&xep0166; can be used to initiate and negotiate a wide range of peer-to-peer sessions. One session type of interest is audio chat. This document specifies an application format for negotiating Jingle audio sessions, where the media is exchanged over the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP; see &rfc3550;).

The Jingle application format defined herein is designed to meet the following requirements:

1. Enable negotiation of parameters necessary for audio chat over Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP).
2. Map these parameters to Session Description Protocol (SDP; see &rfc4566;) to enable interoperability.
3. Define informational messages related to audio chat (e.g., ringing, on hold, on mute).

In accordance with Section 8 of XEP-0166, this document specifies the following information related to the Jingle Audio via RTP application type:

1. The application format negotiation process is defined in the Negotiating a Jingle Audio Session section of this document.

2. The semantics of the &DESCRIPTION; element are defined in the Application Format section of this document.

3. A mapping of Jingle semantics to the Session Description Protocol is provided in the Mapping to Session Description Protocol section of this document.

4. A Jingle audio session SHOULD use a lossy transport method such as &xep0177; or the "ice-udp" method specified in &xep0176;, but MAY use a reliable transport such as "ice-tcp" if a low-bandwidth codec is employed.

5. Content is to be sent and received as follows:

   • For lossy transports, outbound audio content shall be encoded into RTP packets and each packet shall be sent individually over the transport. Each inbound packet received over the transport is an RTP packet.

   • For reliable transports, outbound audio content shall be encoded into RTP packets and each packet data shall be sent in succession over the transport. Incoming data received over the transport shall be processed as a stream of RTP packets, where each RTP packet boundary marks the location of the next packet.

A Jingle audio session is described by a content type that contains one application format and one transport method. The application format consists of one or more encodings contained within a wrapper <description/> element qualified by the 'http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0167.html#ns' namespace &NSNOTE;. In the language of RFC 4566 each encoding is a payload-type; therefore, each <payload-type/> element specifies an encoding that can be used for the audio stream, as illustrated in the following example.

The &DESCRIPTION; element is intended to be a child of a &CONTENT; element as specified in XEP-0166.

The &CONTENT; element SHOULD possess a 'profile' attribute that specifies the exact protocol in use as would be encapsulated in SDP (e.g., "RTP/AVP" or "UDP/TLS/RTP/SAVP").

The encodings SHOULD be provided in order of preference by placing the most-preferred &PAYLOADTYPE; element as the first child of the &DESCRIPTION; element (etc.).

The allowable attributes of the &PAYLOADTYPE; element are as follows:

In Jingle Audio, the encodings are used in the context of RTP. The most common encodings for the Audio/Video Profile (AVP) of RTP are listed in &rfc3551; (these "static" types are reserved from payload ID 0 through payload ID 95), although other encodings are allowed (these "dynamic" types use payload IDs 96 to 127) in accordance with the dynamic assignment rules described in Section 3 of RFC 3551. The payload IDs are represented in the 'id' attribute.

Each <payload-type/> element MAY contain one or more child elements that specify particular parameters related to the payload. For example, as described in &rtpspeex;, the "cng", "mode", and "vbr" parameters may be specified in relation to usage of the Speex See <http://www.speex.org/>. codec. Where such parameters are encoded via the "fmtp" SDP attribute, they shall be represented in Jingle via the following format:

Note: The parameter names are effectively guaranteed to be unique, since &IANA; maintains a registry of SDP parameters (see <http://www.iana.org/assignments/sdp-parameters>).

When the initiator sends a session-initiate stanza to the responder, the &DESCRIPTION; element includes all of the payload types that the initiator can receive for Jingle audio (each one encapsulated in a separate &PAYLOADTYPE; element):

Upon receiving the session-initiate stanza, the responder determines whether it can proceed with the negotiation. The general Jingle error cases are specified in XEP-0166 and illustrated in the Scenarios section of this document.

If there is no error, the responder acknowledges the session initiation request.

The responder then should send a list of the payload types that it can receive via a Jingle "content-accept" (or "session-accept") action. The list that the responder sends MAY include any payload types (not a subset of the payload types sent by the initiator) but SHOULD retain the ID numbers specified by the initiator. The order of the &PAYLOADTYPE; elements indicates the responder's preferences, with the most-preferred types first.

The initiator acknowledges the 'content-accept' with an empty IQ result:

After successful transport negotiation (not shown here), the responder then accepts the session:

And the initiator acknowledges session acceptance:

Note: Because a "session-accept" action implicitly indicates acceptance of the application format (i.e., "content-accept"), it is not necessary to send a separate "content-accept" action. This flow is shown for completeness only.

The SDP media type for Jingle Audio via RTP is "audio" (see Section 8.2.1 of RFC 4566).

If the payload type is static (payload-type IDs 0 through 95 inclusive), it MUST be mapped to a media field defined in RFC 4566. The generic format for the media field is as follows:

In the context of Jingle audio sessions, the <media> is "audio", the <port> is the preferred port for such communications (which may be determined dynamically), the <transport> is whatever profile is negotiated via the 'profile' attribute of the &CONTENT; element in the Jingle negotiation (e.g., "RTP/AVP"), and the <fmt list> is the payload-type ID.

For example, consider the following static payload-type:

That Jingle-formatted information would be mapped to SDP as follows:

If the payload type is dynamic (payload-type IDs 96 through 127 inclusive), it SHOULD be mapped to an SDP media field plus an SDP attribute field named "rtpmap".

For example, consider a payload of 16-bit linear-encoded stereo audio sampled at 16KHz associated with dynamic payload-type 96:

That Jingle-formatted information would be mapped to SDP as follows:

As noted, if additional parameters are to be specified, they shall be represented as attributes of the <parameter/> child of the &PAYLOADTYPE; element, as in the following example.

That Jingle-formatted information would be mapped to SDP as follows:

If an entity supports Jingle audio exchanges via RTP, it MUST advertise that fact by returning a feature of "http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0167.html#ns" &NSNOTE; in response to &xep0030; information requests.

Naturally, support MAY also be determined via the dynamic, presence-based profile of Service Discovery defined in &xep0115;.

The following sections show a number of Jingle audio scenarios, in relative order of complexity.

In order to secure the data stream, implementations SHOULD use encryption methods appropriate to the transport method and media being exchanged; for example, in the case of UDP, that would include Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) as specified in &rfc4347;. The work-in-progress draft-fishl-mmusic-sdp-dtls defines such methods for the Session Description Protocol; the relevant RTP profile (e.g., "UDP/TLS/RTP/SAVP" for transporting the RTP stream over DTLS with UDP) shall be specified as the value of the &CONTENT; element's 'profile' attribute.

This document requires no interaction with &IANA;.