IANA Registration of the 'image' Media Type for the Session Description Protocol (SDP)
RFC 6466
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(December 2011; No errata)
Was draft-salgueiro-mmusic-image-iana-registration (individual in rai area)
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Author | Gonzalo Salgueiro | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6466 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Gonzalo Camarillo | ||
Send notices to | Miguel.A.Garcia@ericsson.com |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) G. Salgueiro Request for Comments: 6466 Cisco Systems Category: Standards Track December 2011 ISSN: 2070-1721 IANA Registration of the 'image' Media Type for the Session Description Protocol (SDP) 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. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (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. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6466. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Salgueiro Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6466 'image' Media Type Registration December 2011 Table of Contents 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Overview In an earlier version of the SDP specification [RFC2327] of 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 Track documents 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. Salgueiro Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6466 'image' Media Type Registration December 2011 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 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].Show full document text