A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Extensible Bandwidth Attribute for SDP Author(s) : Tomas Frankkila Magnus Westerlund Bo Burman Filename : draft-westerlund-mmusic-sdp-bw-attribute-01.txt Pages : 38 Date : 2012-04-24 Knowledge of what bandwidths the end-points intend to use is important both for the other end-point and for resource allocation in various types of networks. This is especially important for wireless access networks which typically have quite limited resources. The bandwidth attribute in Session Description Protocol (SDP), 'b=AS', is today quite widely used to define the bandwidth that the end-points intends to use, in various types of sessions. This document will show that the existing bandwidth attribute, such as 'b=AS', although widely used in todays scenarios, has limitations that make it hard or even impossible for the end-points to express their intentions accurately when it comes to bandwidth usage. To solve the identified problems, this document defines a new extensible SDP bandwidth attribute 'a=bw' which enables more detailed control over the bandwidth declarations, request, and allocations. With the new bandwidth attribute it is possible to define different scopes in the session setup and then negotiate the bandwidth individually for each scope. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-westerlund-mmusic-sdp-bw-attribute-01.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-westerlund-mmusic-sdp-bw-attribute-01.txt The IETF datatracker page for this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-westerlund-mmusic-sdp-bw-attribute/ _______________________________________________ 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