MMUSIC G. Salgueiro
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems
Intended status: Standards Track October 10, 2011
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IANA Registration of the 'image' Media Type
for the Session Description Protocol (SDP)
draft-salgueiro-mmusic-image-iana-registration-09
Abstract
This document describes the usage of the 'image' media type and
registers it with IANA as a top-level media type for the Session
Description Protocol (SDP). This media type is primarily used by SDP
to negotiate and establish T.38 media streams.
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Table of Contents
1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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1. Conventions Used in This Document
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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
2. Overview
In an earlier version of the SDP specification [RFC2327] packetized
media types, such as those used with the Real-Time Transport Protocol
(RTP) [RFC3550], share the namespace with Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) media types registry [RFC4288] [RFC4289] (i.e.
"MIME media types"). This is in contrast to the latest version of
the SDP specification [RFC4566] which requested that an SDP-specific
media type registry be created and maintained by IANA. The top-level
SDP media content types registered by RFC 4566 [RFC4566] are "audio",
"video", "text", "application", and "message". A glaring omission
from this list is the "image" media type.
The 'image' media type is an existing top-level MIME media type and
is widely used in SDP implementations for setting up T.38 Real-Time
Facsimile [T38] media streams. This media type is extensively
referenced by examples in ITU-T T.38 [T38] and IETF standards like
RFC 4145 [RFC4145]. The following example shows the media
description of a T.38 media stream as commonly found in a Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) [RFC3261] INVITE; it contains an SDP offer
for T.38 over both UDP Transport Layer (UDPTL) and TCP. For the sake
of brevity, only the SDP body of the SIP INVITE request is displayed
in this example.
v=0
o=alice 53655765 2353687637 IN IP4 pc33.example.com
s=SDP image example
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.2
t=0 0
m=image 49170 udptl t38
a=T38FaxVersion:0
a=T38MaxBitRate:14400
a=T38FaxRateManagement:transferredTCF
a=T38FaxMaxBuffer:262
a=T38FaxMaxDatagram:90
a=T38FaxUdpEC:t38UDPRedundancy
a=sendrecv
m=image 49172 tcp t38
a=T38FaxRateManagement:localTCF
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The purpose of this document is to register with IANA the 'image'
media type as a top-level SDP media type. This ensures seamless
continuity with documentation that uses the 'image' MIME media type
and the previously registered MIME media sub-types like 'image/t38'
[RFC3362] that are used as SDP media descriptors for T.38 [T38].
This document complies with the request of section 8.2.1 of RFC 4566
[RFC4566] that indicates:
"The same rules should apply for media names as for top-level
media content types, and where possible the same name should be
registered for SDP as for MIME. For media other than existing
top-level media content types, a Standards Track RFC MUST be
produced for a new top-level content type to be registered, and
the registration MUST provide good justification why no existing
media name is appropriate."
3. IANA Considerations
This document instructs IANA to register an 'image' token in the
media sub-registry of the Session Description Protocols (SDP)
Parameters registry. This registration contains the required
information elements outlined in the SDP registration procedure
defined in Section 8.2.8 of RFC 4566 [RFC4566].
(1) Contact Information:
Name: Gonzalo Salgueiro
Email: gsalguei@cisco.com
Telephone Number: (919) 392-3266
(2) Name being registered (as it will appear in SDP): image
(3) Long-form name in English: image
(4) Type of name ('media', 'proto', 'fmt', 'bwtype', 'nettype', or
'addrtype'): media
(5) Purpose of the registered name:
The 'image' media type for the Session Description Protocol
is used to describes a media stream that represents a still
image. The media subtype further describes the specific
format of the image. Currently, the 'image' media type for
SDP is used ubiquitously by the SIP control protocol to
establish T.38 media streams.
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(6) Specification for the registered name: RFC XXXX [This document]
4. Security Considerations
The 'image' media type registered by this document in the SDP
parameters registry maintained by IANA is primarily for use by the
offer/answer model of the Session Description Protocol [RFC3264] for
the negotiation and establishment of T.38 [T38] media streams using
the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) [RFC3261]. This additional SDP
media type does not introduce any security considerations beyond
those detailed in Section 7 of RFC 4566 [RFC4566].
The security vulnerabilities in T.38 [T38] and its associated
transport protocols (TCP [RFC0793], UDP [RFC0768], and RTP [RFC3550])
are well documented in each of their respective specifications. The
ability to exchange images other than T.38 can expose the recipient
to potentially malicious executable code.
5. Acknowledgements
Thanks go to the chairs of the IETF Multiparty Multimedia Session
Control (MMUSIC) working group (Miguel A. Garcia and Flemming
Andreasen) for their guidance, encouragement, and the creation of the
media type registry. Special thanks to Miguel A. Garcia for his
thorough and insightful review of the many revisions of the draft.
This document has benefited from the discussion and review of the
MMUSIC working group, especially the detailed and thoughtful comments
and corrections of Keith Drage, Yasubumi Chimura, Kevin P. Fleming,
Bert Greevenbosch, and Gonzalo Camarillo.
The author would also like to acknowledge the considerable efforts of
Kevin P. Fleming and the members of the FoIP TG in the SIP Forum that
contributed to the new revision of the ITU-T T.38 Recommendation that
prompted the need to register the 'image' media type for SDP.
6. References
6.1. Normative References
[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.
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6.2. Informative References
[RFC0768] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
August 1980.
[RFC0793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
RFC 793, September 1981.
[RFC2327] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description
Protocol", RFC 2327, April 1998.
[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.
[RFC3362] Parsons, G., "Real-time Facsimile (T.38) - image/t38 MIME
Sub-type Registration", RFC 3362, August 2002.
[RFC3550] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V.
Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003.
[RFC4145] Yon, D. and G. Camarillo, "TCP-Based Media Transport in
the Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 4145,
September 2005.
[RFC4288] Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and
Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005.
[RFC4289] Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures",
BCP 13, RFC 4289, December 2005.
[T38] International Telecommunications Union, "Procedures for
real-time Group 3 facsimile communication over IP
Networks", ITU-T Recommendation T.38, October 2010.
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Author's Address
Gonzalo Salgueiro
Cisco Systems
7200-12 Kit Creek Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
US
Email: gsalguei@cisco.com
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