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                                               Colin Perkins
                                                     USC/ISI



      RTP Audio/Video Profile Interoperability Statement

             draft-ietf-avt-profile-interop-03.txt


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                         Abstract


    It is required to demonstrate interoperability of implementations
    in order to move the RTP audio/video profile to draft standard.
    This memo outlines those features to be tested, as the first
    stage of an interoperability statement.



1 Introduction

The Internet standards process [1] places a number of requirements
on a standards track protocol specification.  In particular, when
advancing a protocol from proposed standard to draft standard it

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is necessary to demonstrate at least two independent and interoperable
implementations, from different code bases, of all options and features of
that protocol.  Further, in cases where one or more options or features
have not been demonstrated in at least two interoperable implementations,
the specification may advance to the draft standard level only if those
options or features are removed.  The RTP Profile for Audio and Video
Conferences with Minimal Control was originally specified in RFC1890 as a
proposed standard [2].  The revision of this specification for draft
standard status is now well underway, so it has become necessary to conduct
such an interoperability demonstration.

This memo describes the set of features and options of the RTP Audio/Video
profile which need to be tested as a basis for this demonstration.

This memo is for information only and does not specify a standard
of any kind.


2 Features and options required to demonstrate interoperability


In order to demonstrate interoperability it is required to produce
a statement of interoperability for each feature noted below.  Such
a statement should note the pair of implementations tested, including
version numbers, and a pass/fail statement for each feature.  It
is not expected that every implementation will implement every feature,
but each feature needs to be demonstrated by some pair of applications.

The RTP specification [3] enumerates a number of items that can be
specified or modified by a profile.  Those modified from the defaults
by the audio/video profile are as follows, and interoperable behaviour
must be demonstrated:

 1. Exchange of RTCP packets with the default RTCP reporting interval.

     o  PASS: rat, IP/TV

 2. Exchange of RTCP packets with a modified RTCP reporting interval
    as selected by a different fraction of the session bandwidth
    (the means by which this interval is signalled are outside of
    the scope of this memo, but one such mechanism should be demonstrated).

     o  PASS: IP/TV, rtplib

 3. Implementations must send RTCP packets containing an SDES CNAME
    in every reporting interval.

     o  PASS: rat, IP/TV

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 4. Other SDES items must be sent every third interval, with NAME
    every 7 of 8 times within that slot and any other SDES items
    cycically taking up the 8th slot.

     o  PASS: rat, IP/TV

 5. Interoperable selection of `pass phrase' for encryption and exchange
    of media using DES encryption.  This must include mapping of
    the pass phrase to the canonical form.

     o  FAIL: does anyone do this?

 6. Interoperable transport of RTP via unicast UDP

     o  PASS: rat, vat, vic, IP/TV

 7. Interoperable transport of RTP via multicast UDP

     o  PASS: rat, vat, vic, IP/TV

 8. Interoperable transport of RTP via TCP using the encapsulation
    defined in section 7 of [2].

     o  FAIL: need to test rtplib?  Who has another implementation?
        (Atanu?  Quicktime?)

The primary purpose of the audio/video profile is to define the mapping
from payload format to payload type number.  Accordingly, the majority
of the work needed to demonstrate interoperability consists of testing
that media data is exchanged in an interoperable manner using the
full range of codecs enumerated in the profile.

The following codecs are assigned static payload types.  It should
be verified that interoperable implementations exist for each static
payload type:

 1. The 8kHz PCMU codec (payload type 0)

     o  PASS: rat, vat, fphone, IP/TV

 2. The 8kHz 1016 codec (payload type 1)

     o  FAIL

 3. The 8kHz G726-32 codec (payload type 2)

     o  FAIL: rat implements it, anyone else?  Nuera?

 4. The 8kHz GSM codec (payload type 3)

     o  PASS: rat, vat, fphone, IP/TV

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 5. The 8kHz G723 codec (payload type 4)

     o  FAIL: Nuera implement, not tested

 6. The 8kHz DVI4 codec (payload type 5)

     o  PASS: rat, vat, fphone, IP/TV

 7. The 16kHz DVI4 codec (payload type 6)

     o  FAIL: rat supports it, anyone else?  (Quicktime?)

 8. The 8kHz LPC codec (payload type 7)

     o  PASS: rat, vat, fphone

 9. The 8kHz PCMA codec (payload type 8)

     o  PASS: Nuera tested at SIP bakeoff 4 (with Cisco, Nortel, etc)

10. The 8kHz G722 codec (payload type 9)

     o  FAIL: RealAudio has it (according to Colleen Moffitt <cmoffitt@real.com>).
        Anyone else?

11. The 44.1kHz stereo L16 codec (payload type 10)

     o  FAIL: rat supports it, need to test with QuickTime

12. The 44.1kHz mono L16 codec (payload type 11)

     o  FAIL: rat supports it, need to test with QuickTime

13. The 8kHz QCELP codec (payload type 12)

     o  FAIL: Quicktime supports it, anyone else?

14. The 8kHz CN codec (payload type 13)

     o  RESERVED: no need to test for now?

15. The MPA codec (payload type 14)

     o  PASS: IP/TV, PixStream, Minerva, LiveCaster

16. The 8kHz G728 codec (payload type 15)

     o  FAIL: Nuera implement

17. The 11.025kHz DVI4 codec (payload type 16)

     o  FAIL: rat supports it, need to test with QuickTime



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18. The 22.050kHz DVI4 codec (payload type 17)

     o  FAIL: rat supports it, need to test with QuickTime

19. The 8kHz G729 codec (payload type 18)

     o  PASS: Nuera vs Cisco, Nortel, VegaStream (SIP Bakeoff 5)

The following codecs use dynamic payload types.  It should be verified
that some non-RTP means can be used to assign a dynamic payload type
to be used by implementations, and that those implementations can
then interwork.

 1. The GSM-HR codec

     o  FAIL

 2. The GSM-EFR codec

     o  FAIL: Nuera implement

 3. The L8 codec

     o  FAIL: rat supports it, anyone else?

 4. The RED codec

     o  PASS: rat, fphone

 5. The VDVI codec

     o  PASS: rat, fphone

Similarly, interoperable implementation of the following video codecs
with static payload type numbers must be demonstrated:

 1. The CelB codec (payload type 25)

     o  FAIL: Sun has an implementation?

 2. The JPEG codec (payload type 26)

     o  FAIL: Quicktime?

 3. The nv codec (payload type 28)

     o  FAIL: vic has it, who else?

 4. The H261 codec (payload type 31)

     o  PASS: IP/TV, vic, VCON, Polycom

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 5. The MPV codec (payload type 32)

     o  PASS: IP/TV, PixStream, Minerva

 6. The MP2T codec (payload type 33)

     o  FAIL

 7. The H263 codec (payload type 34)

     o  FAIL: need to test vic and Quicktime

The following codecs use dynamic payload types.  It should be verified
that some non-RTP means can be used to assign a dynamic payload type
to be used by implementations, and that those implementations can
then interwork.

 1. The BT656 codec

     o  FAIL

 2. The H263-1998 codec

     o  FAIL: quicktime has it, anyone else?

 3. The MP1S codec

     o  FAIL: quicktime has it, anyone else?

 4. The MP2P codec

     o  FAIL: quicktime has it, anyone else?

 5. The BMPEG codec

     o  FAIL

Implementations must also demonstrate interoperable use of the marker
bit.  That is, the M bit is set on the first packet of each talkspurt
for audio and on the last packet of each frame for video.


3 Author's Address

Colin Perkins
USC Information Sciences Institute
4350 North Fairfax Drive
Suite 620
Arlington, VA 22203
USA
Email:  csp@isi.edu

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4 References



[1] S. Bradner, ``The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3'',
RFC2026, Internet Engineering Task Force, October 1996.

[2] H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, ``RTP Profile for Audio and Video
Conferences with Minimal Control'', RFC1890, Internet Engineering
Task Force, January 1996.

[3] H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick and V. Jacobson, ``RTP:
A Transport Protocol to Real-Time Applications'', RFC1889, Internet
Engineering Task Force, January 1996.



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