The IESG has approved following document: - 'RTP Payload Format for Transport of MPEG-4 Elementary Streams ' <draft-ietf-avt-mpeg4-simple-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Audio/Video Transport Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Jon Peterson. Technical Summary The MPEG-4 standard specifies compression of audio-visual data into for example an audio or video elementary stream. In the MPEG-4 standard, these streams take the form of audio-visual objects that may be arranged into an audio-visual scene by means of a scene description. Each MPEG-4 elementary stream consists of a sequence of Access Units; examples of an Access Unit (AU) are an audio frame and a video picture. This specification defines a general and configurable payload structure to transport non-multiplexed MPEG-4 elementary streams, in particular MPEG-4 audio (including speech) streams, MPEG-4 video streams and also MPEG-4 systems streams, such as BIFS (BInary Format for Scenes), OCI (Object Content Information), OD (Object Descriptor) and IPMP (Intellectual Property Management and Protection) streams. The RTP payload defined in this document is simple to implement and reasonably efficient. It allows for optional interleaving of Access Units (such as audio frames) to increase error resiliency in packet loss. This payload format is largely compatible with the video part of RFC 3016, the RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams, and extends that format to effectively support other classes of media and also MPEG-4 Systems streams. The specification registers the MIME sub-types audio/mpeg4-generic, video/mpeg4-generic and application/mpeg4-generic. MPEG-4 Systems supports stream types including commands that are executed on the terminal like OD commands, BIFS commands, etc. and programmatic content like MPEG-J (Java(TM) Byte Code) and CMAScript. The Security Considerations discuss risks associated with these capabilities and ways to mitigate these risks. Working Group Summary This was a strenuous effort by the AVT Working group. This payload format has been under development since the 39th IETF meeting in Munich, August 1997. It is the result of collaboration between AVT, the MPEG committee and the Internet Streaming Media Alliance. When the consensus designs were achieved, there was a thorough Last Call review and strong support for advancement. Protocol Quality The specification was reviewed for the IESG by Allison Mankin.
