A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Audio/Video Transport Extensions Working Group of the IETF. Title : Multicast Acquisition Report Block Type for RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Reports (XRs) Author(s) : Ali Begen Eric Friedrich Filename : draft-ietf-avtext-multicast-acq-rtcp-xr-05.txt Pages : 22 Date : 2011-05-26 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 diagnostics 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 Multicast Acquisition (MA) Report Block, within the framework of RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Reports (XR) (RFC 3611). This document also defines the necessary signaling of the new MA report block type in the Session Description Protocol (SDP). A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avtext-multicast-acq-rtcp-xr-05.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avtext-multicast-acq-rtcp-xr-05.txt _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt