The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Content Splicing for RTP Sessions' (draft-ietf-avtext-splicing-for-rtp-12.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Audio/Video Transport Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gonzalo Camarillo and Robert Sparks. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-avtext-splicing-for-rtp/ Technical Summary This memo outlines how to perform RTP splicing. Splicing is a process that replaces the content of the main multimedia stream with other multimedia content, and delivers the substitutive multimedia content to receiver for a period of time. This memo provides some RTP splicing use cases, then we enumerate a set of requirements and analyze whether an existing RTP level middlebox can meet these requirements, at last we provide concrete guidelines for how the chosen middlebox works to handle RTP splicing. Working Group Summary This document has firm WG consensus behind it and has been advequate reviewed. Document Quality The sheperd is unaware of any specific implementation but expect this functionality to be implemented in the field. How well they follow the proposed method is unknown. Personnel The document Shepherd is Magnus Westerlund The responsible AD is Gonzalo Camarillo
