below. + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 15] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + Source RTP Stream +------------+ + V | V + +----------------------+ | +----------------------+ + | RTP-Based Security | | | RTP-Based Redundancy | + +----------------------+ | +----------------------+ + | | | + | | Redundancy RTP Stream + +-------------+ | + | V + | +----------------------+ + Secured RTP Stream | RTP-Based Security | + | +----------------------+ + | | + | Secured Redundancy RTP Stream + V V + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + | Media Transport | | Media Transport | + +----------------------+ +----------------------+ + + Figure 5: Adding Redundancy to a Secured RTP Stream + + In this case, the redundancy RTP stream may already have been secured + for confidentiality (encrypted) by the first RTP-based security, and + it may therefore not be necessary to apply additional confidentiality + protection in the second RTP-based security. To avoid attacks and + negative impact on RTP-based Repair (Section 2.1.25) and the + resulting repaired RTP stream (Section 2.1.26), it is, however, still + necessary to have this second RTP-based security apply both + authentication and integrity protection to the redundancy RTP stream. + +2.1.14. Secured RTP Stream + + A secured RTP stream is a source or redundancy RTP stream that is + protected through RTP-based security (Section 2.1.13) by one or more + of the confidentiality, integrity, or authentication security + services. + +2.1.15. Media Transport + + A media transport defines the transformation that the RTP streams + (Section 2.1.10) are subjected to by the end-to-end transport from + one RTP Sender (Section 4.12) to one specific RTP Receiver + (Section 4.11) (an RTP session (Section 2.2.2) may contain multiple + RTP receivers per sender). Each media transport is defined by a + transport association that is normally identified by a 5-tuple + (source address, source port, destination address, destination port, + transport protocol), but a proposal exists for sending multiple + transport associations on a single 5-tuple [TRANSPORT-MULTIPLEX]. + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 16] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + Characteristics: + + o Media transport transmits RTP streams of RTP packets from a source + transport address to a destination transport address. + + o Each media transport contains only a single RTP session. + + o A single RTP session can span multiple media transports. + + The media transport concept sometimes needs to be decomposed into + more steps to enable discussion of what a sender emits that gets + transformed by the network before it is received by the receiver. + Thus, we provide also this media transport decomposition (Figure 6). + + RTP Stream + | + V + +--------------------------+ + | Media Transport Sender | + +--------------------------+ + | + Sent RTP Stream + V + +--------------------------+ + | Network Transport | + +--------------------------+ + | + Transported RTP Stream + V + +--------------------------+ + | Media Transport Receiver | + +--------------------------+ + | + V + Received RTP Stream + + Figure 6: Decomposition of Media Transport + +2.1.16. Media Transport Sender + + The first transformation within the media transport (Section 2.1.15) + is the Media Transport Sender. The sending Endpoint (Section 2.2.1) + takes an RTP stream and emits the packets onto the network using the + transport association established for this media transport, thereby + creating a Sent RTP Stream (Section 2.1.17). In the process, it + transforms the RTP stream in several ways. First, it generates the + necessary protocol headers for the transport association, for + example, IP and UDP headers, thus forming IP/UDP/RTP packets. In + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 17] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + addition, the media transport sender may queue, intentionally pace, + or otherwise affect how the packets are emitted onto the network, + thereby potentially introducing delay and delay variations [RFC5481] + that characterize the sent RTP stream. + +2.1.17. Sent RTP Stream + + The sent RTP stream is the RTP stream as entering the first hop of + the network path to its destination. The sent RTP stream is + identified using network transport addresses, like the 5-tuple + (source IP address, source port, destination IP address, destination + port, and protocol (UDP)) for IP/UDP. + +2.1.18. Network Transport + + Network transport is the transformation that subjects the sent RTP + stream (Section 2.1.17) to traveling from the source to the + destination through the network. This transformation can result in + loss of some packets, delay, and delay variation on a per-packet + basis, packet duplication, and packet header or data corruption. + This transformation produces a Transported RTP Stream + (Section 2.1.19) at the exit of the network path. + +2.1.19. Transported RTP Stream + + The transported RTP stream is the RTP stream that is emitted out of + the network path at the destination, subjected to the network + transport's transformation (Section 2.1.18). + +2.1.20. Media Transport Receiver + + The Media Transport Receiver is the receiver endpoint's + (Section 2.2.1) transformation of the transported RTP stream + (Section 2.1.19) by its reception process, which results in the + received RTP stream (Section 2.1.23). This transformation includes + transport checksums being verified. Sensible system designs + typically either discard packets with mismatching checksums or pass + them on while somehow marking them in the resulting received RTP + stream so to alert subsequent transformations about the possible + corrupt state. In this context, it is worth noting that there is + typically some probability for corrupt packets to pass through + undetected (with a seemingly correct checksum). Other + transformations can compensate for delay variations in receiving a + packet on the network interface and providing it to the application + (de-jitter buffer). + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 18] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.21. Received Secured RTP Stream + + This is the secured RTP stream (Section 2.1.14) resulting from the + media transport (Section 2.1.15) aggregate transformation. + +2.1.22. RTP-Based Validation + + RTP-based Validation is the reverse transformation of RTP-based + security (Section 2.1.13). If this transformation fails, the result + is either not usable and must be discarded or may be usable but + cannot be trusted. If the transformation succeeds, the result can be + a received RTP stream (Section 2.1.23) or a Received Redundancy RTP + Stream (Section 2.1.24), depending on what was input to the + corresponding RTP-based security transformation, but it can also be a + Received Secured RTP Stream (Section 2.1.21) in case several RTP- + based security transformations were applied. + +2.1.23. Received RTP Stream + + The received RTP stream is the RTP stream (Section 2.1.10) resulting + from the media transport's aggregate transformation (Section 2.1.15), + i.e., subjected to packet loss, packet corruption, packet + duplication, delay, and delay variation from sender to receiver. + +2.1.24. Received Redundancy RTP Stream + + The received redundancy RTP stream is the redundancy RTP stream + (Section 2.1.12) resulting from the media transport's aggregate + transformation, i.e., subjected to packet loss, packet corruption, + packet duplication, delay, and delay variation from sender to + receiver. + +2.1.25. RTP-Based Repair + + RTP-based repair is a transformation that takes as input zero or more + received RTP streams (Section 2.1.23) and one or more received + redundancy RTP streams (Section 2.1.24) and produces one or more + repaired RTP streams (Section 2.1.26) that are as close to the + corresponding sent source RTP streams (Section 2.1.10) as possible, + using different RTP-based repair methods, for example, the ones + referred to in RTP-based redundancy (Section 2.1.11). + +2.1.26. Repaired RTP Stream + + A repaired RTP stream is a received RTP stream (Section 2.1.23) for + which received redundancy RTP stream (Section 2.1.24) information has + been used to try to recover the source RTP stream (Section 2.1.10) as + it was before media transport (Section 2.1.15). + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 19] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.27. Media Depacketizer + + A Media Depacketizer takes one or more RTP streams (Section 2.1.10), + depacketizes them, and attempts to reconstitute the encoded streams + (Section 2.1.7) or dependent streams (Section 2.1.8) present in those + RTP streams. + + In practical implementations, the media depacketizer and the media + decoder may be tightly coupled and share information to improve or + optimize the overall decoding and error concealment process. It is, + however, not expected that there would be any benefit in defining a + taxonomy for those detailed (and likely very implementation- + dependent) steps. + +2.1.28. Received Encoded Stream + + The Received Encoded Stream is the received version of an encoded + stream (Section 2.1.7). + +2.1.29. Media Decoder + + A media decoder is a transformation that is responsible for decoding + encoded streams (Section 2.1.7) and any dependent streams + (Section 2.1.8) into a source stream (Section 2.1.5). + + In practical implementations, the media decoder and the media + depacketizer may be tightly coupled and share information to improve + or optimize the overall decoding process in various ways. It is, + however, not expected that there would be any benefit in defining a + taxonomy for those detailed (and likely very implementation- + dependent) steps. + + A media decoder has to deal with any errors in the encoded streams + that resulted from corruption or failure to repair packet losses. + Therefore, it commonly is robust to error and losses, and includes + concealment methods. + +2.1.30. Received Source Stream + + The received source stream is the received version of a source stream + (Section 2.1.5). + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 20] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.1.31. Media Sink + + The Media Sink receives a source stream (Section 2.1.5) that + contains, usually periodically, sampled media data together with + associated synchronization information. Depending on application, + this source stream then needs to be transformed into a raw stream + (Section 2.1.3) that is conveyed to the Media Render (Section 2.1.33) + and synchronized with the output from other media sinks. The media + sink may also be connected with a media source (Section 2.1.4) and be + used as part of a conceptual media source. + + The media sink can further transform the source stream into a + representation that is suitable for rendering on the media render as + defined by the application or system-wide configuration. This + includes sample scaling, level adjustments, etc. + +2.1.32. Received Raw Stream + + The Received Raw Stream is the received version of a raw stream + (Section 2.1.3). + +2.1.33. Media Render + + A media render takes a raw stream (Section 2.1.3) and converts it + into physical stimulus (Section 2.1.1) that a human user can + perceive. Examples of such devices are screens and D/A converters + connected to amplifiers and loudspeakers. + + An endpoint can potentially have multiple media renders for each + media type. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 21] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +2.2. Communication Entities + + This section contains concepts for entities involved in the + communication. + + +------------------------------------------------------------+ + | Communication Session | + | | + | +----------------+ +----------------+ | + | | Participant A | +------------+ | Participant B | | + | | | | Multimedia | | | | + | | +------------+ |<==>| Session |<==>| +------------+ | | + | | | Endpoint A | | | | | | Endpoint B | | | + | | | | | +------------+ | | | | | + | | | +----------+-+----------------------+-+----------+ | | | + | | | | RTP | | | | | | | | + | | | | Session |-+---Media Transport----+>| | | | | + | | | | Audio |<+---Media Transport----+-| | | | | + | | | | | | ^ | | | | | | + | | | +----------+-+----------|-----------+-+----------+ | | | + | | | | | v | | | | | + | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | | + | | | | | | Synchronization | | | | | | + | | | | | | Context | | | | | | + | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | | + | | | | | ^ | | | | | + | | | +----------+-+----------|-----------+-+----------+ | | | + | | | | RTP | | v | | | | | | + | | | | Session |<+---Media Transport----+-| | | | | + | | | | Video |-+---Media Transport----+>| | | | | + | | | | | | | | | | | | + | | | +----------+-+----------------------+-+----------+ | | | + | | +------------+ | | +------------+ | | + | +----------------+ +----------------+ | + +------------------------------------------------------------+ + + Figure 7: Example Point-to-Point Communication Session with Two RTP + Sessions + + Figure 7 shows a high-level example representation of a very basic + point-to-point Communication Session between Participants A and B. + It uses two different audio and video RTP sessions between A's and + B's endpoints, where each RTP session is a group communications + channel that can potentially carry a number of RTP streams. It is + using separate media transports for those RTP sessions. The + multimedia session shared by the participants can, for example, be + established using SIP (i.e., there is a SIP dialog between A and B). + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 22] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + The terms used in Figure 7 are further elaborated in the subsections + below. + +2.2.1. Endpoint + + An endpoint is a single addressable entity sending or receiving RTP + packets. It may be decomposed into several functional blocks, but as + long as it behaves as a single RTP stack entity, it is classified as + a single "endpoint". + + Characteristics: + + o Endpoints can be identified in several different ways. While RTCP + Canonical Names (CNAMEs) [RFC3550] provide a globally unique and + stable identification mechanism for the duration of the + communication session (see Section 2.2.5), their validity applies + exclusively within a Synchronization Context (Section 3.1). Thus, + one endpoint can handle multiple CNAMEs, each of which can be + shared among a set of endpoints belonging to the same participant + (Section 2.2.3). Therefore, mechanisms outside the scope of RTP, + such as application-defined mechanisms, must be used to provide + endpoint identification when outside this synchronization context. + + o An endpoint can be associated with at most one participant + (Section 2.2.3) at any single point in time. + + o In some contexts, an endpoint would typically correspond to a + single "host", for example, a computer using a single network + interface and being used by a single human user. In other + contexts, a single "host" can serve multiple participants, in + which case each participant's endpoint may share properties, for + example, the IP address part of a transport address. + +2.2.2. RTP Session + + An RTP session is an association among a group of participants + communicating with RTP. It is a group communications channel that + can potentially carry a number of RTP streams. Within an RTP + session, every participant can find metadata and control information + (over RTCP) about all the RTP streams in the RTP session. The + bandwidth of the RTCP control channel is shared between all + participants within an RTP session. + + Characteristics: + + o An RTP session can carry one or more RTP streams. + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 23] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + o An RTP session shares a single SSRC space as defined in [RFC3550]. + That is, the endpoints participating in an RTP session can see an + SSRC identifier transmitted by any of the other endpoints. An + endpoint can receive an SSRC either as SSRC or as a contributing + source (CSRC) in RTP and RTCP packets, as defined by the + endpoints' network interconnection topology. + + o An RTP session uses at least two media transports + (Section 2.1.15): one for sending and one for receiving. + Commonly, the receiving media transport is the reverse direction + of the media transport used for sending. An RTP session may use + many media transports and these define the session's network + interconnection topology. + + o A single media transport always carries a single RTP session. + + o Multiple RTP sessions can be conceptually related, for example, + originating from or targeted for the same participant + (Section 2.2.3) or endpoint (Section 2.2.1), or by containing RTP + streams that are somehow related (Section 3). + +2.2.3. Participant + + A participant is an entity reachable by a single signaling address + and is thus related more to the signaling context than to the media + context. + + Characteristics: + + o A single signaling-addressable entity, using an application- + specific signaling address space, for example, a SIP URI. + + o A participant can participate in several multimedia sessions + (Section 2.2.4). + + o A participant can be comprised of several associated endpoints + (Section 2.2.1). + +2.2.4. Multimedia Session + + A multimedia session is an association among a group of participants + (Section 2.2.3) engaged in the communication via one or more RTP + sessions (Section 2.2.2). It defines logical relationships among + media sources (Section 2.1.4) that appear in multiple RTP sessions. + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 24] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + Characteristics: + + o A multimedia session can be composed of several RTP sessions with + potentially multiple RTP streams per RTP session. + + o Each participant in a multimedia session can have a multitude of + media captures and media rendering devices. + + o A single multimedia session can contain media from one or more + synchronization contexts (Section 3.1). An example of that is a + multimedia session containing one set of audio and video for + communication purposes belonging to one synchronization context, + and another set of audio and video for presentation purposes (like + playing a video file) with a separate synchronization context that + has no strong timing relationship and need not be strictly + synchronized with the audio and video used for communication. + +2.2.5. Communication Session + + A communication session is an association among two or more + participants (Section 2.2.3) communicating with each other via one or + more multimedia sessions (Section 2.2.4). + + Characteristics: + + o Each participant in a communication session is identified via an + application-specific signaling address. + + o A communication session is composed of participants that share at + least one multimedia session, involving one or more parallel RTP + sessions with potentially multiple RTP streams per RTP session. + + For example, in a full mesh communication, the communication session + consists of a set of separate multimedia sessions between each pair + of participants. Another example is a centralized conference, where + the communication session consists of a set of multimedia sessions + between each participant and the conference handler. + +3. Concepts of Inter-Relations + + This section uses the concepts from previous sections and looks at + different types of relationships among them. These relationships + occur at different abstraction levels and for different purposes, but + the reason for the needed relationship at a certain step in the media + handling chain may exist at another step. For example, the use of + simulcast (Section 3.6) implies a need to determine relations at the + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 25] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + RTP stream level, but the underlying reason is that multiple media + encoders use the same media source, i.e., to be able to identify a + common media source. + +3.1. Synchronization Context + + A synchronization context defines a requirement for a strong timing + relationship between the media sources, typically requiring alignment + of clock sources. Such a relationship can be identified in multiple + ways as listed below. A single media source can only belong to a + single synchronization context, since it is assumed that a single + media source can only have a single media clock and requiring + alignment to several synchronization contexts (and thus reference + clocks) will effectively merge those into a single synchronization + context. + +3.1.1. RTCP CNAME + + [RFC3550] describes inter-media synchronization between RTP sessions + based on RTCP CNAME, RTP, and timestamps of a reference clock + formatted using the Network Time Protocol (NTP) [RFC5905]. As + indicated in [RFC7273], despite using NTP format timestamps, it is + not required that the clock be synchronized to an NTP source. + +3.1.2. Clock Source Signaling + + [RFC7273] provides a mechanism to signal the clock source in the + Session Description Protocol (SDP) [RFC4566] both for the reference + clock as well as the media clock, thus allowing a synchronization + context to be defined beyond the one defined by the usage of CNAME + source descriptions. + +3.1.3. Implicitly via RtcMediaStream + + WebRTC defines RtcMediaStream with one or more RtcMediaStreamTracks. + All tracks in a RtcMediaStream are intended to be synchronized when + rendered, implying that they must be generated such that + synchronization is possible. + +3.1.4. Explicitly via SDP Mechanisms + + The SDP Grouping Framework [RFC5888] defines an "m=" line + (Section 4.2) grouping mechanism called Lip Synchronization (with LS + identification-tag) for establishing the synchronization requirement + across "m=" lines when they map to individual sources. + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 26] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + Source-Specific Media Attributes in SDP [RFC5576] extends the above + mechanism when multiple media sources are described by a single "m=" + line. + +3.2. Endpoint + + Some applications require knowledge of what media sources originate + from a particular endpoint (Section 2.2.1). This can include such + decisions as packet routing between parts of the topology, knowing + the endpoint origin of the RTP streams. + + In RTP, this identification has been overloaded with the + synchronization context (Section 3.1) through the usage of the RTCP + source description CNAME (Section 3.1.1). This works for some + usages, but in others it breaks down. For example, if an endpoint + has two sets of media sources that have different synchronization + contexts, like the audio and video of the human participant as well + as a set of media sources of audio and video for a shared movie, + CNAME would not be an appropriate identification for that endpoint. + Therefore, an endpoint may have multiple CNAMEs. The CNAMEs or the + media sources themselves can be related to the endpoint. + +3.3. Participant + + In communication scenarios, information about which media sources + originate from which participant (Section 2.2.3) is commonly needed. + One reason is, for example, to enable the application to correctly + display participant identity information associated with the media + sources. This association is handled through signaling to point at a + specific multimedia session where the media sources may be explicitly + or implicitly tied to a particular endpoint. + + Participant information becomes more problematic when there are media + sources that are generated through mixing or other conceptual + processing of raw streams or source streams that originate from + different participants. These types of media sources can thus have a + dynamically varying set of origins and participants. RTP contains + the concept of CSRC that carries information about the previous step + origin of the included media content on the RTP level. + +3.4. RtcMediaStream + + An RtcMediaStream in WebRTC is an explicit grouping of a set of media + sources (RtcMediaStreamTracks) that share a common identifier and a + single synchronization context (Section 3.1). + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 27] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +3.5. Multi-Channel Audio + + There exist a number of RTP payload formats that can carry multi- + channel audio, despite the codec being a single-channel (mono) + encoder. Multi-channel audio can be viewed as multiple media sources + sharing a common synchronization context. These are independently + encoded by a media encoder and the different encoded streams are + packetized together in a time-synchronized way into a single source + RTP stream, using the used codec's RTP payload format. Examples of + codecs that support multi-channel audio are PCMA and PCMU [RFC3551], + Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) [RFC4867], and G.719 [RFC5404]. + +3.6. Simulcast + + A media source represented as multiple independent encoded streams + constitutes a simulcast [SDP-SIMULCAST] or Modification Detection + Code (MDC) of that media source. Figure 8 shows an example of a + media source that is encoded into three separate simulcast streams, + that are in turn sent on the same media transport flow. When using + simulcast, the RTP streams may be sharing an RTP session and media + transport, or be separated on different RTP sessions and media + transports, or be any combination of these two. One major reason to + use separate media transports is to make use of different quality of + service (QoS) for the different source RTP streams. Some + considerations on separating related RTP streams are discussed in + Section 3.12. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 28] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + +----------------+ + | Media Source | + +----------------+ + Source Stream | + +----------------------+----------------------+ + | | | + V V V + +------------------+ +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Media Encoder | | Media Encoder | | Media Encoder | + +------------------+ +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Encoded | Encoded | Encoded + | Stream | Stream | Stream + V V V + +------------------+ +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Media Packetizer | | Media Packetizer | | Media Packetizer | + +------------------+ +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Source | Source | Source + | RTP | RTP | RTP + | Stream | Stream | Stream + +-----------------+ | +-----------------+ + | | | + V V V + +-------------------+ + | Media Transport | + +-------------------+ + + Figure 8: Example of Media Source Simulcast + + The simulcast relation between the RTP streams is the common media + source. In addition, to be able to identify the common media source, + a receiver of the RTP stream may need to know which configuration or + encoding goals lay behind the produced encoded stream and its + properties. This enables selection of the stream that is most useful + in the application at that moment. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 29] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +3.7. Layered Multi-Stream + + Layered Multi-Stream (LMS) is a mechanism by which different portions + of a layered or scalable encoding of a source stream are sent using + separate RTP streams (sometimes in separate RTP sessions). LMSs are + useful for receiver control of layered media. + + A media source represented as an encoded stream and multiple + dependent streams constitutes a media source that has layered + dependencies. Figure 9 represents an example of a media source that + is encoded into three dependent layers, where two layers are sent on + the same media transport using different RTP streams, i.e., SSRCs, + and the third layer is sent on a separate media transport. + + +----------------+ + | Media Source | + +----------------+ + | + | + V + +---------------------------------------------------------+ + | Media Encoder | + +---------------------------------------------------------+ + | | | + Encoded Stream Dependent Stream Dependent Stream + | | | + V V V + +----------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+ + |Media Packetizer| |Media Packetizer| |Media Packetizer| + +----------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+ + | | | + RTP Stream RTP Stream RTP Stream + | | | + +------+ +------+ | + | | | + V V V + +-----------------+ +-----------------+ + | Media Transport | | Media Transport | + +-----------------+ +-----------------+ + + Figure 9: Example of Media Source Layered Dependency + + It is sometimes useful to make a distinction between using a single + media transport or multiple separate media transports when (in both + cases) using multiple RTP streams to carry encoded streams and + dependent streams for a media source. Therefore, the following new + terminology is defined here: + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 30] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + SRST: Single RTP stream on a Single media Transport + + MRST: Multiple RTP streams on a Single media Transport + + MRMT: Multiple RTP streams on Multiple media Transports + + MRST and MRMT relations need to identify the common media encoder + origin for the encoded and dependent streams. When using different + RTP sessions (MRMT), a single RTP stream per media encoder, and a + single media source in each RTP session, common SSRCs and CNAMEs can + be used to identify the common media source. When multiple RTP + streams are sent from one media encoder in the same RTP session + (MRST), then CNAME is the only currently specified RTP identifier + that can be used. In cases where multiple media encoders use + multiple media sources sharing synchronization context, and thus have + a common CNAME, additional heuristics or identification need to be + applied to create the MRST or MRMT relationships between the RTP + streams. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 31] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +3.8. RTP Stream Duplication + + RTP Stream Duplication [RFC7198], using the same or different media + transports, and optionally also delaying the duplicate [RFC7197], + offers a simple way to protect media flows from packet loss in some + cases (see Figure 10). This is a specific type of redundancy. All + but one source RTP stream (Section 2.1.10) are effectively redundancy + RTP streams (Section 2.1.12), but since both source and redundant RTP + streams are the same, it does not matter which one is which. This + can also be seen as a specific type of simulcast (Section 3.6) that + transmits the same encoded stream (Section 2.1.7) multiple times. + + +----------------+ + | Media Source | + +----------------+ + Source Stream | + V + +----------------+ + | Media Encoder | + +----------------+ + Encoded Stream | + +-----------+-----------+ + | | + V V + +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Media Packetizer | | Media Packetizer | + +------------------+ +------------------+ + Source | RTP Stream Source | RTP Stream + | V + | +-------------+ + | | Delay (opt) | + | +-------------+ + | | + +-----------+-----------+ + | + V + +-------------------+ + | Media Transport | + +-------------------+ + + Figure 10: Example of RTP Stream Duplication + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 32] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +3.9. Redundancy Format + + "RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data" [RFC2198] defines a transport + for redundant audio data together with primary data in the same RTP + payload. The redundant data can be a time-delayed version of the + primary or another time-delayed encoded stream using a different + media encoder to encode the same media source as the primary, as + depicted in Figure 11. + + +--------------------+ + | Media Source | + +--------------------+ + | + Source Stream + | + +------------------------+ + | | + V V + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | Media Encoder | | Media Encoder | + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | | + | +------------+ + Encoded Stream | Time Delay | + | +------------+ + | | + | +------------------+ + V V + +--------------------+ + | Media Packetizer | + +--------------------+ + | + V + RTP Stream + + Figure 11: Concept for Usage of Audio Redundancy with Different Media + Encoders + + The redundancy format is thus providing the necessary meta + information to correctly relate different parts of the same encoded + stream. The case depicted above (Figure 11) relates the received + source stream fragments coming out of different media decoders, to be + able to combine them together into a less erroneous source stream. + +3.10. RTP Retransmission + + Figure 12 shows an example where a media source's source RTP stream + is protected by a retransmission (RTX) flow [RFC4588]. In this + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 33] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + example, the source RTP stream and the redundancy RTP stream share + the same media transport. + + +--------------------+ + | Media Source | + +--------------------+ + | + V + +--------------------+ + | Media Encoder | + +--------------------+ + | Retransmission + Encoded Stream +--------+ +---- Request + V | V V + +--------------------+ | +--------------------+ + | Media Packetizer | | | RTP Retransmission | + +--------------------+ | +--------------------+ + | | | + +------------+ Redundancy RTP Stream + Source RTP Stream | + | | + +---------+ +---------+ + | | + V V + +-----------------+ + | Media Transport | + +-----------------+ + + Figure 12: Example of Media Source Retransmission Flows + + The RTP retransmission example (Figure 12) illustrates that this + mechanism works purely on the source RTP stream. The RTP + retransmission transforms buffers from the sent source RTP stream + and, upon request, emits a retransmitted packet with an extra payload + header as a redundancy RTP stream. The RTP retransmission mechanism + [RFC4588] is specified such that there is a one-to-one relation + between the source RTP stream and the redundancy RTP stream. + Therefore, a redundancy RTP stream needs to be associated with its + source RTP stream. This is done based on CNAME selectors and + heuristics to match requested packets for a given source RTP stream + with the original sequence number in the payload of any new + redundancy RTP stream using the RTX payload format. In cases where + the redundancy RTP stream is sent in a different RTP session than the + source RTP stream, the RTP session relation is signaled by using the + SDP media grouping's [RFC5888] Flow Identification (FID + identification-tag) semantics. + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 34] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +3.11. Forward Error Correction + + Figure 13 shows an example where two media sources' source RTP + streams are protected by FEC. Source RTP stream A has an RTP-based + redundancy transformation in FEC encoder 1. This produces a + redundancy RTP stream 1, that is only related to source RTP stream A. + The FEC encoder 2, however, takes two source RTP streams (A and B) + and produces a redundancy RTP stream 2 that protects them jointly, + i.e., redundancy RTP stream 2 relates to two source RTP streams (a + FEC group). FEC decoding, when needed due to packet loss or packet + corruption at the receiver, requires knowledge about which source RTP + streams that the FEC encoding was based on. + + In Figure 13, all RTP streams are sent on the same media transport. + This is, however, not the only possible choice. Numerous + combinations exist for spreading these RTP streams over different + media transports to achieve the communication application's goal. + + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | Media Source A | | Media Source B | + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | | + V V + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | Media Encoder A | | Media Encoder B | + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | | + Encoded Stream Encoded Stream + V V + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | Media Packetizer A | | Media Packetizer B | + +--------------------+ +--------------------+ + | | + Source RTP Stream A Source RTP Stream B + | | + +-----+---------+-------------+ +---+---+ + | V V V | + | +---------------+ +---------------+ | + | | FEC Encoder 1 | | FEC Encoder 2 | | + | +---------------+ +---------------+ | + | Redundancy | Redundancy | | + | RTP Stream 1 | RTP Stream 2 | | + V V V V + +----------------------------------------------------------+ + | Media Transport | + +----------------------------------------------------------+ + + Figure 13: Example of FEC Redundancy RTP Streams + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 35] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + As FEC encoding exists in various forms, the methods for relating FEC + redundancy RTP streams with its source information in source RTP + streams are many. The XOR-based RTP FEC payload format [RFC5109] is + defined in such a way that a redundancy RTP stream has a one-to-one + relation with a source RTP stream. In fact, the RFC requires the + redundancy RTP stream to use the same SSRC as the source RTP stream. + This requires the use of either a separate RTP session or the + redundancy RTP payload format [RFC2198]. The underlying relation + requirement for this FEC format and a particular redundancy RTP + stream is to know the related source RTP stream, including its SSRC. + +3.12. RTP Stream Separation + + RTP streams can be separated exclusively based on their SSRCs, at the + RTP session level, or at the multimedia session level. + + When the RTP streams that have a relationship are all sent in the + same RTP session and are uniquely identified based on their SSRC + only, it is termed an "SSRC-only-based separation". Such streams can + be related via RTCP CNAME to identify that the streams belong to the + same endpoint. SSRC-based approaches [RFC5576], when used, can + explicitly relate various such RTP streams. + + On the other hand, when RTP streams that are related are sent in the + context of different RTP sessions to achieve separation, it is known + as "RTP session-based separation". This is commonly used when the + different RTP streams are intended for different media transports. + + Several mechanisms that use RTP session-based separation rely on it + as a grouping mechanism expressing the relationship. The solutions + have been based on using the same SSRC value in the different RTP + sessions to implicitly indicate their relation. That way, no + explicit RTP level mechanism has been needed; only signaling level + relations have been established using semantics from the media-line + grouping framework [RFC5888]. Examples of this are RTP + retransmission [RFC4588], SVC Multi-Session Transmission [RFC6190], + and XOR-based FEC [RFC5109]. RTCP CNAME explicitly relates RTP + streams across different RTP sessions, as explained in the previous + section. Such a relationship can be used to perform inter-media + synchronization. + + RTP streams that are related and need to be associated can be part of + different multimedia sessions, rather than just different RTP + sessions within the same multimedia session context. This puts + further demand on the scope of the mechanism(s) and its handling of + identifiers used for expressing the relationships. + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 36] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +3.13. Multiple RTP Sessions over one Media Transport + + [TRANSPORT-MULTIPLEX] describes a mechanism that allows several RTP + sessions to be carried over a single underlying media transport. The + main reasons for doing this are related to the impact of using one or + more media transports (using a common network path or potentially + having different ones). The fewer media transports used, the less + need for NAT/firewall traversal resources and smaller number of flow- + based QoS. + + However, multiple RTP sessions over one media transport imply that a + single media transport 5-tuple is not sufficient to express in which + RTP session context a particular RTP stream exists. Complexities in + the relationship between media transports and RTP sessions already + exist as one RTP session contains multiple media transports, e.g., + even a Peer-to-Peer RTP Session with RTP/RTCP Multiplexing requires + two media transports, one in each direction. The relationship + between media transports and RTP sessions as well as additional + levels of identifiers needs to be considered in both signaling design + and when defining terminology. + +4. Mapping from Existing Terms + + This section describes a selected set of terms from some relevant + RFCs and Internet-Drafts (at the time of writing), using the concepts + from previous sections. + +4.1. Telepresence Terms + + The terms in this subsection are used in the context of CLUE + [CLUE-FRAME]. Note that some terms listed in this subsection use the + same names as terms defined elsewhere in this document. Unless + explicitly stated (as "RTP Taxonomy") and in this subsection, they + are to be read as references to the CLUE-specific term within this + subsection. + +4.1.1. Audio Capture + + Defined in CLUE as a Media Capture (Section 4.1.7) for audio. + Describes an audio media source (Section 2.1.4). + +4.1.2. Capture Device + + Defined in CLUE as a device that converts physical input into an + electrical signal. Identifies a physical entity performing an RTP + Taxonomy media capture (Section 2.1.2) transformation. + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 37] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +4.1.3. Capture Encoding + + Defined in CLUE as a specific Encoding (Section 4.1.6) of a Media + Capture (Section 4.1.7). Describes an encoded stream (Section 2.1.7) + related to CLUE-specific semantic information. + +4.1.4. Capture Scene + + Defined in CLUE as a structure representing a spatial region captured + by one or more Capture Devices (Section 4.1.2), each capturing media + representing a portion of the region. Describes a set of spatially + related media sources (Section 2.1.4). + +4.1.5. Endpoint + + Defined in CLUE as a CLUE-capable device that is the logical point of + final termination through receiving, decoding, and rendering and/or + initiation through capturing, encoding, and sending of media Streams + (Section 4.1.10). CLUE further defines it to consist of one or more + physical devices with source and sink media streams, and exactly one + participant [RFC4353]. Describes exactly one participant + (Section 2.2.3) and one or more RTP Taxonomy endpoints + (Section 2.2.1). + +4.1.6. Individual Encoding + + Defined in CLUE as a set of parameters representing a way to encode a + Media Capture (Section 4.1.7) to become a Capture Encoding + (Section 4.1.3). Describes the configuration information needed to + perform a media encoder (Section 2.1.6) transformation. + +4.1.7. Media Capture + + Defined in CLUE as a source of media, such as from one or more + Capture Devices (Section 4.1.2) or constructed from other media + Streams (Section 4.1.10). Describes either an RTP Taxonomy media + capture (Section 2.1.2) or a media source (Section 2.1.4), depending + on in which context the term is used. + +4.1.8. Media Consumer + + Defined in CLUE as a CLUE-capable device that intends to receive + Capture Encodings (Section 4.1.3). Describes the media receiving + part of an RTP Taxonomy endpoint (Section 2.2.1). + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 38] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +4.1.9. Media Provider + + Defined in CLUE as a CLUE-capable device that intends to send Capture + Encodings (Section 4.1.3). Describes the media sending part of an + RTP Taxonomy endpoint (Section 2.2.1). + +4.1.10. Stream + + Defined in CLUE as a Capture Encoding (Section 4.1.3) sent from a + Media Provider (Section 4.1.9) to a Media Consumer (Section 4.1.8) + via RTP. Describes an RTP stream (Section 2.1.10). + +4.1.11. Video Capture + + Defined in CLUE as a Media Capture (Section 4.1.7) for video. + Describes a video media source (Section 2.1.4). + +4.2. Media Description + + A single Session Description Protocol (SDP) [RFC4566] Media + Description (or media block; an "m=" line and all subsequent lines + until the next "m=" line or the end of the SDP) describes part of the + necessary configuration and identification information needed for a + media encoder transformation, as well as the necessary configuration + and identification information for the media decoder to be able to + correctly interpret a received RTP stream. + + A media description typically relates to a single media source. This + is, for example, an explicit restriction in WebRTC. However, nothing + prevents that the same media description (and same RTP session) is + reused for multiple media sources [RTP-MULTI-STREAM]. It can thus + describe properties of one or more RTP streams, and can also describe + properties valid for an entire RTP session (via [RFC5576] mechanisms, + for example). + +4.3. Media Stream + + RTP [RFC3550] uses media stream, audio stream, video stream, and a + stream of (RTP) packets interchangeably, which are all RTP streams. + +4.4. Multimedia Conference + + A Multimedia Conference is a communication session (Section 2.2.5) + between two or more participants (Section 2.2.3), along with the + software they are using to communicate. + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 39] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +4.5. Multimedia Session + + SDP [RFC4566] defines a multimedia session as a set of multimedia + senders and receivers and the data streams flowing from senders to + receivers, which would correspond to a set of endpoints and the RTP + streams that flow between them. In this document, multimedia session + (Section 2.2.4) also assumes those endpoints belong to a set of + participants that are engaged in communication via a set of related + RTP streams. + + RTP [RFC3550] defines a multimedia session as a set of concurrent RTP + sessions among a common group of participants. For example, a video + conference may contain an audio RTP session and a video RTP session. + This would correspond to a group of participants (each using one or + more endpoints) sharing a set of concurrent RTP sessions. In this + document, multimedia session also defines those RTP sessions to have + some relation and be part of a communication among the participants. + +4.6. Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) + + This term is commonly used to describe the central node in any type + of star topology [RTP-TOPOLOGIES] conference. It describes a device + that includes one participant (Section 2.2.3) (usually corresponding + to a so-called conference focus) and one or more related endpoints + (Section 2.2.1) (sometimes one or more per conference participant). + +4.7. Multi-Session Transmission (MST) + + One of two transmission modes defined in H.264-based SVC [RFC6190], + the other mode being a Single-Session Transmission (SST) + (Section 4.14). In Multi-Session Transmission (MST), the SVC media + encoder sends encoded streams and dependent streams distributed + across two or more RTP streams in one or more RTP sessions. The term + "MST" is ambiguous in RFC 6190, especially since the name indicates + the use of multiple "sessions", while MST-type packetization is in + fact required whenever two or more RTP streams are used for the + encoded and dependent streams, regardless if those are sent in one or + more RTP sessions. Corresponds either to MRST or MRMT (Section 3.7) + stream relations defined in this document. The SVC RTP payload RFC + [RFC6190] is not particularly explicit about how the common media + encoder (Section 2.1.6) relation between encoded streams + (Section 2.1.7) and dependent streams (Section 2.1.8) is to be + implemented. + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 40] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +4.8. Recording Device + + WebRTC specifications use this term to refer to locally available + entities performing a media capture (Section 2.1.2) transformation. + +4.9. RtcMediaStream + + A WebRTC RtcMediaStream is a set of media sources (Section 2.1.4) + sharing the same synchronization context (Section 3.1). + +4.10. RtcMediaStreamTrack + + A WebRTC RtcMediaStreamTrack is a media source (Section 2.1.4). + +4.11. RTP Receiver + + RTP [RFC3550] uses this term, which can be seen as the RTP protocol + part of a media depacketizer (Section 2.1.27). + +4.12. RTP Sender + + RTP [RFC3550] uses this term, which can be seen as the RTP protocol + part of a media packetizer (Section 2.1.9). + +4.13. RTP Session + + Within the context of SDP, a singe "m=" line can map to a single RTP + session (Section 2.2.2), or multiple "m=" lines can map to a single + RTP session. The latter is enabled via multiplexing schemes such as + BUNDLE [SDP-BUNDLE], for example, which allows mapping of multiple + "m=" lines to a single RTP session. + +4.14. Single-Session Transmission (SST) + + One of two transmission modes defined in H.264-based SVC [RFC6190], + the other mode being MST (Section 4.7). In SST, the SVC media + encoder sends encoded streams (Section 2.1.7) and dependent streams + (Section 2.1.8) combined into a single RTP stream (Section 2.1.10) in + a single RTP session (Section 2.2.2), using the SVC RTP payload + format. The term "SST" is ambiguous in RFC 6190, in that it + sometimes refers to the use of a single RTP stream, like in sections + relating to packetization, and sometimes appears to refer to use of a + single RTP session, like in the context of discussing SDP. Closely + corresponds to SRST (Section 3.7) defined in this document. + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 41] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +4.15. SSRC + + RTP [RFC3550] defines this as "the source of a stream of RTP + packets", which indicates that an SSRC is not only a unique + identifier for the encoded stream (Section 2.1.7) carried in those + packets but is also effectively used as a term to denote a media + packetizer (Section 2.1.9). In [RFC3550], it is stated that "a + synchronization source may change its data format, e.g., audio + encoding, over time". The related encoded stream data format in an + RTP stream (Section 2.1.10) is identified by the RTP payload type. + Changing the data format for an encoded stream effectively also + changes what media encoder (Section 2.1.6) is used for the encoded + stream. No ambiguity is introduced to SSRC as an encoded stream + identifier by allowing RTP payload type changes, as long as only a + single RTP payload type is valid for any given RTP Timestamp. This + is aligned with and further described by Section 5.2 of [RFC3550]. + +5. Security Considerations + + The purpose of this document is to make clarifications and reduce the + confusion prevalent in RTP taxonomy because of inconsistent usage by + multiple technologies and protocols making use of the RTP protocol. + It does not introduce any new security considerations beyond those + already well documented in the RTP protocol [RFC3550] and each of the + many respective specifications of the various protocols making use of + it. + + Having a well-defined common terminology and understanding of the + complexities of the RTP architecture will help lead us to better + standards, avoiding security problems. + +6. Informative References + + [CLUE-FRAME] + Duckworth, M., Pepperell, A., and S. Wenger, "Framework + for Telepresence Multi-Streams", Work in Progress, + draft-ietf-clue-framework-22, April 2015. + + [RFC2198] Perkins, C., Kouvelas, I., Hodson, O., Hardman, V., + Handley, M., Bolot, J., Vega-Garcia, A., and S. Fosse- + Parisis, "RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data", RFC 2198, + DOI 10.17487/RFC2198, September 1997, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2198>. + + [RFC3550] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V. + Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time + Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, DOI 10.17487/RFC3550, + July 2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3550>. + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 42] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + [RFC3551] Schulzrinne, H. and S. Casner, "RTP Profile for Audio and + Video Conferences with Minimal Control", STD 65, RFC 3551, + DOI 10.17487/RFC3551, July 2003, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3551>. + + [RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K. + Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", + RFC 3711, DOI 10.17487/RFC3711, March 2004, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3711>. + + [RFC4353] Rosenberg, J., "A Framework for Conferencing with the + Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 4353, + DOI 10.17487/RFC4353, February 2006, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4353>. + + [RFC4566] Handley, M., Jacobson, V., and C. Perkins, "SDP: Session + Description Protocol", RFC 4566, DOI 10.17487/RFC4566, + July 2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4566>. + + [RFC4588] Rey, J., Leon, D., Miyazaki, A., Varsa, V., and R. + Hakenberg, "RTP Retransmission Payload Format", RFC 4588, + DOI 10.17487/RFC4588, July 2006, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4588>. + + [RFC4867] Sjoberg, J., Westerlund, M., Lakaniemi, A., and Q. Xie, + "RTP Payload Format and File Storage Format for the + Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband + (AMR-WB) Audio Codecs", RFC 4867, DOI 10.17487/RFC4867, + April 2007, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4867>. + + [RFC5109] Li, A., Ed., "RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error + Correction", RFC 5109, DOI 10.17487/RFC5109, December + 2007, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5109>. + + [RFC5404] Westerlund, M. and I. Johansson, "RTP Payload Format for + G.719", RFC 5404, DOI 10.17487/RFC5404, January 2009, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5404>. + + [RFC5481] Morton, A. and B. Claise, "Packet Delay Variation + Applicability Statement", RFC 5481, DOI 10.17487/RFC5481, + March 2009, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5481>. + + [RFC5576] Lennox, J., Ott, J., and T. Schierl, "Source-Specific + Media Attributes in the Session Description Protocol + (SDP)", RFC 5576, DOI 10.17487/RFC5576, June 2009, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5576>. + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 43] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + [RFC5888] Camarillo, G. and H. Schulzrinne, "The Session Description + Protocol (SDP) Grouping Framework", RFC 5888, + DOI 10.17487/RFC5888, June 2010, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5888>. + + [RFC5905] Mills, D., Martin, J., Ed., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch, + "Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms + Specification", RFC 5905, DOI 10.17487/RFC5905, June 2010, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5905>. + + [RFC6190] Wenger, S., Wang, Y., Schierl, T., and A. Eleftheriadis, + "RTP Payload Format for Scalable Video Coding", RFC 6190, + DOI 10.17487/RFC6190, May 2011, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6190>. + + [RFC7160] Petit-Huguenin, M. and G. Zorn, Ed., "Support for Multiple + Clock Rates in an RTP Session", RFC 7160, + DOI 10.17487/RFC7160, April 2014, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7160>. + + [RFC7197] Begen, A., Cai, Y., and H. Ou, "Duplication Delay + Attribute in the Session Description Protocol", RFC 7197, + DOI 10.17487/RFC7197, April 2014, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7197>. + + [RFC7198] Begen, A. and C. Perkins, "Duplicating RTP Streams", + RFC 7198, DOI 10.17487/RFC7198, April 2014, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7198>. + + [RFC7201] Westerlund, M. and C. Perkins, "Options for Securing RTP + Sessions", RFC 7201, DOI 10.17487/RFC7201, April 2014, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7201>. + + [RFC7273] Williams, A., Gross, K., van Brandenburg, R., and H. + Stokking, "RTP Clock Source Signalling", RFC 7273, + DOI 10.17487/RFC7273, June 2014, + <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7273>. + + [RTP-MULTI-STREAM] + Lennox, J., Westerlund, M., Wu, W., and C. Perkins, + "Sending Multiple Media Streams in a Single RTP Session", + Work in Progress, draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-multi-stream-08, + July 2015. + + [RTP-TOPOLOGIES] + Westerlund, M. and S. Wenger, "RTP Topologies", Work in + Progress, draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-topologies-update-10, + July 2015. + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 44] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + + [SDP-BUNDLE] + Holmberg, C., Alvestrand, H., and C. Jennings, + "Negotiating Media Multiplexing Using the Session + Description Protocol (SDP)", Work in Progress, + draft-ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation-23, July 2015. + + [SDP-SIMULCAST] + Burman, B., Westerlund, M., Nandakumar, S., and M. Zanaty, + "Using Simulcast in SDP and RTP Sessions", Work in + Progress, draft-ietf-mmusic-sdp-simulcast-01, July 2015. + + [TRANSPORT-MULTIPLEX] + Westerlund, M. and C. Perkins, "Multiplexing Multiple RTP + Sessions onto a Single Lower-Layer Transport", Work in + Progress, draft-westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing- + 07, October 2013. + + [WEBRTC-OVERVIEW] + Alvestrand, H., "Overview: Real Time Protocols for + Browser-based Applications", Work in Progress, + draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-14, June 2015. + +Acknowledgements + + This document has many concepts borrowed from several documents such + as WebRTC [WEBRTC-OVERVIEW], CLUE [CLUE-FRAME], and Multiplexing + Architecture [TRANSPORT-MULTIPLEX]. The authors would like to thank + all the authors of each of those documents. + + The authors would also like to acknowledge the insights, guidance, + and contributions of Magnus Westerlund, Roni Even, Paul Kyzivat, + Colin Perkins, Keith Drage, Harald Alvestrand, Alex Eleftheriadis, Mo + Zanaty, Stephan Wenger, and Bernard Aboba. + +Contributors + + Magnus Westerlund has contributed the concept model for the media + chain using transformations and streams model, including rewriting + pre-existing concepts into this model and adding missing concepts. + The first proposal for updating the relationships and the topologies + based on this concept was also performed by Magnus. + + + + + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 45] + +RFC 7656 RTP Taxonomy November 2015 + + +Authors' Addresses + + Jonathan Lennox + Vidyo, Inc. + 433 Hackensack Avenue + Seventh Floor + Hackensack, NJ 07601 + United States + + Email: jonathan@vidyo.com + + + Kevin Gross + AVA Networks, LLC + Boulder, CO + United States + + Email: kevin.gross@avanw.com + + + Suhas Nandakumar + Cisco Systems + 170 West Tasman Drive + San Jose, CA 95134 + United States + + Email: snandaku@cisco.com + + + Gonzalo Salgueiro + Cisco Systems + 7200-12 Kit Creek Road + Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 + United States + + Email: gsalguei@cisco.com + + + Bo Burman (editor) + Ericsson + Kistavagen 25 + SE-16480 Stockholm + Sweden + + Email: bo.burman@ericsson.com + + + + + + +Lennox, et al. Informational [Page 46] + |