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Jingle Video via RTP This document defines methods for negotiating Jingle video sessions that use the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for media exchange. &LEGALNOTICE; 0180 Experimental Standards Track Standards Council XMPP Core XEP-0166 TO BE ASSIGNED &stpeter; Milton Chen Milton.Chen@vseelab.com 0.8 2007-05-23 psa

Corrected examples to use video codecs; added clockrate attribute.

0.7 2007-05-23 psa

More completely specified how to include SDP parameters and codec-specific parameters (same approach as in XEP-0167); added and corrected Theora examples.

0.6 2007-04-17 psa

Specified Jingle conformance, including the need to use a lossy transport and the process of sending and receiving video content.

0.5 2007-03-23 psa

Added negotiation flow and SDP mapping; renamed to mention RTP as the associated transport; corrected negotiation flow to be consistent with SIP/SDP (each party specifies a list of the payload types it can receive); added profile attribute to content element in order to specify RTP profile in use.

0.4 2006-12-21 psa

Modified spec to use provisional namespace before advancement to Draft (per XEP-0053).

0.3 2006-08-23 psa

Modified namespace to track XEP-0166.

0.2 2006-07-12 psa

Updated to use content type instead of media type.

0.1 2006-03-23 psa/mc

Initial version.

0.0.1 2006-03-20 psa/mc

First draft.

&xep0166; can be used to initiate and negotiate a wide range of peer-to-peer sessions. One session type of interest is video exchange. This document specifies a format for describing Jingle video sessions, where the media exchange occurs using the Real-time Transport Protocol (see &rfc3550;). Such sessions require the use of a lossy transport method such as &xep0177; or the "ice-udp" method specified in &xep0176;.

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

  1. Enable negotiation of parameters necessary for video exchange.
  2. Map these parameters to Session Description Protocol (SDP; see &rfc4566;) to enable interoperability.
  3. Define informational messages related to video chat.

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

  1. The content negotiation process is defined in the Negotiating a Jingle Video Session section of this document.

  2. The semantics of the &DESCRIPTION; element are defined in the Content Description 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 video session MUST use a lossy transport method such as &xep0177; or the "ice-udp" method specified in &xep0176;.

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

    • Outbound video 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.

A Jingle video session is described by one or more encodings contained within a wrapper &DESCRIPTION; element. In the language of RFC 4566 these encodings are payload-types; therefore, each <payload-type/> child element specifies an encoding that can be used for the video stream. Such encodings are often used in the context of the Real-time Transfer Protocol (RTP; see RFC 3550) but may be used in other contexts as well. 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 &PAYLOADTYPE; element's 'id' attribute is REQUIRED and its 'name' attribute is RECOMMENDED. The encodings SHOULD be provided in order of preference.

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

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

Attribute Description Datatype/Units Inclusion
channels The number of channels (e.g., 2 for stereoscopic video) positiveInteger (defaults to 1) OPTIONAL
clockrate The sampling frequency in Hertz positiveInteger RECOMMENDED
height The vertical extent of the displayed video, in pixels positiveInteger RECOMMENDED
id A unique identifier for the payload type positiveInteger REQUIRED
layer The relationship of a layer to the "bottom" of the stack, where 0 = bottom (the first layer) nonNegativeInteger OPTIONAL
name A name for the payload type string RECOMMENDED for static payload types, REQUIRED for dynamic payload types
transparent Whether or not a layer is transparent boolean OPTIONAL
width The horizontal extent of the displayed video, in pixels positiveInteger RECOMMENDED
x The horizontal starting point of a tile, in pixels from the origin point positiveInteger OPTIONAL
y The vertical starting point of a tile, in pixels from the origin point positiveInteger OPTIONAL

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

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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 receiver, the &DESCRIPTION; element includes all of the payload types that the initiator can receive for Jingle video (each one encapsulated in a separate &PAYLOADTYPE; element):

action='session-initiate' initiator='romeo@montague.net/orchard' sid='v1d30k1ll3dth3r4d10st4r'> ]]>

Upon receiving the session-initiate stanza, the receiver determines whether it can provisionally accept the session and proceed with the negotiation. The general Jingle error cases are specified in XEP-0166. In addition, the receiver must determine if it supports any of the payload types advertised by the initiator; if it does not, it MUST reject the session by sending a <unsupported-codecs/> error:

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If there is no error, the receiver provisionally accepts the session:

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The receiver 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 receiver sends MAY include any payload types (not a subset of the payload types sent by the initiator) but SHOULD retain the ID numbers and order specified by the initiator.

action='content-accept' initiator='romeo@montague.net/orchard' sid='v1d30k1ll3dth3r4d10st4r'> ]]>

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

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

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And the initiator acknowledges session acceptance:

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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:

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In the context of Jingle video sessions, the <media> is "video", the <port> is the preferred port for such communications (which may be determined dynamically), the <transport> is whatever transport method is negotiated via the Jingle negotiation (e.g., "RTP/AVT"), and the <fmt list> is the payload-type ID.

For example, consider the following static payload-type:

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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 VC-1 payload such as that described in &rfc4425;:

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

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If an entity supports Jingle video exchanges via RTP, it MUST advertise that fact by returning a feature of "http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0180.html#ns" in response to &xep0030; information requests.

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Informational messages may be sent by either party within the context of Jingle to communicate the status of a Jingle video session, device, or principal. The informational message MUST be an IQ-set containing a &JINGLE; element of type "session-info", where the informational message is a payload element qualified by the 'http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0180.html#ns-info' namespace. No payload elements have yet been defined, but may be specified in a future version of this document.

Support for the Theora codec is RECOMMENDED.

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;. &sdpdtls; defines such methods for the Session Description Protocol; the relevant RTP profile (e.g., "UDP/TLS/RTP/AVP" 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;.

Until this specification advances to a status of Draft, its associated namespaces shall be "http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0180.html#ns" and "http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0180.html#ns-info"; upon advancement of this specification, the ®ISTRAR; shall issue permanent namespaces in accordance with the process defined in Section 4 of &xep0053;.

The XMPP Registrar shall include "video-rtp" in its registry of Jingle content description formats. The registry submission is as follows:

video-rtp Jingle sessions that support video exchange via the Real-time Transport Protocol lossy XEP-0180 ]]>
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