The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Adobe's Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol' (draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-10.txt) as Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Martin Stiemerling. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp/ Technical Summary The Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol is an endpoint-to-endpoint communication protocol designed to securely transport parallel flows of real-time video, audio, and data messages, as well as bulk data, over IP networks. RTMFP has features making it effective for peer-to-peer (P2P) as well as client- server communications, even when Network Address Translators (NATs) are used. Encryption, Congestion Control, selective acknowledgements, separation of bulk and real time flows, NAT traversal, reliable, partial reliable and unreliable transport modes, as well as in-order and received-order delivery are all core components of this protocol. Working Group Summary The protocol was presented in TSVWG a few times, and the document reviewed by a number of individuals. As a private protocol, no technical changes were performed on the protocol itself, but the authors disclosed more details in response to the WG discussions (e.g. specifics around the congestion control mechanism). Document Quality There is one existing implementation, widely deployed as part of a multiple software packages from one vendor. The document was written with the goal to spur more deployments and implementations. Personnel Document Shepherd - Richard Scheffenegger <rs@netapp.com> Responsible Area Director - Martin Stiemerling <martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu> RFC Editor Note Please replace the standard boilerplate in the RFC-to-be: This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). By this boiler plate: This document is an informational publication by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents technology developed outside the processes of the IETF and the IETF community has determined that it is useful to publish it as an RFC. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). However, the technology in this document does not represent the consensus of the IETF.
