AVT                                                             A. Begen
Internet-Draft                                                   D. Wing
Intended status:  Standards Track                                  Cisco
Expires:  June 14, 2011                                   T. VanCaenegem
                                                          Alcatel-Lucent
                                                       December 11, 2010


        Port Mapping Between Unicast and Multicast RTP Sessions
              draft-ietf-avt-ports-for-ucast-mcast-rtp-08

Abstract

   This document presents a port mapping solution that allows RTP
   receivers to choose their own ports for an auxiliary unicast session
   in RTP applications using both unicast and multicast services.  The
   solution provides protection against denial-of-service attacks that
   could be used to cause one or more RTP packets to be sent to a victim
   client.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Requirements Notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  Token-Based Port Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.1.  Token Request and Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.2.  Unicast Session Establishment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       3.2.1.  Motivating Scenario  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       3.2.2.  Normative Behavior and Requirements  . . . . . . . . .  9
   4.  Message Formats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.1.  Port Mapping Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.2.  Port Mapping Response  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.3.  Token Verification Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     4.4.  Token Verification Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   5.  Procedures for Token Construction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   6.  Validating Tokens  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   7.  SDP Signaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     7.1.  The portmapping-req Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     7.2.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     7.3.  Example and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   8.  Address Pooling NATs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   9.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
     9.1.  Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
     9.2.  The portmapping-req Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
   10. IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
     10.1. Registration of SDP Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
     10.2. Registration of RTCP Control Packet Types  . . . . . . . . 27
     10.3. SMT Values for TOKEN Packet Type Registry  . . . . . . . . 27
     10.4. RAMS Response Code Space Registry  . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   11. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33












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1.  Introduction

   In (any-source or source-specific) multicast RTP applications,
   destination ports, i.e., the ports on which the multicast receivers
   receive the RTP and RTCP packets, are defined declaratively.  In
   other words, the receivers cannot choose their receive ports and the
   sender(s) use the pre-defined ports.

   In unicast RTP applications, the receiving end needs to choose its
   ports for RTP and RTCP since these ports are local resources and only
   the receiving end can determine which ports are available to use.  In
   addition, Network Address Port Translators (NAPT - hereafter simply
   called NAT) devices are commonly deployed in networks, thus, static
   port assignments cannot be used.  The receiving may convey its
   request to the sending end through different ways, one of which is
   the Offer/Answer Model [RFC3264] for the Session Description Protocol
   (SDP) [RFC4566].  However, the Offer/Answer Model requires offer/
   answer exchange(s) between the endpoints, and the resulting delay may
   not be desirable in delay-sensitive real-time applications.
   Furthermore, the Offer/Answer Model may be burdensome for the
   endpoints that are concurrently running a large number of unicast
   sessions with other endpoints.

   In this specification, we consider an RTP application that uses one
   or more unicast and multicast RTP sessions together.  While the
   declaration and selection of the ports are well defined and work well
   for multicast and unicast RTP applications, respectively, the usage
   of the ports introduces complications when a receiving end mixes
   unicast and multicast RTP sessions within the same RTP application.

   An example scenario is where the RTP packets are distributed through
   source-specific multicast (SSM) and a receiver sends unicast RTCP
   NACK feedback to a local repair server (also functioning as a unicast
   RTCP feedback target) [RFC5760] asking for a retransmission of the
   packets it is missing, and the local repair server sends the
   retransmission packets over a unicast RTP session [RFC4588].

   Another scenario is where a receiver wants to rapidly acquire a new
   primary multicast RTP session and receives one or more RTP burst
   packets over a unicast session before joining the SSM session
   [I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp].  Similar scenarios exist in
   applications where some part of the content is distributed through
   multicast while the receivers get additional and/or auxiliary content
   through one or more unicast connections, as sketched in Figure 1.

   In this document, we discuss this problem and introduce a solution
   that we refer to as Port Mapping.  This solution allows receivers to
   choose their desired UDP ports for RTP and RTCP in every unicast



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   session when they are running RTP applications using both unicast and
   multicast services, and offer/answer exchange is not available.  This
   solution is not applicable in cases where TCP is used as the
   transport protocol in the unicast sessions.  For such scenarios,
   refer to [RFC4145].


          -----------
         |  Unicast  |................
         |  Source   |.............  :
         | (Server)  |            :  :
          -----------             :  :
                                  v  v
          -----------          ----------             -----------
         | Multicast |------->|  Router  |---------->|Client RTP |
         |  Source   |        |          |..........>|Application|
          -----------          ----------             -----------
                                   | :
                                   | :                -----------
                                   | :..............>|Client RTP |
                                   +---------------->|Application|
                                                      -----------


         -------> Multicast RTP Flow
         .......> Unicast RTP Flow

     Figure 1: RTP applications simultaneously using both unicast and
                            multicast services

   In the remainder of this document, we refer to the RTP endpoints that
   serve other RTP endpoints over a unicast session as the Servers.  The
   receiving RTP endpoints are referred to as Clients.


















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2.  Requirements Notation

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].














































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3.  Token-Based Port Mapping

   Token-based Port Mapping consists of two steps:  (i) Token request
   and retrieval, and (ii) unicast session establishment.  These are
   described below.

3.1.  Token Request and Retrieval

   This first step is required to be completed only once.  Once a Token
   is retrieved from a particular server, it can be used for all the
   unicast sessions the client will be running with this particular
   server.  By default, Tokens are server specific.  However, the client
   can use the same Token to communicate with different servers if these
   servers are provided with the same secret key and algorithm used to
   generate the Token and are at least loosely clock-synchronized.  The
   Token becomes invalid if client's public IP address changes or when
   the server expires the Token.  In these cases, the client has to
   request a new Token.

   The Token is essentially an opaque encapsulation that is based on
   client's IP address (as seen by the server).  When a request is
   received, the server creates a Token for this particular client, and
   sends it back to the client.  Later, when the client wants to
   establish a unicast session, the Token will be validated by the
   server, making sure that the IP address information matches.  This is
   effective against DoS attacks, e.g., an attacker cannot simply spoof
   another client's IP address and start a unicast transmission towards
   random clients.

3.2.  Unicast Session Establishment

   The second step is the unicast session establishment.  We illustrate
   this step with an example.  First, we describe the motivation
   scenario and then define the normative behavior and requirements.

3.2.1.  Motivating Scenario

   Consider an SSM distribution network where a distribution source
   multicasts RTP packets to a large number of clients, and one or more
   retransmission servers function as feedback targets to collect
   unicast RTCP feedback from these clients [RFC5760].  The
   retransmission servers also join the multicast session to receive the
   multicast packets and cache them for a certain time period.  When a
   client detects missing packets in the multicast session, it requests
   a retransmission from one of the retransmission servers by using an
   RTCP NACK message [RFC4585].  The retransmission server pulls the
   requested packet(s) out of the cache and retransmits them to the
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   The RTP and RTCP flows pertaining to the scenario described above are
   sketched in Figure 2.  Between the client and server, there can be
   one or more NAT devices [RFC4787].


     --------------                                 ---     ----------
    |              |-------------------------------|   |-->|P1        |
    |              |-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-|   |.->|P2        |
    |              |                               |   |   |          |
    | Distribution |      ----------------         |   |   |          |
    |    Source    |     |                |        |   |   |          |
    |              |---->|P1              |        |   |   |          |
    |              |.-.->|P2              |        |   |   |          |
    |              |     |                |        |   |   |          |
     --------------      |              P3|<.=.=.=.|   |=.=|*c0       |
                         |              P3|<~~~~~~~|   |~~~|*c1       |
    MULTICAST RTP        |                |        |   |   |          |
    SESSION with         |                |        |   |   |          |
    UNICAST FEEDBACK     |                |        | N |   |          |
                         | Retransmission |        | A |   |  Client  |
    - - - - - - - - - - -| - - - - - - - -| - - - -| - |- -| - - - - -|-
                         |     Server     |        | T |   |          |
                         |                |        |   |   |          |
    PORT MAPPING         |              PT|<~~~~~~~|   |~~>|*cT       |
                         |                |        |   |   |          |
    - - - - - - - - - - -| - - - - - - - -| - - - -| - |- -| - - - - -|-
                         |                |        |   |   |          |
    AUXILIARY UNICAST    |                |        |   |   |          |
    RTP SESSION          |                |        |   |   |          |
                         |              P3|........|   |..>|*c1       |
                         |              P3|=.=.=.=.|   |=.>|*c1       |
                         |              P4|<.=.=.=.|   |=.=|*c2       |
                         |                |        |   |   |          |
                          ----------------          ---     ----------


    -------> Multicast RTP Flow
    .-.-.-.> Multicast RTCP Flow
    .=.=.=.> Unicast RTCP Reports
    ~~~~~~~> Unicast RTCP (Feedback) Messages
    .......> Unicast RTP Flow

    Figure 2: Example scenario showing an SSM distribution with support
                     for retransmissions from a server

   In Figure 2, we have the following multicast and unicast ports:





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   o  Ports P1 and P2 denote the destination RTP and RTCP ports in the
      multicast session, respectively.  The clients listen to these
      ports to receive the multicast RTP and RTCP packets.  Ports P1 and
      P2 are defined declaratively.

   o  Port P3 denotes the RTCP port on the feedback target running on
      the retransmission server to collect any RTCP packet sent by the
      clients including feedback messages, and RTCP receiver and
      extended reports.  This is also the port that the retransmission
      server uses to send the RTP packets and RTCP sender reports in the
      unicast session.  Port P3 is defined declaratively.

   o  Port P4 denotes the RTCP port on the retransmission server used to
      collect the RTCP receiver and extended reports for the unicast
      session.  Port P4 is defined declaratively.

   o  Ports *c0, *c1 and *c2 are chosen by the client. *c0 denotes the
      port on the client used to send the RTCP reports for the multicast
      session. *c1 denotes the port on the client used to send the
      unicast RTCP feedback messages in the multicast session and to
      receive the RTP packets and RTCP sender reports in the unicast
      session. *c2 denotes the port on the client used to send the RTCP
      receiver and extended reports in the unicast session.  Ports c0,
      c1 and c2 could be the same port or different ports.  There are
      two advantages of using the same port for both c0 and c1:

      1.  Some NATs only keep bindings active when a packet goes from
          the inside to the outside of the NAT (See REQ-6 of Section 4.3
          of [RFC4787]).  When the gap between the packets sent from the
          client to the server is long, this can exceed that timeout.
          If c0=c1, the occasional (periodic) RTCP receiver reports sent
          from port c0 (for the multicast session's RTCP port P3) will
          ensure the NAT does not time out the public port associated
          with the incoming unicast traffic to port c1.

      2.  Having c0=c1 conserves NAT port bindings.

   o  Ports PT and *cT denote the ports through which the Token request
      and retrieval occur at the server and client sides, respectively.
      Port PT is declared on a per unicast session basis, although the
      same port could be used for two or more unicast sessions sourced
      by the server.  A Token once requested and retrieved by a client
      from port PT remains valid until its expiration time.

   We assume that the information declaratively defined is available as
   part of the session description information and is provided to the
   clients.  The Session Description Protocol (SDP) [RFC4566] and other
   session description methods can be used for this purpose.



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3.2.2.  Normative Behavior and Requirements

   In this section, we describe the normative behavior and requirements.
   To simplify the presentation, we refer to the port numbers described
   in the example presented in Figure 2.  However, the behavior and
   requirements described here are not specific to that particular
   example.

   The following steps summarize the Token-based solution:

   1.  The client ascertains server address and port numbers (P3, P4 and
       PT) from the session description.  Port P4 MUST be different from
       port P3.  Port PT MAY be equal to port P3.

   2.  The client selects its local port numbers (*c0, *c1, *c2 and
       *cT).  It is strongly RECOMMENDED that the client uses the same
       port for c0 and c1.  Port cT MAY be equal to ports c0 and c1.

       A client cannot keep using the same receive port for different
       unicast sessions since there could be packet leakage when
       switching from one unicast session to another unless each
       received unicast stream has its own distinct Synchronization
       Source (SSRC) identifier to allow the client to filter out the
       undesired packets.  Unless this is guaranteed (which is not often
       easy), a client SHOULD use separate receive ports for subsequent
       unicast sessions.  After a sufficient time, a previously used
       receive port could be used again.

   3.  If the client does not have a Token (or the existing Token has
       expired):

       A.  The client first sends a message to the server via a new RTCP
           message, called Port Mapping Request to port PT.  This
           message is sent from port *cT on the client side.  The server
           learns client's public IP address from the received message.
           The client can send this message anytime it wants (e.g.,
           during initialization), and does not normally ever need to
           re-send this message (See Section 6).

       B.  The server generates an opaque encapsulation (i.e., the
           Token) based on certain information including client's IP
           address.

       C.  The server sends the Token back to the client using a new
           RTCP message, called Port Mapping Response.  This message
           MUST be sent from port PT to port cT.





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   4.  The client needs to provide the Token to the server using a new
       RTCP message, called Token Verification Request, whenever the
       client sends an RTCP feedback message for triggering or
       controlling a unicast session (See Section 4.3).  Note that the
       unicast session is only established after the server has received
       a feedback message (along with a valid Token) from the client for
       which it needs to react by sending unicast data.  Until a unicast
       session is established, neither the server nor the client needs
       to send RTCP reports for the unicast session.

   5.  Normal flows ensue as shown in Figure 2.  Note that in the
       unicast session, traffic from the server to the client (i.e.,
       both the RTP and RTCP packets sent from port P3 to port c1) MUST
       be multiplexed on the (same) port c1.  If the client uses the
       same port for both c0 and c1, the RTCP reports sent for the
       multicast session keep the P3->c1(=c0) binding alive.  If the
       client uses different ports for c0 and c1, the client needs to
       periodically send an explicit keep-alive message
       [I-D.ietf-avt-app-rtp-keepalive] to keep the P3->c1 binding alive
       during the lifetime of the unicast session if the unicast
       session's lifetime is likely to exceed the NAT's timeout value.






























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4.  Message Formats

   This section defines the formats of the RTCP messages that are
   exchanged between a server and a client for the purpose of port
   mapping.  A new RTCP control packet type is introduced and four port
   mapping messages using this control packet are defined:

   1.  Port Mapping Request

   2.  Port Mapping Response

   3.  Token Verification Request

   4.  Token Verification Failure

   Each message has a fixed-length field for version (V), padding (P),
   sub-message type (SMT), packet type (PT), length and SSRC of packet
   sender.  Messages have other fields as defined below.  In all
   messages defined in this section, the PT field is set to TOKEN (210).
   Individual messages are identified by the SMT field.  The length
   field indicates the message size in 32-bit words minus one, including
   the header and any padding.  This definition is in line with the
   definition of the length field used in RTCP sender and receiver
   reports.  In all messages, any Reserved field SHALL be set to zero
   and ignored.

   Following the rules specified in [RFC3550], all integer fields in the
   messages defined below are carried in network-byte order, that is,
   most significant byte (octet) first, also known as big-endian.
   Unless otherwise stated, numeric constants are in decimal (base 10).

   Note that RTCP is not a timely or reliable protocol.  The RTCP
   packets might get lost or re-ordered in the network.  When sending a
   new Port Mapping Request message, the scheduling rules that apply to
   sending initial RTCP messages [RFC4585] apply.  When a client sends a
   Port Mapping Request or Token Verification Request message but it
   does not receive a response back from the server (either a Port
   Mapping Response or Token Verification Failure message), it MAY
   resend its request by following the timer rules defined for RTCP
   feedback messages in Section 3.5 of [RFC4585] as a good practice.
   When sending an RTCP (feedback) message bundled with a Token
   Verification Request message, the timer rules of [RFC4585] apply as
   usual.

4.1.  Port Mapping Request

   The Port Mapping Request message is identified by SMT=1.  This
   message is transmitted by the client to a dedicated server port (and



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   possibly an address) to request a Token.  In the Port Mapping Request
   message, the packet sender SSRC is set to the client's SSRC.  The
   packet format has the structure depicted in Figure 3.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |V=2|P|  SMT=1  |  PT=TOKEN=210 |         Length=3              |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                      SSRC of Packet Sender                    |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                             Random                            |
     |                             Nonce                             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

       Figure 3: Packet format for the Port Mapping Request message

   o  Random Nonce (64 bits):  Mandatory field that contains a random
      nonce value generated by the client following the procedures of
      [RFC4086].  This nonce is taken into account by the server when
      generating a Token for the client to enable better security for
      clients that share the same IP address.  If the Port Mapping
      Request message is transmitted multiple times for redundancy
      reasons, the random nonce value MUST remain the same in these
      duplicated messages.  However, the client MUST generate a new
      random nonce for every new Port Mapping Request message.

4.2.  Port Mapping Response

   The Port Mapping Response message is identified by SMT=2.  This
   message is sent by the server and delivers the Token to the client as
   a response to the Port Mapping Request message.  In the Port Mapping
   Response message, the packet sender SSRC is set to the server's SSRC.
   The packet format has the structure depicted in Figure 4.

















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      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |V=2|P|  SMT=2  |  PT=TOKEN=210 |          Length               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                      SSRC of Packet Sender                    |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                    SSRC of Requesting Client                  |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                           Associated                          |
     |                             Nonce                             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     :                         Token Element                         :
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                            Absolute                           |
     |                         Expiration Time                       |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Relative Expiration Time                  |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

       Figure 4: Packet format for the Port Mapping Response message

   o  SSRC of Requesting Client (32 bits):  Mandatory field that
      contains the SSRC of the client who sent the request.

   o  Associated Nonce (64 bits):  Mandatory field that contains the
      nonce received in the Port Mapping Request message and used in
      Token construction.

   o  Token Element (Variable size):  Mandatory element that is used to
      carry the Token generated by the server.  This element is a
      Length-Value element.  The Length field, which is 8 bits,
      indicates the length (in octets) of the Value field that follows
      the Length field.  The Value field carries the Token (or more
      accurately, the output of the encoding process on the server).

   o  Absolute Expiration Time (64 bits):  Mandatory field that contains
      the absolute expiration time of the Token.  The absolute
      expiration time is expressed as a Network Time Protocol (NTP)
      timestamp value in seconds since year 1900 [RFC5905].  The client
      does not need to use this element directly, thus, does not need to
      synchronize its clock with the server.  However, the client needs
      to send this element back to the server along with the associated
      nonce in the Token Verification Request message, thus, needs to
      keep it associated with the Token.

   o  Relative Expiration Time (32 bits):  Mandatory field that contains
      the relative expiration time of the Token.  The relative



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      expiration time is expressed in seconds from the time the Token
      was generated.  A relative expiration time of zero indicates that
      the accompanying Token is not valid.

      The server conveys the relative expiration time in the clear to
      the client to allow the client to request a new Token well before
      the expiration time.

4.3.  Token Verification Request

   The Token Verification Request message is identified by SMT=3.  This
   message contains the Token and accompanies any RTCP message that
   would trigger a new or control an existing unicast session.
   Currently, the following RTCP messages are REQUIRED to be accompanied
   by a Token Verification Request message:

   o  Messages that trigger a new unicast session:

      *  NACK messages [RFC4585]

      *  RAMS-R messages [I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp]

   o  Messages that control an existing unicast session associated with
      a multicast session:

      *  BYE messages [RFC3550]

      *  RAMS-T messages [I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp]

      *  CCM messages [RFC5104]

   Other RTCP messages defined in the future, which could be abused to
   cause packet amplification attacks, SHOULD also be authenticated
   using the mechanism described in this document.  The Token
   Verification Request message might also be bundled with packets
   carrying RTCP receiver or extended reports.  While such packets do
   not have a strong security impact, a specific application might
   desire to have a more controlled reporting scheme from the clients.

   In the Token Verification Request message, the packet sender SSRC is
   set to the client's SSRC.  The client MUST NOT send a Token
   Verification Request message with a Token that has expired.  The
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      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |V=2|P|  SMT=3  |  PT=TOKEN=210 |          Length               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                      SSRC of Packet Sender                    |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                           Associated                          |
     |                             Nonce                             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     :                         Token Element                         :
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                       Associated Absolute                     |
     |                         Expiration Time                       |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

    Figure 5: Packet format for the Token Verification Request message

   o  Associated Nonce (64 bits):  Mandatory field that contains the
      nonce associated with the Token above.

   o  Token Element (Variable size):  Mandatory Token element that was
      previously received in the Port Mapping Response message.

   o  Associated Absolute Expiration Time (64 bits):  Mandatory field
      that contains the absolute expiration time associated with the
      Token above.

4.4.  Token Verification Failure

   The Token Verification Failure message is identified by SMT=4.  This
   message is sent by the server and notifies the client that the Token
   was invalid or that the client did not include a Token Verification
   Request message in the RTCP packet although it was supposed to.  In
   the Token Verification Failure message, the packet sender SSRC is set
   to the server's SSRC.  The packet format has the structure depicted
   in Figure 6.














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      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |V=2|P|  SMT=4  |  PT=TOKEN=210 |         Length=4              |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                      SSRC of Packet Sender                    |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                    SSRC of Requesting Client                  |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                           Associated                          |
     |                             Nonce                             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

    Figure 6: Packet format for the Token Verification Failure message

   o  SSRC of Requesting Client (32 bits):  Mandatory field that
      contains the SSRC of the client who sent the verification request.

   o  Associated Nonce (64 bits):  Mandatory field that contains the
      nonce received in the Token Verification Request message.  If
      there was no Token Verification Request message included by the
      client, this field is set to 0.





























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5.  Procedures for Token Construction

   The Token encoding is known to the server but opaque to the client.
   Implementations MUST encode the following information into the Token
   as a minimum, in order to provide adequate security:

   o  Client's IP address as seen by the server (32/128 bits for IPv4/
      IPv6 addresses)

   o  The nonce generated and inserted in the Port Mapping Request
      message by the client (64 bits)

   o  The absolute expiration time chosen by the server indicated as an
      NTP timestamp value in seconds since year 1900 [RFC5905] (64 bits,
      to protect against replay attacks)

   An example way for constructing Tokens is to perform HMAC-SHA1
   [RFC2104] on the concatenated values of the information listed above.
   The HMAC key should be at least 160 bits long, and generated using a
   cryptographically secure random source [RFC4086].  However,
   implementations MAY adopt different approaches and are encouraged to
   encode whatever additional information is deemed necessary or useful.
   For example, key rollover is simplified by encoding a key-id into the
   Token.  As another example, a cluster of anycast servers could find
   advantage by encoding a server identifier into the Token.  As another
   example, if HMAC-SHA1 has been compromised, a replacement HMAC
   algorithm could be used instead (e.g., HMAC-SHA256).

   To protect from offline attacks, the server SHOULD occasionally
   choose a new HMAC key.  To ease implementation, a key-id can be
   assigned to each HMAC key.  This can be encoded as simply as one bit
   (where the new key is X (e.g., 1) and the old key is the inverted
   value of X (e.g., 0)), or if several keys are supported at once could
   be encoded into several bits.  As the encoding of the Token is
   entirely private to the server and opaque to the clients, any
   encoding can be used.  By encoding the key-id into the Token element,
   the server can reject an old key without bothering to do HMAC
   validation (saving CPU cycles).  The key-id can be encoded into the
   Value field of the Token element by simply concatenating the
   (plaintext) key-id with the hashed information (i.e., the Token
   itself).

   For example, the Value field in the Token element can be computed as:

          key-id || hash-alg (client-ip | nonce | abs-expiration)

   During Token construction, the expiration time has to be chosen
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   valid for an unnecessarily long period of time (e.g., several hours)
   might impose security risks.  Depending on the application and use
   cases, a reasonable value needs to be chosen by the server.  Note
   that using shorter lifetimes requires the clients to acquire Tokens
   more frequently.  However, since a client can acquire a new Token
   well before it will need to use it, the client will not necessarily
   be penalized for the acquisition delay.

   Finally, be aware that NTP timestamps will wrap around in year 2036
   and implementations might need to handle this eventually.  Refer to
   Section 6 of [RFC5905] for further details.








































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6.  Validating Tokens

   Upon receipt of an RTCP feedback message along with the Token
   Verification Request message that contains a Token, nonce and
   absolute expiration time, the server MUST validate the Token.

   The server first applies the its own procedure for constructing the
   Tokens by using client's IP address from the received Token
   Verification Request message, and the nonce and absolute expiration
   time values reported in the received Token Verification Request
   message.  The server then compares the resulting output with the
   Token sent by the client in the Token Verification Request message.
   If they match and the absolute expiration time has not passed yet,
   the server declares that the Token is valid.

   Note that if the client's IP address changes, the Token will not
   validate.  Similarly, if the client inserts an incorrect nonce or
   absolute expiration time value in the Token Verification Request
   message, validation will fail.  It is also possible that the server
   wants to expire the Token prematurely.  In these cases, the server
   MUST reply back to the client with a Token Verification Failure
   message (that goes from port P3 on the server to port c1 on the
   client).

   In addition to the Token Verification Failure message, it is
   RECOMMENDED that applications define an application-specific error
   response to be sent by the server when the server detects that the
   Token is invalid.  For applications using
   [I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp], this document defines a new
   4xx-level response code in the RAMS Response Code Space Registry.  A
   client that received a Token Verification Failure message can request
   a new Token from the server.



















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7.  SDP Signaling

7.1.  The portmapping-req Attribute

   This new SDP attribute is used declaratively to indicate the port and
   optionally the address for obtaining a Token.  Its presence indicates
   that (i) a Token MUST be included in the feedback messages sent to
   the server triggering or controlling a unicast session (See
   Section 4.3 for details), and (ii) the client MUST receive the
   unicast session's RTP and RTCP packets from the server on the port
   from which it sent the RTCP message triggering or controlling the
   unicast session.

   The formal description of the 'portmapping-req' attribute is defined
   by the following ABNF [RFC5234] syntax:

   portmapping-req-attribute = "a=portmapping-req:" [port [SP nettype SP
                                addrtype SP connection-address]] CRLF

   Here, 'port', 'nettype', 'addrtype' and 'connection-address' are
   defined as specified in Section 9 of [RFC4566].  The 'portmapping-
   req' attribute is used as a session-level or media-level attribute.
   If used at a media level, the attribute MUST be used in a unicast
   media block.

      Note:  This does not imply that Token Verification Request
      messages need to be sent in the unicast session.  Token
      Verification Request messages accompany RTCP messages that trigger
      or control this unicast session, and are sent either in the
      multicast session or the unicast session, depending on the RTCP
      message (See Section 4.3).

   In the optional address value, only unicast addresses are allowed;
   multicast addresses SHOULD NOT be used without evaluating the
   additional security risks such as non-legit servers generating fake
   Tokens.  If the address is not specified, the (source) address in the
   "c" line corresponding to the unicast media stream is implied.

   When using this SDP attribute in SDP offer/answer [RFC3264], the
   following needs to be considered.  This attribute is used
   declaratively.  If included at session level, this applies to all
   media lines that uses RTP.  If included at media level, it applies to
   the RTCP feedback messages declared by this media block.

   An offerer that desires the answerer to use Tokens in any RTCP
   message sent to the offerer, i.e., received by the offerer, the
   attribute is included.  In case an offerer desires to declare support
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   Tokens to be included for any RTCP messages to be received by the
   offerer, it can include the 'portmapping-req' attribute without any
   parameters, neither port nor address, either at a session or media
   level.

   An answerer receiving an SDP offer with the "a=portmapping-req" line
   with a port number SHALL use that port number and the address, either
   explicitly provided in the attribute or implicitly provided by the
   "c" line, for any needed Token request.  If the "a=portmapping-req"
   line attribute does not contain a port, the answer SHALL take note of
   the capability.

   When sending an answer, if the 'portmapping-req' attribute has been
   present in the offer including a port number and the answerer
   supports this specification, then the answerer MUST include the
   attribute in its answer.  The answer may or may not include a port
   and address.  This depends on the application and the desire of the
   answerer.  The answerer includes a port and possibly an address when
   it requires to receive Tokens in RTCP messages.  If it only supports
   this specification but does not need Tokens to be included, the
   attribute is included without any port or address.

7.2.  Requirements

   The use of SDP for the port mapping solution normatively requires the
   support for:

   o  The SDP grouping framework and flow identification (FID) semantics
      [RFC5888]

   o  The RTP/AVPF profile [RFC4585]

   o  The RTCP extensions for SSM sessions with unicast feedback
      [RFC5760]

   o  The 'multicast-rtcp' attribute [I-D.ietf-avt-rtcp-port-for-ssm]

   o  Multiplexing RTP and RTCP on a single port on both endpoints in
      the unicast session [RFC5761]

7.3.  Example and Discussion

   The declarative SDP describing the scenario given in Figure 2 is
   written as:







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        v=0
        o=ali 1122334455 1122334466 IN IP4 nack.example.com
        s=Local Retransmissions
        t=0 0
        a=group:FID 1 2
        a=rtcp-unicast:rsi
        m=video 41000 RTP/AVPF 98
        i=Multicast Stream
        c=IN IP4 233.252.0.2/255
        a=source-filter:incl IN IP4 233.252.0.2 198.51.100.1   ; Note 1
        a=rtpmap:98 MP2T/90000
        a=multicast-rtcp:41500                                 ; Note 1
        a=rtcp:42000 IN IP4 192.0.2.1                          ; Note 2
        a=rtcp-fb:98 nack                                      ; Note 2
        a=mid:1
        m=video 42000 RTP/AVPF 99                              ; Note 3
        i=Unicast Retransmission Stream
        c=IN IP4 192.0.2.1
        a=sendonly
        a=rtpmap:99 rtx/90000
        a=rtcp-mux                                             ; Note 4
        a=rtcp:42500                                           ; Note 5
        a=fmtp:99 apt=98; rtx-time=5000
        a=portmapping-req:30000                                ; Note 6
        a=mid:2

       Figure 7: SDP describing an SSM distribution with support for
                    retransmissions from a local server

   In this description, we highlight the following notes:

   Note 1:  The source stream is multicast from a distribution source
   with a source IP address of 198.51.100.1 to the multicast destination
   address of 233.252.0.2 and port 41000 (P1).  The associated RTCP
   packets are multicast in the same group to port 41500 (P2).

   Note 2:  A retransmission server including feedback target
   functionality with an IP address of 192.0.2.1 and port of 42000 (P3)
   is specified with the 'rtcp' attribute.  The feedback functionality
   is enabled for the RTP stream with payload type 98 through the
   'rtcp-fb' attribute [RFC4585].

   Note 3:  The port specified in the second "m" line (for the unicast
   stream) does not mean anything in this scenario as the client does
   not send any RTP traffic back to the server.

   Note 4:  The server multiplexes RTP and RTCP packets on the same port
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   Note 5:  The server uses port 42500 (P4) for the unicast sessions.

   Note 6:  The "a=portmapping-req" line indicates that a Token needs to
   be retrieved first before a unicast session associated to the
   multicast session can be established and that the Port Mapping
   Request message needs to be sent to port 30000 (PT).  Since there is
   no address indiciated in this line, the client needs to retrieve the
   Token from the address specified in the "c" line.











































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8.  Address Pooling NATs

   Large-scale NAT devices have a pool of public IPv4 addresses and map
   internal hosts to one of those public IPv4 addresses.  As long as an
   internal host maintains an active mapping in the NAT, the same IPv4
   address is assigned to new connections.  However, once all of the
   host's mappings have been deleted (e.g., because of timeout), it is
   possible that a new connection from that same host will be assigned a
   different IPv4 address from the pool.  When that occurs, the Token
   will be considered invalid by the server, causing an additional round
   trip for the client to acquire a fresh Token.

   Any traffic from the host which traverses the NAT will prevent this
   problem.  As the host is sending RTCP receiver reports at least every
   5 seconds (Section 6.2 of [RFC3550]) for the multicast session it is
   receiving, those RTCP messages will be sufficient to prevent this
   problem.


































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9.  Security Considerations

9.1.  Tokens

   The Token, which is generated based on a client's IP address and
   expiration date, provides protection against denial-of-service (DoS)
   attacks.  An attacker using a certain IP address cannot cause one or
   more RTP packets to be sent to a victim client who has a different IP
   address.  However, if the attacker acquires a valid Token for a
   victim and can spoof the victim's source address, this approach
   becomes vulnerable to replay attacks.  This is especially easy if the
   attacker and victim are behind a large-scale NAT and share the same
   IP address.

   Multicast is deployed on managed networks - not the Internet.  These
   managed networks will choose to enable network ingress filtering
   [RFC2827] or not.  If ingress filtering is enabled on a network, an
   attacker attacker cannot spoof a victim's IP address to use a Token
   to initiate an attack against a victim.  However, if ingress
   filtering is not enabled on a network, an attacker could obtain a
   Token and spoof the victim's address, causing traffic to flood the
   victim.  On such a network, the server can reduce the time period for
   such an attack by expiring a Token in a short period of time.  In the
   extreme case, the server can expire the Token in such a short period
   of time, such that the client will have to acquire a new Token
   immediately before using it in a Token Verification Request message.

   HMAC-SHA1 provides a level of security that is widely regarded as
   being more than sufficient for providing message authentication.  It
   is believed that the economic cost of breaking that algorithm is
   significantly higher than the cost of more direct approaches to
   violating system security, e.g., theft, bribery, wiretapping, and
   other forms of malfeasance.  HMAC-SHA1 is secure against all known
   cryptanalytic attacks that use computational resources that are
   currently economically feasible.

9.2.  The portmapping-req Attribute

   The 'portmapping-req' attribute is not believed to introduce any
   significant security risk to multimedia applications.  A malevolent
   third party could use this attribute to redirect the Port Mapping
   Request messages by altering the port number or cause the unicast
   session establishment to fail by removing it from the SDP
   description.  But, this requires intercepting and rewriting the
   packets carrying the SDP description; and if an interceptor can do
   that, many more attacks are possible, including a wholesale change of
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   In order to avoid attacks of this sort, the SDP description needs to
   be integrity protected and provided with source authentication.  This
   can, for example, be achieved on an end-to-end basis using S/MIME
   [RFC5652] when SDP is used in a signaling packet using MIME types
   (application/sdp).  Alternatively, HTTPS [RFC2818] or the
   authentication method in the Session Announcement Protocol (SAP)
   [RFC2974] could be used as well.












































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10.  IANA Considerations

   The following contact information shall be used for all registrations
   in this document:

   Ali Begen
   abegen@cisco.com


   Note to the RFC Editor:  In the following, please replace "XXXX" with
   the number of this document prior to publication as an RFC.

10.1.  Registration of SDP Attributes

   This document registers a new attribute name in SDP.


        SDP Attribute ("att-field"):
        Attribute name:     portmapping-req
        Long form:          Port for requesting Token
        Type of name:       att-field
        Type of attribute:  Either session or media level
        Subject to charset: No
        Purpose:            See this document
        Reference:          [RFCXXXX]
        Values:             See this document

10.2.  Registration of RTCP Control Packet Types

   In accordance with Section 15 of [RFC3550], this specification adds
   the following value to the RTCP Control Packet types sub-registry of
   the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Parameters registry:


 Value     Abbrev.    Name                                     Reference
 --------  ---------  ---------------------------------------  ---------
 210       TOKEN      Port Mapping                             [RFCXXXX]


10.3.  SMT Values for TOKEN Packet Type Registry

   This document creates a new sub-registry for the sub-message type
   (SMT) values to be used with the TOKEN packet type.  The registry is
   called the SMT Values for TOKEN Packet Type Registry.  This registry
   is to be managed by the IANA according to the Specification Required
   policy of [RFC5226].

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   registry is initialized with the following entries:


  Value Name                                               Reference
  ----- -------------------------------------------------- -------------
  0     Reserved                                           [RFCXXXX]
  1     Port Mapping Request                               [RFCXXXX]
  2     Port Mapping Response                              [RFCXXXX]
  3     Token Verification Request                         [RFCXXXX]
  4     Token Verification Failure                         [RFCXXXX]
  5-30                          Assignable - Specification Required
  31    Reserved                                           [RFCXXXX]


   The SMT values 0 and 31 are reserved for future use.

   Any registration for an unassigned SMT value needs to contain the
   following information:

   o  Contact information of the one doing the registration, including
      at least name and email.

   o  A detailed description of what the new SMT represents and how it
      shall be interpreted.

10.4.  RAMS Response Code Space Registry

   This document adds the following entry to the RAMS Response Code
   Space Registry.


  Code  Description                                        Reference
  ----- -------------------------------------------------- -------------
  405   Invalid Token                                      [RFCXXXX]

   This response code is used when the Token included by the RTP_Rx in
   the RAMS-R message is invalid.














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11.  Acknowledgments

   The approach presented in this document came out after discussions
   with various individuals in the AVT and MMUSIC WGs, and the breakout
   session held in the Anaheim meeting.  We thank each of these
   individuals, in particular to Magnus Westerlund and Colin Perkins.













































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12.  References

12.1.  Normative References

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

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

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

   [RFC4585]  Ott, J., Wenger, S., Sato, N., Burmeister, C., and J. Rey,
              "Extended RTP Profile for Real-time Transport Control
              Protocol (RTCP)-Based Feedback (RTP/AVPF)", RFC 4585,
              July 2006.

   [RFC5760]  Ott, J., Chesterfield, J., and E. Schooler, "RTP Control
              Protocol (RTCP) Extensions for Single-Source Multicast
              Sessions with Unicast Feedback", RFC 5760, February 2010.

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

   [RFC4086]  Eastlake, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, "Randomness
              Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, June 2005.

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

   [RFC2104]  Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
              Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104,
              February 1997.

   [I-D.ietf-avt-rtcp-port-for-ssm]
              Begen, A., "RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Port for Source-
              Specific Multicast (SSM) Sessions",
              draft-ietf-avt-rtcp-port-for-ssm-03 (work in progress),
              October 2010.

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

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



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12.2.  Informative References

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

   [RFC4145]  Yon, D. and G. Camarillo, "TCP-Based Media Transport in
              the Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 4145,
              September 2005.

   [I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp]
              Steeg, B., Begen, A., Caenegem, T., and Z. Vax, "Unicast-
              Based Rapid Acquisition of Multicast RTP Sessions",
              draft-ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp-17 (work in
              progress), November 2010.

   [RFC4787]  Audet, F. and C. Jennings, "Network Address Translation
              (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP", BCP 127,
              RFC 4787, January 2007.

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

   [I-D.ietf-avt-app-rtp-keepalive]
              Marjou, X. and A. Sollaud, "Application Mechanism for
              keeping alive the Network Address Translator (NAT)
              mappings associated to RTP flows.",
              draft-ietf-avt-app-rtp-keepalive-09 (work in progress),
              September 2010.

   [RFC2827]  Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
              Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source
              Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, May 2000.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

   [RFC5104]  Wenger, S., Chandra, U., Westerlund, M., and B. Burman,
              "Codec Control Messages in the RTP Audio-Visual Profile
              with Feedback (AVPF)", RFC 5104, February 2008.

   [RFC5652]  Housley, R., "Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", STD 70,
              RFC 5652, September 2009.

   [RFC2818]  Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.




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   [RFC2974]  Handley, M., Perkins, C., and E. Whelan, "Session
              Announcement Protocol", RFC 2974, October 2000.

















































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Authors' Addresses

   Ali Begen
   Cisco
   181 Bay Street
   Toronto, ON  M5J 2T3
   Canada

   Email:  abegen@cisco.com


   Dan Wing
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   170 West Tasman Dr.
   San Jose, CA  95134
   USA

   Email:  dwing@cisco.com


   Tom VanCaenegem
   Alcatel-Lucent
   Copernicuslaan 50
   Antwerpen,   2018
   Belgium

   Email:  Tom.Van_Caenegem@alcatel-lucent.com
























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