The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Taxonomy of Semantics and Mechanisms for Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Sources' (draft-ietf-avtext-rtp-grouping-taxonomy-08.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Audio/Video Transport Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Barry Leiba, Ben Campbell and Alissa Cooper. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-avtext-rtp-grouping-taxonomy/ Technical Summary: The terminology about, and associations among, Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) sources can be complex and somewhat opaque. This document describes a number of existing and proposed relationships among RTP sources, and attempts to define common terminology for discussing protocol entities and their relationships. Working Group Summary: A first draft of the document was produced by a team of people led by Jonathan Lennox as draft-lennox-raiarea-rtp-grouping-taxonomy-00 in February 2013. There were three further iterations as an author draft until the document was adopted as a working group document by the AVTEXT working group in November 2013, with Bo Burman taking over the lead editorship. The document has been through six iterations as a working group document, with working group last call occurring in November 2014. While the authors of the draft have been limited, a significant team of experts has been working on the draft including Jonathan Lennox, Kevin Gross, Bo Burman, Magnus Westerlund, Suhas Nandakumar, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Harald Alvestrand. There was no working group controversy worth noting. Document Quality: The document itself contains terminology only, and no requirements, so is not directly implementable in its own right. The document has been developed in parallel with a number of specifications in the AVTCORE, PAYLOAD, MMUSIC, RTCWEB, and CLUE working groups, and has been reviewed by editors of documents in those groups. Apart from the regular GenArt review, no further external reviews are identified as needed. Personnel: Who is the Document Shepherd? Who is the Responsible Area Director? Keith Drage is the document shepherd. Ben Campbell is the responsible area director.
