Multicast Acquisition Report Block Type for RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Reports (XRs)
RFC 6332
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Begen
Request for Comments: 6332 E. Friedrich
Category: Standards Track Cisco
ISSN: 2070-1721 July 2011
Multicast Acquisition Report Block Type for
RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Reports (XRs)
Abstract
In most RTP-based multicast applications, the RTP source sends inter-
related data. Due to this interdependency, randomly joining RTP
receivers usually cannot start consuming the multicast data right
after they join the session. Thus, they often experience a random
acquisition delay. An RTP receiver can use one or more different
approaches to achieve rapid acquisition. Yet, due to various
factors, performance of the rapid acquisition methods usually varies.
Furthermore, in some cases, the RTP receiver can do a simple
multicast join (in other cases, it is compelled to do so). For
quality reporting, monitoring, and diagnostic purposes, it is
important to collect detailed information from the RTP receivers
about their acquisition and presentation experiences. This document
addresses this issue by defining a new report block type, called the
Multicast Acquisition (MA) report block, within the framework of RTP
Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Reports (XRs) (RFC 3611). This
document also defines the necessary signaling of the new MA report
block type in the Session Description Protocol (SDP).
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Multicast Acquisition (MA) Report Block . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. Base Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.1. Status Code Rules for New MA Methods . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.2. Status Code Rules for the RAMS Method . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2.1. Vendor-Neutral Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2.2. Private Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Session Description Protocol Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. RTCP XR Block Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. RTCP XR SDP Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.3. Multicast Acquisition Method Registry . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.4. Multicast Acquisition Report Block TLV Space Registry . . 12
7.5. Multicast Acquisition Status Code Space Registry . . . . . 13
8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
The RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) is the out-of-band control protocol
for applications that use the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for
media transport [RFC3550]. In addition to providing minimal control
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