Audio/Video Transport (avt)

Audio/Video Transport (avt)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2006-07-05

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
Colin Perkins <[email protected]>
Tom Taylor <[email protected]>
Roni Even <[email protected]>

Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Director(s):
Jon Peterson <[email protected]>
Cullen Jennings <[email protected]>

Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Advisor:
Cullen Jennings <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

The Audio/Video Transport Working Group was formed to specify a
protocol for real-time transmission of audio and video over unicast
and multicast UDP/IP. This is the Real-time Transport Protocol, RTP,
together with its associated profiles and payload formats. The
current aims of the working group are:

- to review and revise existing payload formats to advance those
which are useful to Draft Standard, and to declare others
as Historic. Milestones will be established as a champion for
each payload format is identified.

- to develop payload formats for new media codecs, and to
document best-current practices in payload format design.
The group continues to be precluded from work on codecs
themselves because of overlap with the other standards
bodies, and because the IETF does not have the ability
to effectively review new codecs. An exception was made
for the freeware iLBC codec on a highly experimental basis,
but acceptance of new codec work is unexpected and subject
to rechartering.

- to complete the forward error correction work to update
RFC 2733 in the form of the ULP payload format

- to investigate and if suitable develop a framework for advanced
FEC codes and their usage for RTP, possibly with alignment to
the RMT WG's FEC building block.

- to extend RTP to work with Source-Specific Multicast sessions
with unicast feedback

- to provide a framing mechanism for RTP over TCP and TLS

- in collaboration with the MPLS and ROHC WGs, to develop a solution
for header compression of RTP across MPLS networks that avoid
decompression and compression at each MPLS node.

- to develop a new RTP profile as the combination of the SRTP
profile and the Extended RTP Profile for RTCP-based Feedback
(RTP/SAVPF)

- to develop a new RTP profile for usage of TFRC (RFC 3448) with
RTP over UDP to allow application developers to gain experience
with TCP friendly congestion control.

- to develop a MIB for RTCP XR (RFC 3611).

- to update the RTP MIB, including aligning it with RFC 3550.

The longer term goals of the working group are to advance the
SRTP Profile, the Extended RTP Profile for RTCP-based Feedback,
the Compressed RTP framework, and the RTP MIB to Draft Standard.

The group has no plans to develop new RTP profiles beyond those
listed above, but will consider rechartering to produce profile
level extensions if appropriate.

Goals and Milestones:

Done Review DCCP including prototypes and API; feedback to DCCP WG

Done Initial draft requirements for ECRTP over MPLS; discuss with
MPLS WG

Done Submit iLBC payload format for Proposed Standard

Done Submit iLBC codec specification for Experimental

Done Advance RTP specification and A/V profile to Full Standard

Done Submit RTP/SAVPF profile for Proposed Standard

Nov 2005 Submit ULP Payload Format for Proposed Standard

Done Finished investigation of advanced FEC codes for RTP, update
plan

Dec 2005 Submit any extensions for RTP HC on MPLS networks for Proposed
Standard

Mar 2006 Submit RTCP/SSM draft for Proposed Standard

Mar 2006 Submit SRTP for Draft Standard

Mar 2006 Submit RTP Profile for TFRC for Proposed Standard

Aug 2006 Submit update of RTP MIB for Proposed or Draft Standard

Aug 2006 Submit RTCP XR MIB for Proposed Standard

Sep 2006 Submit RTP/AVPF for Draft Standard

Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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Nov 2000 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-ulp-18.txt>
RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction

Feb 2002 Mar 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtcpssm-11.txt>
RTCP Extensions for Single-Source Multicast Sessions with
Unicast Feedback

May 2002 May 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-jpeg2000-11.txt>
RTP Payload Format for JPEG 2000 Video Streams

May 2002 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc2833bis-15.txt>
RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony
Signals

Oct 2003 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-profile-savpf-06.txt>
Extended Secure RTP Profile for RTCP-based Feedback (RTP/SAVPF)

Oct 2003 Jan 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-midi-guidelines-15.txt>
An Implementation Guide for RTP MIDI

Oct 2003 Jan 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-midi-format-15.txt>
RTP Payload Format for MIDI

Jan 2004 Apr 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc2429-bis-09.txt>
RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video

Jan 2004 Jan 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc2032-bis-13.txt>
RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams

Aug 2004 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-atrac-family-06.txt>
RTP Payload Format for ATRAC Family

Sep 2004 May 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc2190-to-historic-06.txt>
RTP Payload Format for H.263 using RFC2190 to Historic status

Oct 2004 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtcp-xr-mib-05.txt>
RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR) VoIP Metrics
Management Information Base

Oct 2004 Aug 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-amr-bis-05.txt>
RTP Payload Format and File Storage Format for the Adaptive
Multi-Rate (AMR) and Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB)
Audio Codecs

Jan 2005 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc2833bisdata-08.txt>
Definition of Events For Modem, FAX, and Text Telephony Signals

Feb 2005 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc2833biscas-02.txt>
Definition of Events For Channel-Oriented Telephony Signalling

Feb 2005 May 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-jpeg2000-beam-04.txt>
Payload Format for JPEG 2000 Video: Extensions for Scalability
and Main Header Recovery

Jul 2005 Apr 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc3555bis-04.txt>
Media Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats

Aug 2005 May 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-hc-over-mpls-protocol-07.txt>
Protocol Extensions for Header Compression over MPLS

Aug 2005 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-smpte-rtp-03.txt>
Associating SMPTE time-codes with RTP streams

Aug 2005 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-hdrext-03.txt>
A general mechanism for RTP Header Extensions

Dec 2005 May 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-g729-scal-wb-ext-06.txt>
RTP payload format for the G.729.1 audio codec

Jan 2006 Jul 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-compact-bundled-evrc-09.txt>
Enhancements to RTP Payload Formats for EVRC Family Codecs

Feb 2006 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-vorbis-01.txt>
RTP Payload Format for Vorbis Encoded Audio

Feb 2006 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-mib-rtp-bis-01.txt>
Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) MIB Version 2

Mar 2006 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rfc3555bis-part2-01.txt>
Media Type Registration of Payload Formats in the RTP Profile
for Audio and Video Conferences

May 2006 May 2006 <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-howto-00.txt>
How to Write an RTP Payload Format

Request For Comments:

RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1889 PS Jan 1996 RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications

RFC1890 PS Jan 1996 RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal
Control

RFC2035 PS Oct 1996 RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video

RFC2032 PS Oct 1996 RTP payload format for H.261 video streams

RFC2038 PS Oct 1996 RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video

RFC2029 PS Oct 1996 RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding

RFC2190 PS Sep 1997 RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams

RFC2198 PS Sep 1997 RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data

RFC2250 PS Jan 1998 RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video

RFC2343 E May 1998 RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG

RFC2354 I Jun 1998 Options for Repair of Streaming Media

RFC2429 PS Oct 1998 RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec.
H.263 Video (H.263+)

RFC2431 PS Oct 1998 RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding

RFC2435 PS Oct 1998 RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video

RFC2508 PS Feb 1999 Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial
Links

RFC2733 PS Dec 1999 An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error
Correction

RFC2736BCP Dec 1999 Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format
Specifications

RFC2762 E Feb 2000 Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP

RFC2793 PS Jun 2000 RTP Payload for Text Conversation

RFC2833 PS Jun 2000 RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and
Telephony Signals

RFC2862 PS Jul 2000 RTP Payload Format for Real-Time Pointers

RFC2959 PS Oct 2000 Real-Time Transport Protocol Management Information Base

RFC3009 PS Dec 2000 Registration of parityfec MIME types

RFC3016 PS Dec 2000 RTP payload format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual streams

RFC3047 PS Feb 2001 RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1

RFC3119 PS Jun 2001 A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio

RFC3158 I Aug 2001 RTP Testing Strategies

RFC3189 PS Jan 2002 RTP Payload Format for DV Format Video

RFC3190 PS Jan 2002 RTP Payload Format for 12-bit DAT, 20- and 24-bit Linear
Sampled Audio

RFC3267 PS Jul 2002 RTP payload format and file storage format for the
Adoptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Adaptive Multi-Rate
Wideband (AMR-WB) audio codecs

RFC3389 PS Oct 2002 RTP Payload for Comfort Noise

RFC3497 PS Mar 2003 RTP Payload Format for Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers (SMPTE) 292M Video

RFC3558 PS Jul 2003 RTP Payload Format for Enhanced Variable Rate Codecs
(EVRC) and Selectable Mode Vocoders SMV

RFC3557 PS Jul 2003 RTP Payload Format for European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI) European Standard ES 201 108
Distributed Speech Recognition Encoding

RFC3556 PS Jul 2003 Session Description Protocol (SDP) Bandwidth Modifiers
for RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Bandwidth

RFC3555 PS Jul 2003 MIME Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats

RFC3551 DS Jul 2003 RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal
Control

RFC3550 DS Jul 2003 RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications

RFC3545 PS Jul 2003 Enhanced Compressed RTP (CRTP) for links with High
Delay,Packet Loss and Reordering

RFC3611Standard Nov 2003 RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR)

RFC3640Standard Dec 2003 RTP Payload Format for Transport of MPEG-4 Elementary
Streams

RFC3711Standard Mar 2004 The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol

RFC3952 E Dec 2004 RTP Payload Format for iLBC Speech

RFC3951 E Dec 2004 Internet Low Bit Rate Codec

RFC3984Standard Feb 2005 RTP payload Format for H.264 Video

RFC4040Standard Apr 2005 RTP payload format for a 64 kbit/s transparent call

RFC4060Standard May 2005 RTP Payload Formats for European Telecommunications
Standardsv Institute (ETSI) European Standard ES 202
050, ES 202 211, and ES 202 212 Distributed Speech
Recognition Encoding

RFC4102Standard Jun 2005 Registration of the text/red MIME Sub-Type

RFC4103Standard Jun 2005 RTP Payload for Text Conversation

RFC4175Standard Sep 2005 RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video

RFC4184Standard Oct 2005 RTP Payload Format for AC-3 Audio

RFC4247 I Nov 2005 Requirements for Header Compression over MPLS

RFC4170BCP Nov 2005 Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP (TCRTP)

RFC4298Standard Dec 2005 RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice Speech Codecs

RFC4348Standard Jan 2006 Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for
the Variable-Rate Multimode Wideband (VMR-WB) Audio
Codec

RFC4351 H Jan 2006 Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload for Text
Conversation Interleaved in an Audio Stream

RFC4352Standard Jan 2006 RTP Payload Format for the Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate
Wideband (AMR-WB+) Audio Codec

RFC4396Standard Feb 2006 RTP Payload Format for 3rd Generation Partnership
Project (3GPP) Timed Text

RFC4425 PS Feb 2006 RTP Payload Format for Video Codec 1 (VC-1)

RFC4424 PS Feb 2006 Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for
the Variable-Rate Multimode Wideband (VMR-WB) Extension
Audio Codec

RFC4421Standard Feb 2006 RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video: Additional
Colour Sampling Modes

RFC4573 PS Jul 2006 MIME Type Registration for RTP Payload Format for H.224

RFC4585 PS Jul 2006 Extended RTP Profile for Real-time Transport Control
Protocol (RTCP)-Based Feedback (RTP/AVPF)

RFC4571 PS Jul 2006 Framing Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and RTP
Control Protocol (RTCP) Packets over Connection-Oriented
Transport

RFC4588 PS Jul 2006 RTP Retransmission Payload Format

RFC4598 PS Jul 2006 Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for
Enhanced AC-3 (E-AC-3) Audio