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A Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal mechanism for media controlled by Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
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draft-ietf-mmusic-rtsp-nat-12
Network Working Group                                        J. Goldberg
Internet-Draft                                                     Cisco
Intended status: Standards Track                           M. Westerlund
Expires: November 8, 2012                                       Ericsson
                                                                 T. Zeng
                                                 Nextwave Wireless, Inc.
                                                             May 7, 2012

    A Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal mechanism for media
           controlled by Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
                     draft-ietf-mmusic-rtsp-nat-12

Abstract

   This document defines a solution for Network Address Translation
   (NAT) traversal for datagram based media streams setup and controlled
   with Real-time Streaming Protocol version 2 (RTSP 2.0).  It uses
   Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) adapted to use RTSP as a
   signalling channel, defining the necessary extra RTSP extensions and
   procedures.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Solution Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   4.  RTSP Extensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.1.  ICE Transport Lower Layer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.2.  ICE Candidate Transport Header Parameter . . . . . . . . .  8
     4.3.  ICE Password and Username Transport Header Parameters  . . 11
     4.4.  ICE Feature Tag  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.5.  Status Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       4.5.1.  150 ICE connectivity checks in progress  . . . . . . . 12
       4.5.2.  480 ICE Processing Failed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.6.  New Reason for PLAY_NOTIFY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.7.  Server Side SDP Attribute for ICE Support  . . . . . . . . 13
     4.8.  ICE Features Not Required in RTSP  . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.8.1.  ICE-Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.8.2.  ICE-Mismatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.8.3.  ICE Remote Candidate Transport Header Parameter  . . . 13
   5.  Detailed Solution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.1.  Session description and RTSP DESCRIBE (optional) . . . . . 14
     5.2.  Setting up the Media Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.3.  RTSP SETUP Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.4.  Gathering Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     5.5.  RTSP Server Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     5.6.  Server to Client ICE Connectivity Checks . . . . . . . . . 18
     5.7.  Client to Server ICE Connectivity Check  . . . . . . . . . 18
     5.8.  Client Connectivity Checks Complete  . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     5.9.  Server Connectivity Checks Complete  . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     5.10. Releasing Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     5.11. Steady State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     5.12. Re-SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     5.13. Server Side Changes After Steady State . . . . . . . . . . 20
   6.  ICE and Proxies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     6.1.  Media Handling Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     6.2.  Signalling Only Proxies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     6.3.  Non-supporting Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   7.  RTP and RTCP Multiplexing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   8.  Fallback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   9.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
     9.1.  RTSP Feature Tags  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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     9.2.  Transport Protocol Specifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
     9.3.  RTSP Transport Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
     9.4.  RTSP Status Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
     9.5.  Notify-Reason value  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
     9.6.  SDP Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   10. Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
     10.1. ICE and RTSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   11. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
     12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
     12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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1.  Introduction

   Real-time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) [RFC2326] and RTSP 2.0
   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis] is protocols used to setup and control
   one or more media streams delivering media to receivers.  It is
   RTSP's functionality of setting up media streams that cause serious
   issues with Network Address Translators (NAT) [RFC3022] unless extra
   provisions are taken by the protocol.  There is thus a need for a NAT
   traversal mechanism for the media setup using RTSP.

   RTSP 1.0 [RFC2326] has suffered from the lack of a standardized NAT
   traversal mechanism for a long time, however due to quality of the
   RTSP 1.0 specification, the work was difficult to specify in an
   interoperable fashion.  This documenent is therefore built on the
   specification of RTSP 2.0 [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis].  RTSP 2.0 is
   similar to RTSP 1.0 in many respects but significantly for this work,
   it contains a well defined extension mechanism so allowing a NAT
   traversal extension to be defined that is backwards compatible with
   RTSP 2.0 peers not supporting the extension.  This extension
   mechanism was not possible in RTSP 1.0 as it would break RTSP 1.0
   syntax so causing compatibility issues.

   There have been a number of suggested ways of resolving the NAT-
   traversal of media for RTSP of which a large number are already used
   in implementations.  The evaluation of these NAT traversal solutions
   in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rtsp-nat-evaluation] has shown that there are
   many issues to consider, so after extensive evaluation, a mechanism
   based on Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) were selected.
   This was mainly two reasons: Firstly the mechanism supports RTSP
   servers behind NATs and secondly the mechanism mitigates the security
   threat of using RTSP servers as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
   attack tools.

   This document specifies an ICE based solution that is optimized for
   media delivery server to client.  If in the future extensions are
   specified for other delivery modes than "PLAY", then the
   optimizations in regards to when PLAY request are sent needs to be
   reconsidered.

   The NAT problem for RTSP signalling traffic itself is beyond the
   scope of this document and is left for future study should the need
   arise, because it is a less prevalent problem than the NAT problem
   for RTSP media streams.

2.  Definitions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",

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   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

3.  Solution Overview

   This overview assumes that the reader has some familiarity with how
   ICE [RFC5245] in the context of "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol"
   [RFC3261] and "An Offer/Answer Model with the Session Description
   Protocol (SDP)" [RFC3264] works, as it primarily points out how the
   different ICE steps are accomplished in RTSP.

   1.   RTSP server should indicate it has support for ICE via an SDP
        [RFC4566] attribute ("a=rtsp-ice-d-m") in, for example, the SDP
        returned in RTSP DESCRIBE message.  This allows RTSP clients to
        only send the new ICE interchanges with servers that support ICE
        so as to limit the overhead on current non-ICE supporting RTSP
        servers.  If RTSP DESCRIBE is used the normal capability
        determination mechanism should also be used, i.e.  "Supported"
        header and the defined feature tag.  Note: Both mechanisms
        should be used as there are use cases when either of them are
        not used.

   2.   The RTSP client reviews the session description returned, for
        example by an RTSP DESCRIBE message, to determine what media
        streams need to be setup.  For each of these media streams where
        the transport protocol supports Session Traversal Utilities for
        (NAT) (STUN) [RFC5389] based connectivity checks, the client
        gathers candidate addresses.  See section 4.1.1 in ICE
        [RFC5245].  The client also installs the STUN servers on each of
        the local candidates.

   3.   The RTSP client sends SETUP requests with both a transport
        specification with a lower layer indicating ICE and a new RTSP
        Transport header parameter "candidates" listing the ICE
        candidates for each media stream.

   4.   After receiving the list of candidates from a client, the RTSP
        server gathers its own candidates.  If the server has a public
        IP address, then a single candidate per address family (e.g.
        IPv4 and IPv6), media stream and media component tuple can be
        included to reduce the number of combinations and speed up the
        completion.

   5.   The server sets up the media and if successful responds to the
        SETUP request with a 200 OK response.  In that response the
        server selects the transport specification using ICE and
        includes its candidates in the candidates parameter.

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   6.   The server starts the connectivity checks following the
        procedures described in Section 5.7 and 5.8 of ICE [RFC5245].
        If the server has a public IP address with a single candidate
        per media stream, component and address family then one may
        configure the server to not initiate connectivity checks.

   7.   The client receives the SETUP response and learns the candidate
        address to use for the connectivity checks, and then initiates
        its connectivity check, following the procedures in Section 6 of
        ICE [RFC5245].

   8.   When a connectivity check from the client reaches the server it
        will result in a triggered check from the server.  This is why
        servers with a public IP address can wait until this triggered
        check to send out any checks for itself, so saving resources and
        mitigating the DDoS potential from server connectivity checks.

   9.   When the client has concluded its connectivity checks, including
        promoting candidates, and has correspondingly received the
        server connectivity checks on the promoted candidates for all
        mandatory components of all media streams, it can issue a PLAY
        request.  If the connectivity checks have not concluded
        successfully then the client may send a new SETUP request
        assuming it has any new information or believes the server may
        be able to do more that can result in successful checks.

   10.  When the RTSP servers receives a PLAY request it checks to see
        the connectivity checks has concluded successfully and only then
        can it play the stream.  If there is a problem with the checks
        then the server sends to the client either a 150 (ICE
        connectivity checks in progress) response to show that it is
        still working on the connectivity checks or a 480 (ICE
        Processing Failed) response to indicate a failure of the checks.
        If the checks are successful then the server sends a 200 OK
        response and starts delivering media.

   The client and server may release unused candidates when the ICE
   processing has concluded and a single candidate per component has
   been promoted and a PLAY response has been received (Client) or sent
   (Server).

   The client shall continue to use STUN to send keep-alive for the used
   bindings.  This is important as often RTSP media sessions only
   contain media traffic from the server to the client so the bindings
   in the NAT needs to be refreshed by the client to server traffic
   provided by the STUN keep-alive.

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4.  RTSP Extensions

   This section defines the necessary RTSP extensions for performing ICE
   with RTSP.  Note that these extensions are based on the SDP
   attributes in the ICE specification unless expressly indicated.

4.1.  ICE Transport Lower Layer

   A new lower layer "D-ICE" for transport specifications is defined.
   This lower layer is datagram clean except that the protocol used must
   be demultiplexiable with STUN messages (see STUN [RFC5389]).  With
   datagram clean we mean that it must be capable of describing the
   length of the datagram, transport that datagram (as a binary chunk of
   data) and provide it at the receiving side as one single item.  This
   lower layer can be any transport type defined for ICE which does
   provide datagram transport capabilities.  UDP based transport
   candidates are defined in ICE [RFC5245] and MUST be supported.  It is
   OPTIONAL to also support TCP based candidates as defined by "TCP
   Candidates with Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)"
   [RFC6544].  The TCP based candidate fulfills the requirements on
   providing datagram transport and can thus be used in combination with
   RTP.  Additional transport types for candidates may be defined in the
   future.

   This lower layer uses ICE to determine which of the different
   candidates shall be used and then when the ICE processing has
   concluded, uses the selected candidate to transport the datagrams
   over this transport.

   This lower layer transport can be combined with all upper layer media
   transport protocols that are possible to demultiplex with STUN and
   which use datagrams.  This specification defines the following
   combinations:

   o  RTP/AVP/D-ICE

   o  RTP/AVPF/D-ICE

   o  RTP/SAVP/D-ICE

   o  RTP/SAVPF/D-ICE

   This list can easily be extended with more transport specifications
   after having performed the evaluation that they are compatible with
   D-ICE as lower layer.

   The lower-layer "D-ICE" has the following rules for the inclusion of
   transport parameters:

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   unicast:  As ICE only supports unicast operations, thus it is
      REQUIRED that one include the unicast indicator parameter, see
      section 16.46 in RTSP 2.0 [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis].

   candidates:  The "candidates" parameter SHALL be included as this
      specify at least one candidate to try to establish a working
      transport path with.

   dest_addr:  This parameter SHALL NOT be included as "candidates" is
      used instead to provide the necessary address information.

   ICE-Password:  This parameter SHALL be included.

   ICE-ufrag:  This parameter SHALL be included.

4.2.  ICE Candidate Transport Header Parameter

   This section defines a new RTSP transport parameter for carrying ICE
   candidates related to the transport specification they appear within,
   which may then be validated with an end-to-end connectivity check
   using STUN [RFC5389].  Transport parameters may only occur once in
   each transport specification.  For transport specification using
   "D-ICE" as lower layer, this parameter needs to be present.  The
   parameter can contain one or more ICE candidates.  In the SETUP
   response there is only a single transport specification, and if that
   uses the "D-ICE" lower layer this parameter MUST be present and
   include the server side candidates.

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   trns-parameter = <Defined in Section 20.2.3 of
                     [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>
   trns-parameter =/ SEMI ice-trn-par
   ice-trn-par    = "candidates" EQUAL DQ SWS ice-candidate
                                       *(SEMI ice-candidate) SWS DQ
   ice-candidate  = foundation SP
                    component-id SP
                    transport SP
                    priority SP
                    connection-address SP
                    port SP
                    cand-type
                    [SP rel-addr]
                    [SP rel-port]
                    [SP tcp-type-ext] ; Mandatory if transport = TCP
                    *(SP extension-att-name SP extension-att-value)

   foundation            = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   component-id          = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   transport             = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   transport-extension   = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   priority              = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   cand-type             = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   candidate-types       = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   rel-addr              = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   rel-port              = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   tcp-type-ext          = <See section 4.5 of [RFC6544]>
   extension-att-name    = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   extension-att-value   = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   ice-char              = <See section 15.1 of [RFC5245]>
   connection-address    = <See [RFC4566]>
   port                  = <See [RFC4566]>
   EQUAL                 = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>
   DQ                    = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>
   SWS                   = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>
   SEMI                  = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>

   <connection-address>:  is the IP address of the candidate, allowing
      for IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses and Fully qualified domain
      names (FQDN), taken from ICE [RFC4566].  The connection address
      SHOULD be on the same format (explicit IP or FQDN) as in the
      dest_addr parameter used to express fallbacks.  An IP address
      SHOULD be used, but an FQDN MAY be used in place of an IP address.
      In that case, when receiving an SETUP request or response
      containing an FQDN in an candidate parameter, the FQDN is looked
      up in the DNS first using an AAAA record (assuming the agent
      supports IPv6), and if no result is found or the agent only
      supports IPv4, using an A record.  If the DNS query returns more

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      than one IP address, one is chosen, and then used for the
      remainder of ICE processing which in RTSP is subsequent RTSP
      SETUPs for the same RTSP session.

   <port>:  is the port of the candidate, the syntax defined by SDP
      [RFC4566].

   <transport>:   indicates the transport protocol for the candidate.
      The ICE specification defines UDP.  "TCP Candidates with
      Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)" [RFC6544] defines
      how TCP is used as candidates.  Additional extensibility is
      provided to allow for future transport protocols to be used with
      ICE, such as the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
      [RFC4340].

   <foundation>:   is an identifier that is equivalent for two
      candidates that are of the same type, share the same base, and
      come from the same STUN server, and is composed of one to thirty
      two <ice-char>.  The foundation is used to optimize ICE
      performance in the Frozen algorithm.

   <component-id>:  identifies the specific component of the media
      stream for which this is a candidate and os a positive integer
      between 1 and 256.  It MUST start at 1 and MUST increment by 1 for
      each component of a particular candidate.  For media streams based
      on RTP, candidates for the actual RTP media MUST have a component
      ID of 1, and candidates for RTCP MUST have a component ID of 2.
      Other types of media streams which require multiple components
      MUST develop specifications which define the mapping of components
      to component IDs.  See Section 14 for additional discussion on
      extending ICE to new media streams.

   <priority>:  is a positive integer between 1 and (2**31 - 1).

   <cand-type>:  encodes the type of candidate.  The ICE specification
      defines the values "host", "srflx", "prflx" and "relay" for host,
      server reflexive, peer reflexive and relayed candidates,
      respectively.  The set of candidate types is extensible for the
      future.

   <rel-addr> and <rel-port>:  convey transport addresses related to the
      candidate, useful for diagnostics and other purposes. <rel-addr>
      and <rel-port> MUST be present for server reflexive, peer
      reflexive and relayed candidates.  If a candidate is server or
      peer reflexive, <rel-addr> and <rel-port> is equal to the base for
      that server or peer reflexive candidate.  If the candidate is
      relayed, <rel-addr> and <rel-port> is equal to the mapped address
      in the Allocate Response that provided the client with that

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      relayed candidate (see Appendix B.3 of ICE [RFC5245] for a
      discussion of its purpose).  If the candidate is a host candidate
      <rel-addr> and <rel-port> MUST be omitted.

   <tcp-type-ext>:  conveys the candidates connection type (active,
      passive, or S-O) for TCP based candidates.  This MUST be included
      for candidates that has <transport> set to TCP and MUST NOT be
      included for other transport types, including UDP, unless
      explicitly specified for that transport protocol.

4.3.  ICE Password and Username Transport Header Parameters

   The ICE password and username for each agent needs to be transported
   using RTSP.  For that purpose new transport header parameters are
   defined.

   There MUST be an "ICE-Password" and "ICE-ufrag" parameter for each
   media stream.  If two SETUP requests in the same RTSP session have
   identical ICE-ufrag's, they MUST have identical ICE-Password's.  The
   ICE-ufrag and ICE-Password attributes MUST be chosen randomly at the
   beginning of a session.  The ICE-ufrag attribute MUST contain at
   least 24 bits of randomness, and the ICE-Password attribute MUST
   contain at least 128 bits of randomness.  This means that the ICE-
   ufrag attribute will be at least 4 characters long, and the ICE-
   Password at least 22 characters long, since the grammar for these
   attributes allows for 6 bits of randomness per character.  The
   attributes MAY be longer than 4 and 22 characters respectively, of
   course, up to 256 characters.  The upper limit allows for buffer
   sizing in implementations.  Its large upper limit allows for
   increased amounts of randomness to be added over time.

   The ABNF [RFC5234] for these parameters are:
   trns-parameter   =/ SEMI ice-password-par
   trns-parameter   =/ SEMI ice-ufrag-par
   ice-password-par = "ICE-Password" EQUAL DQ password DQ
   ice-ufrag-par    = "ICE-ufrag" EQUAL DQ ufrag DQ
   password         = <Defined in [RFC5245]>
   ufrag            = <Defined in [RFC5245]>
   EQUAL            = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>
   SEMI             = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>
   DQ               = <Defined in [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]>

4.4.  ICE Feature Tag

   A feature tag is defined for use in the RTSP capabilities mechanism
   for ICE support of media transport using datagrams: "setup.ice-d-m".
   This feature tag indicates that one supports all the mandatory
   functions of this specification.  It is applicable to all types of

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   RTSP agents; clients, servers and proxies.

   The RTSP client SHOULD send the feature tag "setup.ice-d-m" in the
   "Supported" header in all SETUP requests that contain the "D-ICE"
   lower layer transport.

4.5.  Status Codes

   ICE needs two new RTSP response codes to indicate correctly progress
   and errors.

   +------+----------------------------------------------+-------------+
   | Code | Reason                                       | Method      |
   +------+----------------------------------------------+-------------+
   | 150  | Server still working on ICE connectivity     | PLAY        |
   |      | checks                                       |             |
   | 480  | ICE Connectivity check failure               | PLAY, SETUP |
   +------+----------------------------------------------+-------------+

        Table 1: New Status codes and their usage with RTSP methods

4.5.1.  150 ICE connectivity checks in progress

   The 150 response code indicates that ICE connectivity checks are
   still in progress and haven't concluded.  This response SHALL be sent
   within 200 milliseconds of receiving a PLAY request that currently
   can't be fulfilled because ICE connectivity checks are still running.
   Subsequently, every 3 seconds after the previous sent one, a 150
   reply shall be sent until the ICE connectivity checks conclude either
   successfully or in failure, and a final response for the request can
   be provided.

4.5.2.  480 ICE Processing Failed

   The 480 client error response code is used in cases when the request
   can't be fulfilled due to a failure in the ICE processing, such as
   that all the connectivity checks have timed out.  This error message
   can appear either in response to a SETUP request to indicate that no
   candidate pair can be constructed or to a PLAY request that the
   server's connectivity checks resulted in failure.

4.6.  New Reason for PLAY_NOTIFY

   A new value used in the PLAY_NOTIFY methods Notify-Reason header is
   defined: "ice-restart".  This reason indicates that a ICE restart
   needs to happen on the identified resource and session.

   Notify-Reas-val =/ "ice-restart"

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4.7.  Server Side SDP Attribute for ICE Support

   If the server supports the media NAT traversal for RTSP controlled
   sessions, as described in this RFC, then the Server SHOULD include
   the "a=rtsp-ice-d-m" SDP attribute in any SDP (if used) describing
   content served by the server.  This is an session level attribute.

   rtsp-ice-d-m-attr = "a=" "rtsp-ice-d-m"

4.8.  ICE Features Not Required in RTSP

   A number of ICE signalling features are not needed with RTSP and are
   discussed below.

4.8.1.  ICE-Lite

   The ICE-Lite attribute shall not be used in the context of RTSP.  The
   ICE specification describes two implementations of ICE: Full and
   Lite, where hosts that are not behind a NAT are allowed to implement
   only Lite.  For RTSP, the Lite implementation is insufficient because
   it does not cause the media server to send a connectivity check,
   which are used to protect against making the RTSP server a denial of
   service tool.  This document defines another variation implementation
   of ICE, called ICE-RTSP.  It has its own set of simplifications
   suitable to RTSP.  Conceptually, this implementation of ICE-RTSP is
   between ICE-FULL and ICE-LITE for a server and simpler than ICE-FULL
   for clients.

4.8.2.  ICE-Mismatch

   The ice-mismatch parameter indicates that the offer arrived with a
   default destination for a media component that didn't have a
   corresponding candidate attribute.  This is not needed for RTSP as
   the ICE based lower layer transport specification either is supported
   or another alternative transport is used.  This is always explicitly
   indicated in the SETUP request and response.

4.8.3.  ICE Remote Candidate Transport Header Parameter

   The Remote candidate attribute is not needed for RTSP for the
   following reasons.  Each SETUP results in a independent ICE
   processing chain which either fails or results in promoting a single
   candidate pair to usage.  If a new SETUP request for the same media
   is sent this needs to use a new userfragment and password to avoid
   any race conditions or uncertainty for which processing round the
   STUN requests relate to.

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5.  Detailed Solution

   This section describes in detail how the interaction and flow of ICE
   works with RTSP messages.

5.1.  Session description and RTSP DESCRIBE (optional)

   The RTSP server should indicate it has support for ICE by sending the
   "a=rtsp-ice-d-m" SDP attribute in the response to the RTSP DESCRIBE
   message if SDP is used.  This allows RTSP clients to only send the
   new ICE interchanges with servers that support ICE so limiting the
   overhead on current non-ICE supporting RTSP servers.  When not using
   RTSP DESCRIBE it is still recommended to use the SDP attribute for
   session description.

   A Client can also use the DESCRIBE request to determine explicitly if
   both server and any proxies support ICE.  The client includes the
   "Supported" header with its supported feature tags, including
   "setup.ice-d-m".  Any proxy upon seeing the "Supported" header will
   include the "Proxy-Supported" header with the feature tags it
   supports.  The server will echo back the "Proxy-Supported" header and
   its own version of the Supported header so enabling a client to
   determine if all involved parties support ICE or not.  Note that even
   if a proxy is present in the chain that doesn't indicate support for
   ICE, it may still work.

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   For example:
        C->S: DESCRIBE rtsp://server.example.com/fizzle/foo RTSP/2.0
              CSeq: 312
              User-Agent: PhonyClient 1.2
              Accept: application/sdp, application/example
              Supported: setup.ice-d-m, setup.rtp.rtcp.mux

        S->C: RTSP/2.0 200 OK
              CSeq: 312
              Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:35:06 GMT
              Server: PhonyServer 1.1
              Content-Type: application/sdp
              Content-Length: 367
              Supported: setup.ice-d-m, setup.rtp.rtcp.mux

              v=0
              o=mhandley 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 192.0.2.46
              s=SDP Seminar
              i=A Seminar on the session description protocol
              u=http://www.example.com/lectures/sdp.ps
              e=seminar@example.com (Seminar Management)
              t=2873397496 2873404696
              a=recvonly
              a=rtsp-ice-d-m
              a=control: *
              m=audio 3456 RTP/AVP 0
              a=control: /audio
              m=video 2232 RTP/AVP 31
              a=control: /video

5.2.  Setting up the Media Streams

   The RTSP client reviews the session description returned, for example
   by an RTSP DESCRIBE message, to determine what media resources that
   need to be setup.  For each of these media streams where the
   transport protocol supports ICE connectivity checks, the client SHALL
   gather candidate addresses for UDP transport as described in section
   4.1.1 in ICE [RFC5245] according to standard ICE rather than the ICE-
   Lite implementation and according to section 5 of ICE TCP [RFC6544]
   for TCP based candidates.

5.3.  RTSP SETUP Request

   The RTSP client will then send at least one SETUP request per media
   stream to establish the media streams required for the desired
   session.  For each media stream where it desires to use ICE it will
   include a transport specification with "D-ICE" as the lower layer,
   and each media stream SHALL have its own unique combination of ICE

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   candidates and ICE-ufrag.  This transport specification SHOULD be
   placed first in the list to give it highest priority.  It is
   RECOMMENDED that additional transport specifications are provided as
   a fallback in case of non ICE supporting proxies.  The RTSP client
   will be initiating and thus the controlling party in the ICE
   processing.  For example (Note that some lines are broken in
   contradiction with the defined syntax due to space restrictions in
   the documenting format:

   C->S: SETUP rtsp://server.example.com/fizzle/foo/audio RTSP/2.0
         CSeq: 313
         Transport: RTP/AVP/D-ICE; unicast; ICE-ufrag=8hhY;
                   ICE-Password=asd88fgpdd777uzjYhagZg; candidates="
                   1 1 UDP 2130706431 10.0.1.17 8998 typ host;
                   2 1 UDP 1694498815 192.0.2.3 45664 typ srflx
                            raddr 10.0.1.17 rport 8998"; RTCP-mux,
                RTP/AVP/UDP; unicast; dest_addr=":6970"/":6971",
                RTP/AVP/TCP;unicast;interleaved=0-1
         Accept-Ranges: NPT, UTC
         User-Agent: PhonyClient/1.2
         Supported: setup.ice-d-m, setup.rtp.rtcp.mux

5.4.  Gathering Candidates

   Upon receiving a SETUP request the server can determine what media
   resource should be delivered and which transport alternatives that
   the client supports.  If one based on D-ICE is on the list of
   supported transports and prefered among the supported, the below
   applies.

   The transport specification will provide which media protocol is to
   be used and based on this and the clients candidates, the server
   determines the protocol and if it supports ICE with that protocol.
   The server shall then gather its UDP candidates according to section
   4.1.1 in ICE [RFC5245] and any TCP based ones according to section 5
   of ICE TCP [RFC6544].

   Servers that have an address that is generally reachable by any
   clients within the address scope the server intends to serve MAY be
   specially configured (high-reachability configuration).  This special
   configuration has the goal of reducing the server side candidate to
   preferably a single one per (address family, media stream, media
   component) tuple.  Instead of gathering all possible addresses
   including relayed and server reflexive addresses, the server uses a
   single address per address family that it knows it should be
   reachable by a client behind one or more NATs.  The reason for this
   special configuration is two fold: Firstly it reduces the load on the
   server in address gathering and in ICE processing during the

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   connectivity checks.  Secondly it will reduce the number of
   permutations for candidate pairs significantly thus potentially
   speeding up the conclusion of the ICE processing.  Note however that
   using this option on a server that doesn't fulfill the requirement of
   being reachable is counter-productive and it is important that this
   is correctly configured.

   The above general consideration for servers applies also for TCP
   based candidates.  A general implementation should support several
   candidate collection techniques and connection types.  For TCP based
   candidates a high-reachability configured server is recommended to
   only offer Host candidates.  In addition to passive connection types
   the server can select to provide active or SO conenction types to
   match the client's candidates.

5.5.  RTSP Server Response

   The server determines if the SETUP request is successful from the
   other perspectives and will return a 200 OK response, otherwise
   returning an error code.  At that point the server, having selected a
   transport specification using the "D-ICE" lower layer, will need to
   include that transport specification in the response message.  The
   transport specification shall include the candidates gathered in
   Section 5.4 in the "candidates" transport header parameter as well as
   the server's username and password fragments.  In the case that there
   are no valid candidate pairs with the combination of the client and
   servers candidates, a 480 (ICE Processing Failed) error response
   SHALL be returned which MUST include the servers' candidates.  The
   return of a 480 error allows both the server and client to release
   its candidates.

   Example of a succesful response to the request in Section 5.3.

   S->C: RTSP/2.0 200 OK
         CSeq: 313
         Session: 12345678
         Transport: RTP/AVP/D-ICE; unicast; RTCP-mux; ICE-ufrag=MkQ3;
                   ICE-Password=pos12Dgp9FcAjpq82ppaF; candidates="
                    1 1 UDP 2130706431 192.0.2.56 50234 typ host"
         Accept-Ranges: NPT
         Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:35:06 GMT
         Server: PhonyServer 1.1
         Supported: setup.ice-d-m, setup.rtp.rtcp.mux

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5.6.  Server to Client ICE Connectivity Checks

   The server shall start the connectivity checks following the
   procedures described in Section 5.7 and 5.8 of ICE [RFC5245] unless
   it is configured to use the high-reachability option.  If it is then
   it MAY suppress its own checks until the servers checks are triggered
   by the client's connectivity checks.

   Please note that section 5.8 does specify that the initiation of the
   checks are paced and new ones are only started every Ta milliseconds.
   The motivation for this is documented in Appendix B.1 of ICE
   [RFC5245] as for SIP/SDP all media streams within an offer/answer
   dialog are running using the same queue.  To ensure the same behavior
   with RTSP, the server SHALL use a single pacer queue for all media
   streams within each RTSP session.

   The values for the pacing of STUN and TURN transactions Ta and RTO
   can be configured but have the same minimum values defined in the ICE
   specification.

   When a connectivity check from the client reaches the server it will
   result in a triggered check from the server as specified in section
   7.2.1.4 of ICE [RFC5245].  This is why servers with a high
   reachability address can wait until this triggered check to send out
   any checks for itself so saving resources and mitigating the DDoS
   potential.

5.7.  Client to Server ICE Connectivity Check

   The client receives the SETUP response and learns the candidate
   address to use for the connectivity checks.  The client shall
   initiate its connectivity check, following the procedures in Section
   6 of ICE [RFC5245].  The STUN transaction pacer SHALL be used across
   all media streams part of the same RTSP session.

   Aggressive nomination SHALL be used with RTSP.  This doesn't have the
   negative impact that it has in offer/answer as media playing only
   starts after issuing a PLAY request.

5.8.  Client Connectivity Checks Complete

   When the client has concluded all of its connectivity checks and has
   nominated its desired candidate for a particular media stream, it MAY
   issue a PLAY request for that stream.  Note, that due to the
   aggressive nomination, there is a risk that any outstanding check may
   nominate another pair than what was already nominated.  If the client
   has locally determined that its checks have failed it may try
   providing an extended set of candidates and update the server

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   candidate list by issuing a new SETUP request for the media stream.

   If the client concluded its connectivity checks successfully and
   therefore sent a PLAY request but the server cannot conclude
   successfully, the server will respond with a 480 (ICE Processing
   Failed).  Upon receiving the 480 (ICE Processing Failed) response,
   the client may send a new SETUP request assuming it has any new
   information that can be included in the candidate list.  If the
   server is still performing the checks when receiving the PLAY request
   it will respond with a 150 (CE connectivity checks in progress)
   response to indicate this.

5.9.  Server Connectivity Checks Complete

   When the RTSP server receives a PLAY request, it checks to see that
   the connectivity checks have concluded successfully and only then
   will it play the stream.  If the PLAY request is for a particular
   media stream, the server only needs to check that the connectivity
   checks for that stream completely successfully.  If the server has
   not concluded its connectivity checks the server indicates that by
   sending the 150 (ICE connectivity checks in progress)
   (Section 4.5.1).  If there is a problem with the checks then the
   server sends to the client a 480 response to indicate a failure of
   the checks.  If the checks are successful then the server sends a 200
   OK response and starts delivering media.

5.10.  Releasing Candidates

   Both server and client MAY release its non nominated candidates as
   soon as a 200 PLAY response has been issued/received and no
   outstanding connectivity checks exist.

5.11.  Steady State

   The client and server SHALL use STUN to send keep-alive for the
   nominated candidate pair(s) following the rules of Section 10 of ICE
   [RFC5245].  This is important as normally RTSP play mode sessions
   only contain traffic from the server to the client so the bindings in
   the NAT need to be refreshed by the client to server traffic provided
   by the STUN keep-alive.

5.12.  Re-SETUP

   The server SHALL support SETUP requests in PLAYING state, as long as
   the SETUP changes only the ICE parameters, which are: ICE-Password,
   ICE-ufrag and the content of ICE candidates.

   If the client decides to change any parameters related to the media

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   stream setup it will send a new SETUP request.  In this new SETUP
   request the client MAY include a new different username and password
   to use in the ICE processing.  New username and passwords SHALL cause
   the ICE processing to start from the beginning again, i.e. an ICE
   restart.  The client SHALL in case of ICE restart gather candidates
   and include the candidates in the transport specification for D-ICE.

   If the RTSP session is in playing state at the time of sending the
   SETUP request requiring ICE restart, then the ICE connectivity checks
   SHALL use Regular nomination.  Any ongoing media delivery continues
   on the previously nominated candidate pairs until the new pairs have
   been nominated for the individual candidate.  Once the nomination of
   the new candidate pair has completed, all unused candidates may be
   released.

5.13.  Server Side Changes After Steady State

   A Server may require an ICE restart because of server side load
   balancing or a failure resulting in an IP address and a port number
   change.  It shall use the PLAY_NOTIFY method to inform the client
   (Section 13.5 [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]) with a new Notify-Reason
   header: ice-restart.  The server will identify if the change is for a
   single media or for the complete session by including the
   corresponding URI in the PLAY_NOTIFY request.

   Upon receiving and responding to this PLAY_NOTIFY with ice-restart
   reason the client SHALL gather new ICE candidates, send SETUP
   requests for each media stream part of the session.  The server
   provides its candidates in the SETUP response the same way as for the
   first time ICE processing.  Both server and client shall provide new
   ICE usernames and passwords.  The client MAY issue the SETUP request
   while the session is in PLAYING state.

   If the RTSP session is in PLAYING state when the client issues the
   SETUP request, the client SHALL use regular nomination.  If not the
   client will use the same procedures as for when first creating the
   session.

   Note that keepalives on the previous set of candidate pairs should
   continue until all new candidate pairs have been nominated.  After
   having nominated a new set of candidate pairs, the client may
   continue to receive media for some additional time.  Even if the
   server stops delivering media over that candidate pair at the time of
   nomination, media may arrive for up to one maximum segment lifetime
   as defined in TCP (2 minutes).  Unfortuntately, if the RTSP server is
   divided into a separate controller and media streame, a failure may
   result in continued media delivery for a longer time than the maximum
   segment liftime, thus source filtering is recommended.

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   For example:

   S->C: PLAY_NOTIFY rtsp://example.com/fizzle/foo RTSP/2.0
         CSeq: 854
         Notify-Reason: ice-restart
         Session: uZ3ci0K+Ld
         Server: PhonyServer 1.1

   C->S: RTSP/2.0 200 OK
         CSeq: 854
         User-Agent: PhonyClient/1.2

   C->S: SETUP rtsp://server.example.com/fizzle/foo/audio RTSP/2.0
         CSeq: 314
         Session: uZ3ci0K+Ld
         Transport: RTP/AVP/D-ICE; unicast; ICE-ufrag=Kl1C;
                    ICE-Password=H4sICGjBsEcCA3Rlc3RzLX; candidates="
                    1 1 UDP 2130706431 10.0.1.17 8998 typ host;
                    2 1 UDP 1694498815 192.0.2.3 51456 typ srflx
                            raddr 10.0.1.17 rport 9002"; RTCP-mux,
                    RTP/AVP/UDP; unicast; dest_addr=":6970"/":6971",
                    RTP/AVP/TCP;unicast;interleaved=0-1
         Accept-Ranges: NPT, UTC
         User-Agent: PhonyClient/1.2

   C->S: SETUP rtsp://server.example.com/fizzle/foo/video RTSP/2.0
         CSeq: 315
         Session: uZ3ci0K+Ld
         Transport: RTP/AVP/D-ICE; unicast; ICE-ufrag=hZv9;
                    ICE-Password=JAhA9myMHETTFNCrPtg+kJ; candidates="
                    1 1 UDP 2130706431 10.0.1.17 9000 typ host;
                    2 1 UDP 1694498815 192.0.2.3 51576 typ srflx
                            raddr 10.0.1.17 rport 9000"; RTCP-mux,
                    RTP/AVP/UDP; unicast; dest_addr=":6972"/":6973",
                    RTP/AVP/TCP;unicast;interleaved=0-1
         Accept-Ranges: NPT, UTC
         User-Agent: PhonyClient/1.2

   S->C: RTSP/2.0 200 OK
         CSeq: 314
         Session: uZ3ci0K+Ld
         Transport: RTP/AVP/D-ICE; unicast; RTCP-mux; ICE-ufrag=CbDm;
                    ICE-Password=OfdXHws9XX0eBr6j2zz9Ak; candidates="
                    1 1 UDP 2130706431 192.0.2.56 50234 typ host"
         Accept-Ranges: NPT
         Date: 11 March 2011 13:17:46 GMT
         Server: PhonyServer 1.1

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   S->C: RTSP/2.0 200 OK
         CSeq: 315
         Session: uZ3ci0K+Ld
         Transport: RTP/AVP/D-ICE; unicast; RTCP-mux; ICE-ufrag=jigs;
                    ICE-Password=Dgx6fPj2lsa2WI8b7oJ7+s; candidates="
                    1 1 UDP 2130706431 192.0.2.56 47233 typ host"
         Accept-Ranges: NPT
         Date: 11 March 2011 13:17:47 GMT
         Server: PhonyServer 1.1

6.  ICE and Proxies

   RTSP allows for proxies which can be of two fundamental types
   depending if they relay and potentially cache the media or not.
   Their differing impact on the RTSP NAT traversal solution, including
   backwards compatibility, is explained below.

6.1.  Media Handling Proxies

   An RTSP proxy that relays or caches the media stream for a particular
   media session can be considered to split the media transport into two
   parts: A media transport between the server and the proxy according
   to the proxies need, and delivery from the proxy to the client.  This
   split means that the NAT traversal solution will need to be run on
   each individual media leg according to need.

   It is RECOMMENDED that any media handling proxy support the media NAT
   traversal defined within this specification.  This is for two
   reasons: Firstly to enable clients to perform NAT traversal for the
   media between the proxy and itself and secondly to allow the proxy to
   be topology independent so able to support performing NAT traversal
   for non-NAT traversal capable clients present in the same address
   domain.

   For a proxy to support the media NAT traversal defined in this
   specification a proxy will need to implement the solution fully and
   be ready as both a controlling and a controlled ICE peer.  The proxy
   also SHALL include the "setup.ice-d-m" feature tag in any applicable
   capability negotiation headers, such as "Proxy-Supported."

6.2.  Signalling Only Proxies

   A signalling only proxy handles only the RTSP signalling and does not
   have the media relayed through proxy functions.  This type of proxy
   is not likely to work unless the media NAT traversal solution is in
   place between the client and the server, because the DoS protection
   measures usually prevent media delivery to other addresses other than

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   from where the RTSP signalling arrives at the server.

   The solution for the Signalling Only proxy is that it must forward
   the RTSP SETUP requests including any transport specification with
   the "D-ICE" lower layer and the related transport parameters.  A
   proxy supporting this functionality SHOULD indicate its capability by
   always including the "setup.ice-d-m" feature tag in the "Proxy-
   Supported" header.

6.3.  Non-supporting Proxies

   A media handling proxy that doesn't support the ICE media NAT
   traversal specified here is assumed to remove the transport
   specification and use any of the lower prioritized transport
   specifications if provided by the requester.  The specification of
   such a non ICE transport enables the negotiation to complete,
   although with a less prefered method as a NAT between the proxy and
   the client will likely result in failure of the media path.

   A non-media handling proxy is expected to ignore and simply forward
   all unknown transport specifications, however, this can only be
   guaranteed for proxies following the published RTSP 2.0
   specification.

   Unfortunately the usage of the "setup.ice-d-m" feature tag in the
   Proxy-Require will have contradicting results.  For a non ICE
   supporting media handling proxy, the inclusion of the feature tag
   will result in aborting the setup and indicating that it isn't
   supported, which is desirable if you want to provide other fallbacks
   or other transport configurations to handle the situation.  For non-
   supporting non-media handling proxies the result will also result in
   aborting the setup, however, setup might have worked if the proxy-
   require tag wasn't present.  This variance in results is the reason
   we don't recommend the usage of the Proxy-Require header.  Instead we
   recommend the usage of the Supported header to force proxies to
   include the feature tags they support in the proxy-supported which
   will provide a positive indication when all proxies in the chain
   between the client and server support the functionality.  Even if not
   explicitly indicating support, any SETUP response including a
   transport specification with "D-ICE" will be implicit indication that
   the proxy chain supports at least passthrough of this media.

7.  RTP and RTCP Multiplexing

   "Multiplexing RTP Data and Control Packets on a Single Port"
   [RFC5761] specifies how and when RTP and RTCP can be multiplexed on
   the same port.  This multiplexing SHALL be combined with ICE as it

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   makes RTP and RTCP need only a single component per media stream
   instead of two, so reducing the load on the connectivity checks.  For
   details on how one negotiate RTP and RTCP multiplexing, see Appendix
   B of RTSP 2.0 [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis].

   Multiplexing RTP and RTCP has the benefit that it avoids the need for
   handling two components per media stream when RTP is used as the
   media transport protocol.  This eliminates at least one STUN check
   per media stream and will also reduce the time needed to complete the
   ICE processing by at least the time it takes to pace out the
   additional STUN checks of up to one complete round trip time for a
   single media stream.  In addition to the protocol performance
   improvements, the server and client side complexities are reduced as
   multiplexing halves the total number of STUN instances and holding
   the associate state.  Multiplexing will also reduce the combinations
   and length of the list of possible candidates.

   The implementation of RTP and RTCP multiplexing is additional work
   required for this solution.  However, when implementing the ICE
   solution a server or client will need to implement a de-multiplexer
   between the STUN, and RTP or RTCP packets below the RTP/RTCP
   implementation anyway, so the additional work of one new
   demultiplexing point directly connected to the STUN and RTP/RTCP
   seems small relative to the benefits provided.

   Due to the above mentioned benefits, RTSP servers and clients that
   supports "D-ICE" lower layer transport in combination with RTP SHALL
   also implement RTP and RTCP multiplexing as specified in this section
   and [RFC5761].

8.  Fallback

   The need for fallback from ICE in RTSP should be less than for SIP
   using ICE in SDP offer/answer where a default destination candidate
   is very important.  This as capability determination for ICE can
   happen prior to the RTSP SETUP request.  Thus a client should
   normally not needed to include fallback alternatives when offering
   ICE, as the capability for ICE will already be determined.  Thus this
   section likely applies more to the cases where the server is not ICE
   capable and the client wishes to use part of the ICE functionality to
   improve NAT/Firewall traversal.

   Section 4.1.4 of the ICE [RFC5245] specification does recommend that
   the default destination, i.e. what is used in fallback if the peer
   isn't ICE capable is a candidate of relayed type to maximize the
   likelyhood of succesfull transport of media.  This is based on that
   the peer in SIP SDP offer/answer is almost as likely as the RTSP

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   client to be behind a NAT.  For RTSP the deployement of servers are
   much more heavily weighted towards deployment with public
   reachability.  In fact due to that servers behind NAT either needs to
   support ICE or have static configurations that allow traversal one
   can assume that the server will have a public address or support ICE.
   Thus, the selection of the default destination address for RTSP can
   be differently prioritized.

   As an ICE enabled client needs to configured with a STUN server
   address to be able to gather candidates successfully, this can be
   utilized to derive a server reflexive candidate for the clients port.
   How useful this is for an RTSP client as default candidate depends on
   the properties of the NAT.  As long as the NAT use an address
   independent mapping, then using a STUN derived reflexive candidate is
   likely to be successfully.  This is however brittle in several ways.
   First, the NATs behavior can be determined using STUN as described in
   [RFC3489], however this might not be represenative of the behavior
   encountered in another mapping.  Secondly, filter state towards the
   ports used by the server needs to be established.  This requires that
   the server actually include both address and ports in its response to
   the SETUP request.  Thirdly messages needs to be sent to these ports
   for keep-alive at a regular interval.  How a server reacts to such
   unsolicited traffic is unknown.  This brittleness may be accepted in
   fallback due to lack of support on the server side.

   Fallback addresses needs to be provided in their own transport
   specification using a specifier that do not include the "D-ICE" lower
   layer transport.  Instead the selected protocol, e.g.  UDP needs to
   be explicitly or implictly indicated.  Secondly the selected default
   candidate needs to be included in the SETUP request.  If this
   candidate is server reflexive or relayed the aspect of keep-alive
   needs to be ensured.

9.  IANA Considerations

   This document request registration in a number of registries, both
   for RTSP and SDP.

9.1.  RTSP Feature Tags

   This document request that one RTSP 2.0 feature tags are registered
   in the "RTSP 2.0 Feature-tags" registry:

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   setup.ice-d-m  See Section 4.4.  This feature tag applies to clients,
      servers and proxies.

9.2.  Transport Protocol Specifications

   This document needs to register a number of transport protocol
   combinations are registered in RTSP 2.0's "Transport Protocol
   Specifications" registry.

   "RTP/AVP/D-ICE"  RTP using the AVP profile over an ICE established
      datagram flow.

   "RTP/AVPF/D-ICE"  RTP using the AVPF profile over an ICE established
      datagram flow.

   "RTP/SAVP/D-ICE"  RTP using the SAVP profile over an ICE established
      datagram flow.

   "RTP/SAVPF/D-ICE"  RTP using the SAVPF profile over an ICE
      established datagram flow.

9.3.  RTSP Transport Parameters

   This document requests that 3 transport parameters are registered in
   RTSP 2.0's "Transport Parameters":

   "candidates":  Listing the properties of one or more ICE candidate.
      See Section Section 4.2.

   "ICE-Password":  The ICE password used to authenticate the STUN
      binding request in the ICE connectivity checks.  See Section
      Section 4.3.

   "ICE-ufrag":  The ICE username fragment used to authenticate the STUN
      binding requests in the ICE connectivity checks.  See Section
      Section 4.3.

9.4.  RTSP Status Codes

   This document requests that 2 assignments are done in the "RTSP 2.0
   Status Codes" registry.  The suggested values are:

   150:  See Section Section 4.5.1.

   480:  See Section Section 4.5.2.

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9.5.  Notify-Reason value

   This document requests that one assignment is done in the RTSP 2.0
   Notify-Reason header value registry.  The defined value is:

   ice-restart:  Server notifying the client about the need for an ICE
      restart.  See section Section 4.6.

9.6.  SDP Attribute

   The registration of one SDP attribute is requested:
      SDP Attribute ("att-field"):

        Attribute name:     rtsp-ice-d-m
        Long form:          ICE for RTSP datagram media NAT traversal
        Type of name:       att-field
        Type of attribute:  Session level only
        Subject to charset: No
        Purpose:            RFC XXXX
        Reference:          RFC XXXX
        Values:             No values defined.
        Contact:            Magnus Westerlund
                            E-mail: magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com
                            phone: +46 10 714 82 87

10.  Security Considerations

   ICE [RFC5245] and ICE TCP [RFC6544] provides an extensive discussion
   on security considerations which applies here as well.

10.1.  ICE and RTSP

   A long-standing risk with transmitting a packet stream over UDP is
   that the host may not be interested in receiving the stream.  On
   today's Internet many hosts are behind NATs or operate host firewalls
   which do not respond to unsolicited packets with an ICMP port
   unreachable error.  Thus, an attacker can construct RTSP SETUP
   requests with a victim's IP address and cause a flood of media
   packets to be sent to a victim.  The addition of ICE, as described in
   this document, provides protection from the attack described above.
   By performing the ICE connectivity check, the media server receives
   confirmation that the RTSP client wants the media.  While this
   protection could also be implemented by requiring the IP addresses in
   the SDP match the IP address of the RTSP signaling packet, such a
   mechanism does not protect other hosts with the same IP address (such
   as behind the same NAT), and such a mechanism would prohibit
   separating the RTSP controller from the media playout device (e.g.,

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   an IP-enabled remote control and an IP-enabled television), it also
   forces RTSP proxies to relay the media streams through them, even if
   they only are signalling proxies.

   To protect against the attacks in ICE based on signalling information
   RTSP signalling should be protected using TLS to prevent evesdropping
   and modification of information.

   The STUN amplification attack described in Section 18.5.2 in ICE
   needs consideration.  For servers that are able to run according to
   the high-reachability option have good mitigation against this attack
   as it only sends its connectivity checks towards an address and port
   pair it has received an incomming connectivity check from.  Thus
   requiring the capability to spoof source addresses in addition to
   signal the RTSP server a set of ICE candidates.  Independently an ICE
   agent needs to implement the mitigation to reduce the volume of the
   amplification attack as described in the ICE specification.

11.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Remi Denis-Courmont for suggesting
   the method of integrating ICE in RTSP signalling, Dan Wing for help
   with the security section and numerous other issues.

12.  References

12.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis]
              Schulzrinne, H., Rao, A., Lanphier, R., Westerlund, M.,
              and M. Stiemerling, "Real Time Streaming Protocol 2.0
              (RTSP)", draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-29 (work in
              progress), March 2012.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

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

   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
              Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.

   [RFC5245]  Rosenberg, J., "Interactive Connectivity Establishment
              (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT)
              Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols", RFC 5245,

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              April 2010.

   [RFC5389]  Rosenberg, J., Mahy, R., Matthews, P., and D. Wing,
              "Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 5389,
              October 2008.

   [RFC5761]  Perkins, C. and M. Westerlund, "Multiplexing RTP Data and
              Control Packets on a Single Port", RFC 5761, April 2010.

   [RFC6544]  Rosenberg, J., Keranen, A., Lowekamp, B., and A. Roach,
              "TCP Candidates with Interactive Connectivity
              Establishment (ICE)", RFC 6544, March 2012.

12.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-mmusic-rtsp-nat-evaluation]
              Westerlund, M. and T. Zeng, "The Evaluation of Different
              Network Addres Translator (NAT) Traversal Techniques for
              Media Controlled by Real-time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)",
              draft-ietf-mmusic-rtsp-nat-evaluation-04 (work in
              progress), October 2011.

   [RFC2326]  Schulzrinne, H., Rao, A., and R. Lanphier, "Real Time
              Streaming Protocol (RTSP)", RFC 2326, April 1998.

   [RFC3022]  Srisuresh, P. and K. Egevang, "Traditional IP Network
              Address Translator (Traditional NAT)", RFC 3022,
              January 2001.

   [RFC3261]  Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
              A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
              Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
              June 2002.

   [RFC3264]  Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "An Offer/Answer Model
              with Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 3264,
              June 2002.

   [RFC3489]  Rosenberg, J., Weinberger, J., Huitema, C., and R. Mahy,
              "STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
              Through Network Address Translators (NATs)", RFC 3489,
              March 2003.

   [RFC4340]  Kohler, E., Handley, M., and S. Floyd, "Datagram
              Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 4340, March 2006.

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Authors' Addresses

   Jeff Goldberg
   Cisco
   11 New Square, Bedfont Lakes
   Feltham,, Middx  TW14 8HA
   United Kingdom

   Phone: +44 20 8824 1000
   Fax:
   Email: jgoldber@cisco.com
   URI:

   Magnus Westerlund
   Ericsson
   Torshamsgatan 23
   Stockholm,   SE-164 80
   Sweden

   Phone: +46 8 719 0000
   Fax:
   Email: magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com
   URI:

   Thomas Zeng
   Nextwave Wireless, Inc.
   12670 High Bluff Drive
   San Diego, CA  92130
   USA

   Phone: +1 858 480 3100
   Fax:
   Email: thomas.zeng@gmail.com
   URI:

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