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draft-ietf-avtext-rtp-grouping-taxonomy-02
Network Working Group                                          J. Lennox
Internet-Draft                                                     Vidyo
Intended status: Informational                                  K. Gross
Expires: December 29, 2014                                           AVA
                                                           S. Nandakumar
                                                            G. Salgueiro
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                               B. Burman
                                                                Ericsson
                                                           June 27, 2014

A Taxonomy of Grouping Semantics and Mechanisms for Real-Time Transport
                         Protocol (RTP) Sources
               draft-ietf-avtext-rtp-grouping-taxonomy-02

Abstract

   The terminology about, and associations among, Real-Time Transport
   Protocol (RTP) sources can be complex and somewhat opaque.  This
   document describes a number of existing and proposed relationships
   among RTP sources, and attempts to define common terminology for
   discussing protocol entities and their relationships.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  Concepts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.1.  Media Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       2.1.1.  Physical Stimulus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.1.2.  Media Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.1.3.  Raw Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.1.4.  Media Source  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.1.5.  Source Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       2.1.6.  Media Encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       2.1.7.  Encoded Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       2.1.8.  Dependent Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       2.1.9.  Media Packetizer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       2.1.10. RTP Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       2.1.11. Media Redundancy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       2.1.12. Redundancy RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       2.1.13. Media Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       2.1.14. Media Transport Sender  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       2.1.15. Sent RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       2.1.16. Network Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       2.1.17. Transported RTP Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       2.1.18. Media Transport Receiver  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       2.1.19. Received RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       2.1.20. Received Redundancy RTP Stream  . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       2.1.21. Media Repair  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       2.1.22. Repaired RTP Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       2.1.23. Media Depacketizer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       2.1.24. Received Encoded Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       2.1.25. Media Decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       2.1.26. Received Source Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       2.1.27. Media Sink  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       2.1.28. Received Raw Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       2.1.29. Media Render  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     2.2.  Communication Entities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       2.2.1.  End Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       2.2.2.  RTP Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       2.2.3.  Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
       2.2.4.  Multimedia Session  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       2.2.5.  Communication Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20

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   3.  Relations at Different Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     3.1.  Synchronization Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       3.1.1.  RTCP CNAME  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       3.1.2.  Clock Source Signaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       3.1.3.  Implicitly via RtcMediaStream . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       3.1.4.  Explicitly via SDP Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     3.2.  End Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     3.3.  Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     3.4.  RtcMediaStream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     3.5.  Single- and Multi-Session Transmission of SVC . . . . . .  23
     3.6.  Multi-Channel Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     3.7.  Simulcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     3.8.  Layered Multi-Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
     3.9.  RTP Stream Duplication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     3.10. Redundancy Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     3.11. RTP Retransmission  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     3.12. Forward Error Correction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     3.13. RTP Stream Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     3.14. Multiple RTP Sessions over one Media Transport  . . . . .  32
   4.  Mapping from Existing Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     4.1.  Audio Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     4.2.  Capture Device  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     4.3.  Capture Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     4.4.  Capture Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.5.  Endpoint  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.6.  Individual Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.7.  Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.8.  Media Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.9.  Media Consumer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.10. Media Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     4.11. Media Provider  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     4.12. Media Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     4.13. Multimedia Session  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     4.14. Recording Device  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     4.15. RtcMediaStream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     4.16. RtcMediaStreamTrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     4.17. RTP Sender  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     4.18. RTP Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     4.19. SSRC  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     4.20. Stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     4.21. Video Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
   6.  Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   7.  Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   9.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   Appendix A.  Changes From Earlier Versions  . . . . . . . . . . .  38
     A.1.  Modifications Between WG Version -01 and -02  . . . . . .  38

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     A.2.  Modifications Between WG Version -00 and -01  . . . . . .  39
     A.3.  Modifications Between Version -02 and -03 . . . . . . . .  40
     A.4.  Modifications Between Version -01 and -02 . . . . . . . .  40
     A.5.  Modifications Between Version -00 and -01 . . . . . . . .  40
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40

1.  Introduction

   The existing taxonomy of sources in RTP is often 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 attempts to provide some 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 can be grouped and associated together.

   All non-specific references to ControLling mUltiple streams for
   tElepresence (CLUE) in this document map to [I-D.ietf-clue-framework]
   and all references to Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) map to
   [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-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
   an attempt is made to list any alternate definitions and usages that
   co-exist today along with various characteristics that further
   describes the concept.  These concepts are divided into two
   categories, one related to the chain of streams and transformations
   that media can be subject to, the other for entities involved in the
   communication.

2.1.  Media Chain

   In the context of this memo, Media is a sequence of synthetic or
   Physical Stimulus (Section 2.1.1) (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 stimulus.  This chain of concepts is
   of two main types, streams and transformations.  Streams are time-

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   based sequences of samples of the physical stimulus in various
   representations, while transformations changes the representation of
   the streams in some way.

   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.

   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, this may include loops if required by a
      particular transformation.

   It is also important to remember that this is a conceptual model.
   Thus real-world implementations may look different and have different
   structure.

   To provide a basic understanding of the relationships in the chain we
   below first introduce the concepts for the sender side (Figure 1).
   This covers physical stimulus until media packets are emitted onto
   the network.

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                 Physical Stimulus
                        |
                        V
              +--------------------+
              |    Media Capture   |
              +--------------------+
                        |
                   Raw Stream
                        V
              +--------------------+
              |    Media Source    |<- Synchronization Timing
              +--------------------+
                        |
                  Source Stream
                        V
              +--------------------+
              |   Media Encoder    |
              +--------------------+
                        |
                  Encoded Stream     +-----------+
                        V            |           V
              +--------------------+ | +--------------------+
              |  Media Packetizer  | | |  Media Redundancy  |
              +--------------------+ | +--------------------+
                        |            |           |
                        +------------+ Redundancy RTP Stream
                 Source 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 below
   in Section 2.1.13.

   Below we review a receiver media chain (Figure 2) matching the sender
   side to look at the inverse transformations and their attempts to
   recover possibly identical streams as in the sender chain.  Note that
   the streams out of a reverse transformation, like the Source Stream
   out 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

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   Encoder prevents the Source Stream out of the Media Decoder to be the
   same as the one fed into the Media Encoder.  Other reasons include
   packet loss or late loss in the Media Transport transformation that
   even Media Repair, if used, fails to repair.  It should be noted that
   some transformations are not always present, like Media Repair that
   cannot operate without Redundancy RTP Streams.

           +--------------------+   +--------------------+
           |  Media Transport   |   |  Media Transport   |
           +--------------------+   +--------------------+
                     |                        |
            Received RTP Stream  Received Redundancy RTP Stream
                     |                        |
                     |    +-------------------+
                     V    V
           +--------------------+
           |    Media 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 Renderer   |
           +--------------------+
                     |
                     V
             Physical Stimulus

            Figure 2: Receiver Side Concepts of the Media Chain

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2.1.1.  Physical Stimulus

   The physical stimulus is a physical event that can be measured and
   converted to digital form by an appropriate sensor or transducer.
   This include sound waves making up audio, photons in a light field
   that is visible, 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 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 due to
   its periodical sampling, or at least being timed asynchronous events,
   some form of a stream of media data.  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 support such a configuration.

2.1.3.  Raw Stream

   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.

2.1.4.  Media Source

   A Media Source is the logical source of a reference clock
   synchronized, time progressing, digital media stream, 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.  This
   output has been synchronized with some reference clock, even if just
   a system local wall clock.

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   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 Raw Streams
   (Figure 3), a mixed selection of the three loudest inputs regarding
   speech activity, a selection of a particular video based on the
   current speaker, i.e. typically based on other Media Sources.

                 Raw       Raw       Raw
                Stream    Stream    Stream
                  |         |         |
                  V         V         V
              +--------------------------+
              |        Media Source      |<-- Reference Clock
              |           Mixer          |
              +--------------------------+
                            |
                            V
                      Source Stream

         Figure 3: Conceptual Media Source in form of Audio Mixer

   Characteristics:

   o  At any point, it can represent a physical captured source or
      conceptual source.

2.1.5.  Source Stream

   A time progressing stream of digital samples that has been
   synchronized with a reference clock and comes from particular Media
   Source (Section 2.1.4).

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 include properties such
   as bit-rate, start points for decoding, resolution, bandwidth or
   other fidelity affecting properties.  The actually used codec is also
   an important factor in many communication systems, not only its
   parameters.

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   Scalable Media Encoders need special mentioning as they produce
   multiple outputs that are potentially of different types.  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) that requires at least one Encoded Stream and
   zero or more Dependent Streams to be possible to decode.  A Dependent
   Stream's dependency is one of the grouping relations this document
   discusses further in Section 3.8.

                              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 Encoder produce multiple
   independent and thus individually decodable Encoded Streams that are
   possible to combine into a Received Source Stream that is somehow a
   better representation of the original Source Stream than using only a
   single Encoded Stream.

   Characteristics:

   o  A Media Source can be multiply encoded by different Media Encoders
      to provide various encoded representations.

2.1.7.  Encoded Stream

   A stream of time synchronized encoded media that can be independently
   decoded.

   Characteristics:

   o  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.

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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.

   Characteristics:

   o  Each Dependent Stream has a set of dependencies.  These
      dependencies must be understood by the parties in a multi-media
      session 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 Stream (Section 2.1.8) and put 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 can use multiple inputs when producing a single
   RTP Stream.  One such example is SST packetization when using SVC
   (Section 3.5).

   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 MST packetization when
   using SVC (Section 3.5).

   Characteristics:

   o  The Media Packetizer will select which Synchronization source(s)
      (SSRC) [RFC3550] in which RTP sessions that are used.

   o  Media Packetizer can combine multiple Encoded or Dependent Streams
      into one or more RTP Streams.

2.1.10.  RTP Stream

   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 a RTP Stream containing at least some content
   from an Encoded Stream.  Source material is any media material that
   is produced for transport over RTP without any additional redundancy

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   applied to cope with network transport losses.  Compare this with the
   Redundancy RTP Stream (Section 2.1.12).

   Characteristics:

   o  Each RTP Stream is identified by a unique Synchronization source
      (SSRC) [RFC3550] that is carried in every RTP and RTP Control
      Protocol (RTCP) packet header in a specific RTP session context.

   o  At any given point in time, a RTP Stream can have one and only one
      SSRC.  SSRC collision and clock rate change [RFC7160] are examples
      of valid reasons to change SSRC for a RTP Stream, since the RTP
      Stream itself is not changed in any significant way, only the
      identifying SSRC number.

   o  Each RTP Stream defines a unique RTP sequence numbering and timing
      space.

   o  Several RTP Streams may map to a single Media Source via the
      source transformations.

   o  Several RTP Streams can be carried over a single RTP Session.

2.1.11.  Media Redundancy

   Media redundancy is a transformation that generates redundant or
   repair packets sent out as a Redundancy RTP Stream to mitigate
   network transport impairments, like packet loss and delay.

   The Media Redundancy exists in many flavors; they may be generating
   independent Repair Streams that are used in addition to the Source
   Stream (RTP Retransmission [RFC4588] and some FEC [RFC5109]), they
   may generate a new Source Stream by combining redundancy information
   with source information (Using XOR FEC [RFC5109] as a redundancy
   payload [RFC2198]), or completely replace the source information with
   only redundancy packets.

2.1.12.  Redundancy RTP Stream

   A RTP Stream (Section 2.1.10) that contains no original source data,
   only redundant data that may be combined with one or more Received
   RTP Stream (Section 2.1.19) to produce Repaired RTP Streams
   (Section 2.1.22).

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2.1.13.  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 to one specific RTP receiver (an RTP session may
   contain multiple RTP receivers per sender).  Each Media Transport is
   defined by a transport association that is identified by a 5-tuple
   (source address, source port, destination address, destination port,
   transport protocol).  Each transport association normally contains
   only a single RTP session, although a proposal exists for sending
   multiple RTP sessions over one transport association
   [I-D.westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing].

   Characteristics:

   o  Media Transport transmits RTP Streams of RTP Packets from a source
      transport address to a destination transport address.

   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 5).

                             RTP Stream
                                    |
                                    V
                       +--------------------------+
                       |  Media Transport Sender  |
                       +--------------------------+
                                    |
                             Sent RTP Stream
                                    V
                       +--------------------------+
                       |    Network Transport     |
                       +--------------------------+
                                    |
                        Transported RTP Stream
                                    V
                       +--------------------------+
                       | Media Transport Receiver |
                       +--------------------------+
                                    |
                                    V
                           Received RTP Stream

                Figure 5: Decomposition of Media Transport

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2.1.14.  Media Transport Sender

   The first transformation within the Media Transport (Section 2.1.13)
   is the Media Transport Sender, where the sending End-Point
   (Section 2.2.1) takes a RTP Stream and emits the packets onto the
   network using the transport association established for this Media
   Transport thus creating a Sent RTP Stream (Section 2.1.15).  In this
   process it transforms the RTP Stream in several ways.  First, it
   gains the necessary protocol headers for the transport association,
   for example IP and UDP headers, thus forming IP/UDP/RTP packets.  In
   addition, the Media Transport Sender may queue, pace or otherwise
   affect how the packets are emitted onto the network.  Thus adding
   delay, jitter and inter packet spacings that characterize the Sent
   RTP Stream.

2.1.15.  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 for IP/UDP the
   5-tuple (source IP address, source port, destination IP address,
   destination port, and protocol (UDP)).

2.1.16.  Network Transport

   Network Transport is the transformation that the Sent RTP Stream
   (Section 2.1.15) is subjected to by traveling from the source to the
   destination through the network.  These transformations include, loss
   of some packets, varying delay on a per packet basis, packet
   duplication, and packet header or data corruption.  These
   transformations produces a Transported RTP Stream (Section 2.1.17) at
   the exit of the network path.

2.1.17.  Transported RTP Stream

   The RTP Stream that is emitted out of the network path at the
   destination, subjected to the Network Transport's transformation
   (Section 2.1.16).

2.1.18.  Media Transport Receiver

   The receiver End-Point's (Section 2.2.1) transformation of the
   Transported RTP Stream (Section 2.1.17) by its reception process that
   result in the Received RTP Stream (Section 2.1.19).  This
   transformation includes transport checksums being verified and if
   non-matching, causing discarding of the corrupted packet.  Other
   transformations can include delay variations in receiving a packet on
   the network interface and providing it to the application.

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2.1.19.  Received RTP Stream

   The RTP Stream (Section 2.1.10) resulting from the Media Transport's
   transformation, i.e. subjected to packet loss, packet corruption,
   packet duplication and varying transmission delay from sender to
   receiver.

2.1.20.  Received Redundancy RTP Stream

   The Redundancy RTP Stream (Section 2.1.12) resulting from the Media
   Transport transformation, i.e. subjected to packet loss, packet
   corruption, and varying transmission delay from sender to receiver.

2.1.21.  Media Repair

   A Transformation that takes as input one or more Source RTP Streams
   (Section 2.1.10) as well as Redundancy RTP Streams (Section 2.1.12)
   and attempts to combine them to counter the transformations
   introduced by the Media Transport (Section 2.1.13) to minimize the
   difference between the Source Stream (Section 2.1.5) and the Received
   Source Stream (Section 2.1.26) after Media Decoder (Section 2.1.25).
   The output is a Repaired RTP Stream (Section 2.1.22).

2.1.22.  Repaired RTP Stream

   A Received RTP Stream (Section 2.1.19) for which Received Redundancy
   RTP Stream (Section 2.1.20) information has been used to try to re-
   create the RTP Stream (Section 2.1.10) as it was before Media
   Transport (Section 2.1.13).

2.1.23.  Media Depacketizer

   A Media Depacketizer takes one or more RTP Streams (Section 2.1.10)
   and 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.

   It should be noted that in practical implementations, the Media
   Depacketizer and the Media Decoder 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.

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2.1.24.  Received Encoded Stream

   The received version of an Encoded Stream (Section 2.1.7).

2.1.25.  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).

   It should be noted that 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.

   Characteristics:

   o  A Media Decoder is the entity that will have to deal with any
      errors in the encoded streams that resulted from corruptions or
      failures to repair packet losses.  This as a media decoder
      generally is forced to produce some output periodically.  It thus
      commonly includes concealment methods.

2.1.26.  Received Source Stream

   The received version of a Source Stream (Section 2.1.5).

2.1.27.  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 sent in synchronization with the output from
   other Media Sinks to a Media Render (Section 2.1.29).  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.

   Characteristics:

   o  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
      include sample scaling, level adjustments etc.

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2.1.28.  Received Raw Stream

   The received version of a Raw Stream (Section 2.1.3).

2.1.29.  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, D/A converters
   connected to amplifiers and loudspeakers.

   Characteristics:

   o  An End Point can potentially have multiple Media Renders for each
      media type.

2.2.  Communication Entities

   This section contains concept for entities involved in the
   communication.

       +----------------------------------------------------------+
       | Communication Session                                    |
       |                                                          |
       | +----------------+                    +----------------+ |
       | | Participant A  |   +------------+   | Participant B  | |
       | |                |   | Multimedia |   |                | |
       | | +-------------+|<=>| Session    |<=>|+-------------+ | |
       | | | End Point A ||   |            |   || End Point B | | |
       | | |             ||   +------------+   ||             | | |
       | | | +-----------++--------------------++-----------+ | | |
       | | | | RTP Session|                    |            | | | |
       | | | | Audio      |--Media Transport-->|            | | | |
       | | | |            |<--Media Transport--|            | | | |
       | | | +-----------++--------------------++-----------+ | | |
       | | |             ||                    ||             | | |
       | | | +-----------++--------------------++-----------+ | | |
       | | | | RTP Session|                    |            | | | |
       | | | | Video      |--Media Transport-->|            | | | |
       | | | |            |<--Media Transport--|            | | | |
       | | | +-----------++--------------------++-----------+ | | |
       | | +-------------+|                    |+-------------+ | |
       | +----------------+                    +----------------+ |
       +----------------------------------------------------------+

    Figure 6: Example Point to Point Communication Session with two RTP
                                 Sessions

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   The figure above 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 End Points, 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).  The terms used in that figure are further elaborated in
   the sub-sections below.

2.2.1.  End Point

      Editor's note: Consider if a single word, "Endpoint", is
      preferable

   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
   "End Point".

   Characteristics:

   o  End Points 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 End Point can handle multiple CNAMEs, each of which can be
      shared among a set of End Points 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 ensure End
      Point identification when outside this Synchronization Context.

   o  An End Point can be associated with at most one Participant
      (Section 2.2.3) at any single point in time.

   o  In some contexts, an End Point would typically correspond to a
      single "host".

2.2.2.  RTP Session

      Editor's note: Re-consider if this is really a Communication
      Entity, or if it is rather an existing concept that should be
      described in Section 4.

   An RTP session is an association among a group of participants
   communicating with RTP.  It is a group communications channel which
   can potentially carry a number of RTP Streams.  Within an RTP
   session, every participant can find meta-data and control information

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   (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  Typically, an RTP Session can carry one ore more RTP Streams.

   o  An RTP Session shares a single SSRC space as defined in RFC3550
      [RFC3550].  That is, the End Points participating in an RTP
      Session can see an SSRC identifier transmitted by any of the other
      End Points.  An End Point 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 2.1.13), one for sending and one for receiving.
      Commonly, the receiving one is the reverse direction of the same
      one as used for sending.  An RTP Session may use many Media
      Transports and these define the session's network interconnection
      topology.  A single Media Transport can normally not transport
      more than one RTP Session, unless a solution for multiplexing
      multiple RTP sessions over a single Media Transport is used.  One
      example of such a scheme is Multiple RTP Sessions on a Single
      Lower-Layer Transport
      [I-D.westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing].

   o  Multiple RTP Sessions can be related.

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 have several Multimedia Sessions
      (Section 2.2.4).

   o  A Participant can have several associated End Points
      (Section 2.2.1).

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2.2.4.  Multimedia Session

   A multimedia session is an association among a group of participants
   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.

   Characteristics:

   o  A Multimedia Session can be composed of several parallel 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 group of participants
   communicating with each other via a set of Multimedia Sessions.

   Characteristics:

   o  Each participant in a Communication Session is identified via an
      application-specific signaling address.

   o  A Communication Session is composed of at least one Multimedia
      Session per participant, 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.

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3.  Relations at Different Levels

   This section uses the concepts from previous section and look at
   different types of relationships among them.  These relationships
   occur at different levels and for different purposes.  The section is
   organized such as to look at the level where a relation is required.
   The reason for the relationship may exist at another step in the
   media handling chain.  For example, using Simulcast (discussed in
   Section 3.7) needs to determine relations at RTP Stream level,
   however the reason to relate RTP Streams is that multiple Media
   Encoders use the same Media Source, i.e. to be able to identify a
   common Media Source.

   Media Sources (Section 2.1.4) are commonly grouped and related to an
   End Point (Section 2.2.1) or a Participant (Section 2.2.3).  This
   occurs for several reasons; both due to application logic as well as
   for media handling purposes.

   At RTP Packetization time, there exists a possibility for a number of
   different types of relationships between Encoded Streams
   (Section 2.1.7), Dependent Streams (Section 2.1.8) and RTP Streams
   (Section 2.1.10).  These are caused by grouping together or
   distributing these different types of streams into RTP Streams.

   The resulting RTP Streams will thus also have relations.  This is a
   common relation to handle in RTP due to that RTP Streams are separate
   and have their own SSRC, implying independent sequence numbers and
   timestamp spaces.  The underlying reasons for the RTP Stream
   relationships are different, as can be seen in the sub-sections
   below.

   RTP Streams may be protected by Redundancy RTP Streams during
   transport.  Several approaches listed below can be used to create
   Redundancy RTP Streams;

   o  Duplication of the original RTP Stream

   o  Duplication of the original RTP Stream with a time offset,

   o  Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques, and

   o  Retransmission of lost packets (either globally or selectively).

   The different RTP Streams can be transported within the same RTP
   Session or in different RTP Sessions to accomplish different
   transport goals.  This explicit separation of RTP Streams is further
   discussed in Section 3.13.

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3.1.  Synchronization Context

   A Synchronization Context defines a requirement on a strong timing
   relationship between the Media Sources, typically requiring alignment
   of clock sources.  Such 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 [RFC3550] describes Inter-media synchronization between RTP
   Sessions based on RTCP CNAME, RTP and Network Time Protocol (NTP)
   [RFC5905] formatted timestamps of a reference clock.  As indicated in
   [I-D.ietf-avtcore-clksrc], despite using NTP format timestamps, it is
   not required that the clock be synchronized to an NTP source.

3.1.2.  Clock Source Signaling

   [I-D.ietf-avtcore-clksrc] provides a mechanism to signal the clock
   source in SDP 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

   The WebRTC WG defines "RtcMediaStream" with one or more
   "RtcMediaStreamTracks".  All tracks in a "RtcMediaStream" are
   intended to be possible to synchronize when rendered.

3.1.4.  Explicitly via SDP Mechanisms

   RFC5888 [RFC5888] defines m=line grouping mechanism called "Lip
   Synchronization (LS)" for establishing the synchronization
   requirement across m=lines when they map to individual sources.

   RFC5576 [RFC5576] extends the above mechanism when multiple media
   sources are described by a single m=line.

3.2.  End Point

   Some applications requires knowledge of what Media Sources originate
   from a particular End Point (Section 2.2.1).  This can include such
   decisions as packet routing between parts of the topology, knowing
   the End Point origin of the RTP Streams.

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   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) item.  This works for some
   usages, but sometimes it breaks down.  For example, if an End Point
   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.
   Thus, an End Point may have multiple CNAMEs.  The CNAMEs or the Media
   Sources themselves can be related to the End Point.

3.3.  Participant

   In communication scenarios, it is commonly needed to know which Media
   Sources that originate from which Participant (Section 2.2.3).  Thus
   enabling the application to for example display Participant Identity
   information correctly associated with the Media Sources.  This
   association is currently handled through the signaling solution to
   point at a specific Multimedia Session where the Media Sources may be
   explicitly or implicitly tied to a particular End Point.

   Participant information becomes more problematic due to Media Sources
   that are generated through mixing or other conceptual processing of
   Raw Streams or Source Streams that originate from different
   Participants.  This type of Media Sources can thus have a dynamically
   varying set of origins and Participants.  RTP contains the concept of
   Contributing Sources (CSRC) that carries such information about the
   previous step origin of the included media content on 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).

3.5.  Single- and Multi-Session Transmission of SVC

   Scalable Video Coding [RFC6190] has a mode of operation called Single
   Session Transmission (SST), where Encoded Streams and Dependent
   Streams from the SVC Media Encoder are sent in a single RTP Session
   (Section 2.2.2) using the SVC RTP Payload format.  There is another
   mode of operation where Encoded Streams and Dependent Streams are
   distributed across multiple RTP Sessions, called Multi-Session
   Transmission (MST).  SST denotes one or more RTP Streams (SSRC) per
   Media Source in a single RTP Session.  MST denotes one or more RTP
   Streams (SSRC) per Media Source in each of multiple RTP Sessions.
   This is not always clear from the SVC payload format text [RFC6190],
   but is what existing deployments of that RFC have implemented.

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   To elaborate, what could be called SST-SingleStream (SST-SS) uses a
   single RTP Stream in a single RTP Session to send all Encoded and
   Dependent Streams from a single Media Source.  Similarly, SST-
   MultiStream (SST-MS) uses a single RTP Stream per Media Source in a
   single RTP Session to send the Encoded and Dependent Streams.  MST-SS
   uses a single RTP Stream in each of multiple RTP Sessions, where each
   RTP Stream can originate from any one of possibly multiple Media
   Sources.  Finally, MST-MS uses multiple RTP Streams in each of the
   multiple RTP Sessions, where each RTP Stream can originate from any
   one of possibly multiple Media Sources.  This is summarized below:

   +--------------------------+------------------+---------------------+
   | RTP Streams per Media    | Single RTP       | Multiple RTP        |
   | Source                   | Session          | Sessions            |
   +--------------------------+------------------+---------------------+
   | Single                   | SST-SS           | MST-SS              |
   | Multiple                 | SST-MS           | MST-MS              |
   +--------------------------+------------------+---------------------+

                        Table 1: SST / MST Summary

3.6.  Multi-Channel Audio

   There exist a number of RTP payload formats that can carry multi-
   channel audio, despite the codec being a 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 then packetized
   together in a time synchronized way into a single Source RTP Stream
   using the used codec's RTP Payload format.  Example of such codecs
   are, PCMA and PCMU [RFC3551], AMR [RFC4867], and G.719 [RFC5404].

3.7.  Simulcast

   A Media Source represented as multiple independent Encoded Streams
   constitutes a simulcast of that Media Source.  Figure 7 below
   represents an example of a Media Source that is encoded into three
   separate and different Simulcast streams, that are in turn sent on
   the same Media Transport flow.  When using Simulcast, the RTP Streams
   may be sharing RTP Session and Media Transport, or be separated on
   different RTP Sessions and Media Transports, or be any combination of
   these two.  It is other considerations that affect which usage is
   desirable, as discussed in Section 3.13.

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                            +----------------+
                            |  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 7: 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 that lay behind the produced Encoded Stream and its
   properties.  This to enable selection of the stream that is most
   useful in the application at that moment.

3.8.  Layered Multi-Stream

   Layered Multi-Stream (LMS) is a mechanism by which different portions
   of a layered 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.  The figure below 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,

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   i.e.  SSRCs, and the third layer is sent on a separate Media
   Transport, i.e. a different RTP Session.

                            +----------------+
                            |  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 8: Example of Media Source Layered Dependency

   As an example, the SVC MST (Section 3.5) relation needs to identify
   the common Media Encoder origin for the Encoded and Dependent
   Streams.  The SVC RTP Payload RFC is not particularly explicit about
   how this relation is to be implemented.  When using different RTP
   Sessions, thus different Media Transports, and as long as there is
   only one RTP Stream per Media Encoder and a single Media Source in
   each RTP Session (MST-SS (Section 3.5)), common SSRC 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 (SST-
   MS), 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 having a
   common CNAME, additional heuristics need to be applied to create the
   MST relationship between the RTP Streams.

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3.9.  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.  It is a specific type of redundancy and 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 is which.  This can also be seen as
   a specific type of Simulcast (Section 3.7) 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 9: Example of RTP Stream Duplication

3.10.  Redundancy Format

   The RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data [RFC2198] defines how one
   can transport 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

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   different Media Encoder to encode the same Media Source as the
   primary, as depicted below in Figure 10.

              +--------------------+
              |    Media Source    |
              +--------------------+
                        |
                   Source Stream
                        |
                        +------------------------+
                        |                        |
                        V                        V
              +--------------------+   +--------------------+
              |   Media Encoder    |   |   Media Encoder    |
              +--------------------+   +--------------------+
                        |                        |
                        |                 +------------+
                  Encoded Stream          | Time Delay |
                        |                 +------------+
                        |                        |
                        |     +------------------+
                        V     V
              +--------------------+
              |  Media Packetizer  |
              +--------------------+
                        |
                        V
                   RTP Stream

   Figure 10: 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, or in the case depicted above (Figure 10) relate the Received
   Source Stream fragments coming out of different Media Decoders to be
   able to combine them together into a less erroneous Source Stream.

3.11.  RTP Retransmission

   The figure below (Figure 11) represents an example where a Media
   Source's Source RTP Stream is protected by a retransmission (RTX)
   flow [RFC4588].  In this example the Source RTP Stream and the
   Redundancy RTP Stream share the same Media Transport.

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          +--------------------+
          |    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 11: Example of Media Source Retransmission Flows

   The RTP Retransmission example (Figure 11) helps illustrate that this
   mechanism works purely on the Source RTP Stream.  The RTP
   Retransmission transform buffers the sent Source RTP Stream and upon
   requests emits a retransmitted packet with some extra payload header
   as a Redundancy RTP Stream.  The RTP Retransmission mechanism
   [RFC4588] is specified so that there is a one to one relation between
   the Source RTP Stream and the Redundancy RTP Stream.  Thus a
   Redundancy RTP Stream needs to be associated with its Source RTP
   Stream upon being received.  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 separate RTP Session from the
   Source RTP Stream, these sessions are related, e.g. using the SDP
   Media Grouping's [RFC5888] FID semantics.

3.12.  Forward Error Correction

   The figure below (Figure 12) represents an example where two Media
   Sources' Source RTP Streams are protected by FEC.  Source RTP Stream
   A has a Media Redundancy transformation in FEC Encoder 1.  This

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   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 together, i.e.  Redundancy RTP Stream 2 relate 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 12 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 12: Example of FEC Flows

   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

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   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 to either use a separate RTP session or to use 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.

3.13.  RTP Stream Separation

   RTP Streams can be separated exclusively based on their SSRCs, at the
   RTP Session level, or at the Multi-Media 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 End Point.  [RFC5576]-based approaches, when used, can
   explicitly relate various such RTP Streams.

   On the other hand, when RTP Streams that are related but 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
   to enable an implicit 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 Grouping
   of Media lines 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.

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3.14.  Multiple RTP Sessions over one Media Transport

   [I-D.westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing] describes a mechanism
   that allow 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.  Thus
   using a common network path or potentially have different ones.
   There is reduced need for NAT/FW traversal resources and no need for
   flow based QoS.

   However, Multiple RTP Sessions over one Media Transport makes it
   clear that a single Media Transport 5-tuple is not sufficient to
   express which RTP Session context a particular RTP Stream exists in.
   Complexities in the relationship between Media Transports and RTP
   Session 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 need 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
   IETF RFC and Internet Drafts (at the time of writing), using the
   concepts from previous sections.

4.1.  Audio Capture

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG uses this term to describe
   an audio Media Source (Section 2.1.4).

4.2.  Capture Device

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG use this term to identify a
   physical entity performing a Media Capture (Section 2.1.2)
   transformation.

4.3.  Capture Encoding

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG uses this term to describe
   an Encoded Stream (Section 2.1.7) related to CLUE specific semantic
   information.

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4.4.  Capture Scene

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG uses this term to describe a
   set of spatially related Media Sources (Section 2.1.4).

4.5.  Endpoint

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG use this term to describe
   exactly one Participant (Section 2.2.3) and one or more End Points
   (Section 2.2.1).

4.6.  Individual Encoding

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG use this term to describe
   the configuration information needed to perform a Media Encoder
   (Section 2.1.6) transformation.

4.7.  Multipoint Control Unit (MCU)

   This term is commonly used to describe the central node in any type
   of star topology [I-D.ietf-avtcore-rtp-topologies-update] 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 End Points (Section 2.2.1) (sometimes one or more per
   conference participant).

4.8.  Media Capture

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG uses this term to describe
   either a Media Capture (Section 2.1.2) or a Media Source
   (Section 2.1.4), depending on in which context the term is used.

4.9.  Media Consumer

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG use this term to describe
   the media receiving part of an End Point (Section 2.2.1).

4.10.  Media Description

   A single Source 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.

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   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
   re-used for multiple Media Sources
   [I-D.ietf-avtcore-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).

4.11.  Media Provider

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG use this term to describe
   the media sending part of an End Point (Section 2.2.1).

4.12.  Media Stream

   RTP [RFC3550] uses media stream, audio stream, video stream, and
   stream of (RTP) packets interchangeably, which are all RTP Streams.

4.13.  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 End Points and the RTP
   Streams that flow between them.  In this memo, Multimedia Session
   also assumes those End Points 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 End Points) sharing a set of concurrent RTP Sessions.  In this
   memo, Multimedia Session also defines those RTP Sessions to have some
   relation and be part of a communication among the Participants.

4.14.  Recording Device

   WebRTC specifications use this term to refer to locally available
   entities performing a Media Capture (Section 2.1.2) transformation.

4.15.  RtcMediaStream

   A WebRTC RtcMediaStreamTrack is a set of Media Sources
   (Section 2.1.4) sharing the same Synchronization Context
   (Section 3.1).

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4.16.  RtcMediaStreamTrack

   A WebRTC RtcMediaStreamTrack is a Media Source (Section 2.1.4).

4.17.  RTP Sender

   RTP [RFC3550] uses this term, which can be seen as the RTP protocol
   part of a Media Packetizer (Section 2.1.9).

4.18.  RTP Session

   Within the context of SDP, a singe m=line can map to a single RTP
   Session or multiple m=lines can map to a single RTP Session.  The
   latter is enabled via multiplexing schemes such as BUNDLE
   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation], for example, which allows
   mapping of multiple m=lines to a single RTP Session.

      Editor's note: Consider if the contents of Section 2.2.2 should be
      moved here, or if this section should be kept and refer to the
      above.

4.19.  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).

4.20.  Stream

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG use this term to describe an
   RTP Stream (Section 2.1.10).

4.21.  Video Capture

   Telepresence specifications from CLUE WG uses this term to describe a
   video Media Source (Section 2.1.4).

5.  Security Considerations

   This document simply tries to clarify 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.

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   Hopefully 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.  Acknowledgement

   This document has many concepts borrowed from several documents such
   as WebRTC [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview], CLUE [I-D.ietf-clue-framework],
   Multiplexing Architecture
   [I-D.westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing].  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, and Alex Eleftheriadis.

7.  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.

8.  IANA Considerations

   This document makes no request of IANA.

9.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-avtcore-clksrc]
              Williams, A., Gross, K., Brandenburg, R., and H. Stokking,
              "RTP Clock Source Signalling", draft-ietf-avtcore-
              clksrc-11 (work in progress), March 2014.

   [I-D.ietf-avtcore-rtp-multi-stream]
              Lennox, J., Westerlund, M., Wu, W., and C. Perkins,
              "Sending Multiple Media Streams in a Single RTP Session",
              draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-multi-stream-04 (work in progress),
              May 2014.

   [I-D.ietf-avtcore-rtp-topologies-update]
              Westerlund, M. and S. Wenger, "RTP Topologies", draft-
              ietf-avtcore-rtp-topologies-update-02 (work in progress),
              May 2014.

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   [I-D.ietf-clue-framework]
              Duckworth, M., Pepperell, A., and S. Wenger, "Framework
              for Telepresence Multi-Streams", draft-ietf-clue-
              framework-15 (work in progress), May 2014.

   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation]
              Holmberg, C., Alvestrand, H., and C. Jennings,
              "Negotiating Media Multiplexing Using the Session
              Description Protocol (SDP)", draft-ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-
              negotiation-07 (work in progress), April 2014.

   [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview]
              Alvestrand, H., "Overview: Real Time Protocols for
              Browser-based Applications", draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-10
              (work in progress), June 2014.

   [I-D.westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing]
              Westerlund, M. and C. Perkins, "Multiplexing Multiple RTP
              Sessions onto a Single Lower-Layer Transport", draft-
              westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing-07 (work in
              progress), October 2013.

   [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,
              September 1997.

   [RFC3550]  Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V.
              Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
              Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003.

   [RFC3551]  Schulzrinne, H. and S. Casner, "RTP Profile for Audio and
              Video Conferences with Minimal Control", STD 65, RFC 3551,
              July 2003.

   [RFC4566]  Handley, M., Jacobson, V., and C. Perkins, "SDP: Session
              Description Protocol", RFC 4566, July 2006.

   [RFC4588]  Rey, J., Leon, D., Miyazaki, A., Varsa, V., and R.
              Hakenberg, "RTP Retransmission Payload Format", RFC 4588,
              July 2006.

   [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, April 2007.

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   [RFC5109]  Li, A., "RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error
              Correction", RFC 5109, December 2007.

   [RFC5404]  Westerlund, M. and I. Johansson, "RTP Payload Format for
              G.719", RFC 5404, January 2009.

   [RFC5576]  Lennox, J., Ott, J., and T. Schierl, "Source-Specific
              Media Attributes in the Session Description Protocol
              (SDP)", RFC 5576, June 2009.

   [RFC5888]  Camarillo, G. and H. Schulzrinne, "The Session Description
              Protocol (SDP) Grouping Framework", RFC 5888, June 2010.

   [RFC5905]  Mills, D., Martin, J., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch, "Network
              Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms
              Specification", RFC 5905, June 2010.

   [RFC6190]  Wenger, S., Wang, Y., Schierl, T., and A. Eleftheriadis,
              "RTP Payload Format for Scalable Video Coding", RFC 6190,
              May 2011.

   [RFC7160]  Petit-Huguenin, M. and G. Zorn, "Support for Multiple
              Clock Rates in an RTP Session", RFC 7160, April 2014.

   [RFC7197]  Begen, A., Cai, Y., and H. Ou, "Duplication Delay
              Attribute in the Session Description Protocol", RFC 7197,
              April 2014.

   [RFC7198]  Begen, A. and C. Perkins, "Duplicating RTP Streams", RFC
              7198, April 2014.

Appendix A.  Changes From Earlier Versions

   NOTE TO RFC EDITOR: Please remove this section prior to publication.

A.1.  Modifications Between WG Version -01 and -02

   o  Major re-structure

   o  Moved media chain Media Transport detailing up one section level

   o  Collapsed level 2 sub-sections of section 3 and thus moved level 3
      sub-sections up one level, gathering some introductory text into
      the beginning of section 3

   o  Added that not only SSRC collision, but also a clock rate change
      [RFC7160] is a valid reason to change SSRC value for an RTP stream

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   o  Added a sub-section on clock source signaling

   o  Added a sub-section on RTP stream duplication

   o  Elaborated a bit in section 2.2.1 on the relation between End
      Points, Participants and CNAMEs

   o  Elaborated a bit in section 2.2.4 on Multimedia Session and
      synchronization contexts

   o  Removed the section on CLUE scenes defining an implicit
      synchronization context, since it was incorrect

   o  Clarified text on SVC SST and MST according to list discussions

   o  Removed the entire topology section to avoid possible
      inconsistencies or duplications with draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-
      topologies-update, but saved one example overview figure of
      Communication Entities into that section

   o  Added a section 4 on mapping from existing terms with one sub-
      section per term, mainly by moving text from sections 2 and 3

   o  Changed all occurrences of Packet Stream to RTP Stream

   o  Moved all normative references to informative, since this is an
      informative document

   o  Added references to RFC 7160, RFC 7197 and RFC 7198, and removed
      unused references

A.2.  Modifications Between WG Version -00 and -01

   o  WG version -00 text is identical to individual draft -03

   o  Amended description of SVC SST and MST encodings with respect to
      concepts defined in this text

   o  Removed UML as normative reference, since the text no longer uses
      any UML notation

   o  Removed a number of level 4 sections and moved out text to the
      level above

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A.3.  Modifications Between Version -02 and -03

   o  Section 4 rewritten (and new communication topologies added) to
      reflect the major updates to Sections 1-3

   o  Section 8 removed (carryover from initial -00 draft)

   o  General clean up of text, grammar and nits

A.4.  Modifications Between Version -01 and -02

   o  Section 2 rewritten to add both streams and transformations in the
      media chain.

   o  Section 3 rewritten to focus on exposing relationships.

A.5.  Modifications Between Version -00 and -01

   o  Too many to list

   o  Added new authors

   o  Updated content organization and presentation

Authors' Addresses

   Jonathan Lennox
   Vidyo, Inc.
   433 Hackensack Avenue
   Seventh Floor
   Hackensack, NJ  07601
   US

   Email: jonathan@vidyo.com

   Kevin Gross
   AVA Networks, LLC
   Boulder, CO
   US

   Email: kevin.gross@avanw.com

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   Suhas Nandakumar
   Cisco Systems
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA  95134
   US

   Email: snandaku@cisco.com

   Gonzalo Salgueiro
   Cisco Systems
   7200-12 Kit Creek Road
   Research Triangle Park, NC  27709
   US

   Email: gsalguei@cisco.com

   Bo Burman
   Ericsson
   Kistavagen 25
   SE-164 80 Kista
   Sweden

   Phone: +46 10 714 13 11
   Email: bo.burman@ericsson.com

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