Congestion Control Requirements for Interactive Real-Time Media
RFC 8836

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8836, changed abstract to 'Congestion control is needed for all data transported across the Internet, in order to promote fair usage and prevent congestion collapse. The requirements for interactive, point-to-point real-time multimedia, which needs low-delay, semi-reliable data delivery, are different from the requirements for bulk transfer like FTP or bursty transfers like web pages. Due to an increasing amount of RTP-based real-time media traffic on the Internet (e.g., with the introduction of the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)), it is especially important to ensure that this kind of traffic is congestion controlled.

This document describes a set of requirements that can be used to evaluate other congestion control mechanisms in order to figure out their fitness for this purpose, and in particular to provide a set of possible requirements for a real-time media congestion avoidance technique.', changed pages to 10, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2021-01-18, changed IESG state to RFC Published)