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Jingle RTP Sessions This specification defines a Jingle application type for negotiating one or more sessions that use the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) to exchange media such as voice or video. The application type includes a straightforward mapping to Session Description Protocol (SDP) for interworking with SIP media endpoints. &LEGALNOTICE; 0167 Proposed Standards Track Standards Council XMPP Core XEP-0166 RFC 3550 N/A jingle &scottlu; &stpeter; &seanegan; &robmcqueen; &diana; 0.25 2008-12-19 psa
  • Refactored encryption syntax.
  • Because the modified encryption syntax is not backwards-compatible, incremented protocol version from 0 to 1 and changed namespace from urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:zero to urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:1.
  • Added optional bandwidth element.
  • Added example of description-info action for modifying application parameters.
  • Corrected the schemas.
0.24 2008-09-25 psa/dc
  • Defined handling of early media, including mappings to RFC 3959 and RFC 3960 using the newly-defined 'disposition' attribute for the <content/> element in XEP-0166.
  • Clarified handling of SRTP negotiation.
  • More fully specified invalid-crypto error condition.
  • Changed DTMF text to prefer native RTP methods and not recommend sending of DTMF in the XMPP signalling channel, per XEP-0181.
  • Modified namespaces to incorporate namespace versioning.
  • Cleaned up XML schemas.
0.23 2008-07-31 ram/psa

Removed profile attribute; modified secure session establishment to align with SRTP usage.

0.22 2008-06-09 psa

Added name attribute to active element to mirror usage for mute element; clarified meaning of session in the context of this specification; recommended that all sessions established via the same Jingle negotiation should be treated as synchronized.

0.21 2008-06-09 psa

Added name attribute to mute element for more precise handling of informational messages.

0.20 2008-06-04 psa

In accordance with list consensus, generalized to cover all RTP media, not just audio; corrected text regarding payload types sent by responder in order to match SDP approach.

0.19 2008-05-28 psa

Specified default value for profile attribute; clarified relationship to SDP offer-answer model.

0.18 2008-05-28 psa

Removed content-replace from ICE-UDP examples per XEP-0176.

0.17 2008-02-29 psa

Corrected use of content-replace action per XEP-0166.

0.16 2008-02-28 psa

Moved profile attribute from XEP-0166 to this specification.

0.15 2008-01-11 psa

Removed content-accept after content-remove per XEP-0166.

0.14 2008-01-03 psa

Modified examples to track changes to XEP-0176.

0.13 2007-12-06 psa

To track changes to XEP-0166, modified busy scenario and removed unsupported-codecs error.

0.12 2007-11-27 psa

Further editorial review.

0.11 2007-11-15 psa

Editorial review and consistency check; moved voice chat scenarios from XEP-0166 to this specification.

0.10 2007-11-13 psa

Removed info message for busy since it is now a Jingle-specific error condition defined in XEP-0166; defined info message for active.

0.9 2007-04-17 psa

Specified Jingle conformance, including the preference for datagram transports over streaming transports and the process of sending and receiving audio content over each transport type.

0.8 2007-03-23 psa/ram

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.

0.7 2006-12-21 psa

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

0.6 2006-10-31 psa/se

Specified how to include SDP parameters and codec-specific parameters; clarified negotiation process; added Speex examples; removed queued info message.

0.5 2006-08-23 psa

Modified namespace to track XEP-0166.

0.4 2006-07-12 se/psa

Specified when to play received audio (early media); specified that DTMF must use in-band signalling (XEP-0181).

0.3 2006-03-20 psa

Defined info messages for hold and mute.

0.2 2006-02-13 psa

Defined info message for busy; added info message examples; recommended use of Speex; updated schema and XMPP Registrar considerations.

0.1 2005-12-15 psa

Initial version.

0.0.3 2005-12-05 psa

Described service discovery usage; defined initial informational messages.

0.0.2 2005-10-27 psa

Added SDP mapping, security considerations, IANA considerations, XMPP Registrar considerations, and XML schema.

0.0.1 2005-10-21 psa/sl

First draft.

&xep0166; can be used to initiate and negotiate a wide range of peer-to-peer sessions. One session type of interest is media such as voice or video. This document specifies an application format for negotiating Jingle media 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 media sessions using the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP).
  2. Map these parameters to Session Description Protocol (SDP; see &rfc4566;) to enable interoperability.
  3. Define informational messages related to typical RTP uses such as audio chat and video chat (e.g., ringing, on hold, on mute).

In accordance with Section 10 of XEP-0166, this document specifies the following information related to the Jingle RTP application type:

  1. The application format negotiation process is defined in the Negotiating a Jingle RTP 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 RTP session SHOULD use a datagram transport method such as &xep0177; or the "ice-udp" method specified in &xep0176;, but MAY use a streaming transport such as "ice-tcp" if a low-bandwidth codec is employed and the media negotiated is not unduly heavy (e.g., it might be possible to use a streaming transport for audio, but not for video).

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

    • For datagram transports, outbound 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 streaming transports, outbound 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 RTP session is described by a content type that contains one application format and one transport method. Each <content/> element defines a single RTP session. A Jingle negotiation MAY result in the establishment of multiple RTP sessions (e.g., one for audio and one for video). An application SHOULD consider all of the RTP sessions that are established via the same Jingle negotiation to be synchronized for purposes of streaming, playback, recording, etc.

The application format consists of one or more encodings contained within a wrapper <description/> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:1' namespace &VNOTE;. 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 RTP stream, as illustrated in the following example.

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

The &DESCRIPTION; element MUST possess a 'media' attribute that specifies the media type, such as "audio" or "video", where the media type SHOULD be as registered at &ianamedia;.

After inclusion of one or more &PAYLOADTYPE; child elements, the &DESCRIPTION; element MAY also contain a <bandwidth/> element that specifies the allowable or preferred bandwidth for use by this application type. The 'type' attribute of the <bandwidth/> element SHOULD be a value for the SDP "bwtype" parameter as listed in the &ianasdp;. For RTP sessions, often the <bandwidth/> element will specify the "session bandwidth" as described in Section 6.2 of RFC 3550, measured in kilobits per second as described in Section 5.2 of RFC 4566.

The encodings SHOULD be provided in order of preference by placing the most-preferred payload type as the first &PAYLOADTYPE; child of the &DESCRIPTION; element and the least-preferred payload type as the last child.

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

Attribute Description Datatype Inclusion
channels The number of channels; if omitted, it MUST be assumed to contain one channel unsignedByte (defaults to 1) RECOMMENDED
clockrate The sampling frequency in Hertz unsignedInt RECOMMENDED
id The payload identifier unsignedByte REQUIRED
maxptime Maximum packet time as specified in RFC 4566 unsignedInt OPTIONAL
name The appropriate subtype of the MIME type string RECOMMENDED for static payload types, REQUIRED for dynamic payload types
ptime Packet time as specified in RFC 4566 unsignedInt OPTIONAL

In Jingle RTP, 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 can 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:

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The order of parameter elements MUST be ignored.

Parameter names MUST be treated as case-sensitive. However, parameter names are effectively guaranteed to be unique, since &IANA; maintains a registry of SDP parameters (see <http://www.iana.org/assignments/sdp-parameters>).

In general, the process for negotiating a Jingle RTP session is as follows:

| | ack | |<----------------------------| | [transport negotiation] | |<--------------------------->| | session-accept | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | AUDIO (RTP) | |<===========================>| | | ]]>

When the initiator sends a session-initiate stanza to the responder, the &DESCRIPTION; element includes all of the payload types that the initiator can send and/or receive for Jingle RTP, each one encapsulated in a separate &PAYLOADTYPE; element (the rules specified in &rfc3264; SHOULD be followed regarding inclusion of payload types).

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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 immediate error, the responder acknowledges the session initiation request.

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After successful transport negotiation (not shown here), the responder accepts the session by sending a session-accept action to the initiator. The session-accept SHOULD include a subset of the payload types sent by the initiator, i.e., a list of the offered payload types that the responder can send and/or receive. The list that the responder sends SHOULD retain the ID numbers specified by the initiator. The order of the &PAYLOADTYPE; elements indicates the responder's preferences, with the most-preferred type first.

In the following example, we imagine that the responder supports Speex at clockrate of 8000 but not 16000, G729, and PCMA but not PMCU. Therefore the responder returns only two payload types (since PMCA was not offered).

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And the initiator acknowledges session acceptance:

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The initiator and responder would then exchange media using any of the codecs that meet the following criteria:

The SDP media type for Jingle RTP is "audio" (see Section 8.2.1 of RFC 4566) for audio media, "video" (see Section 8.2.1 of RFC 4566) for video media, etc. The media type is reflected in the Jingle 'media' attribute.

The Jingle <bandwidth/> element SHALL be mapped to an SDP b= line; in particular, the value of the 'type' attribute shall be mapped to the SDP <bwtype> parameter and the XML character data of the Jingle <bandwidth/> element shall be mapped to the SDP <bandwidth> parameter.

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 audio sessions, the <media> parameter is "audio" or "video" or some other media type as specified by the 'media' attribute, the <port> parameter is the preferred port for such communications (which might be determined dynamically), and the <fmt list> parameter is the payload-type ID.

For example, consider the following static payload-type:

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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:

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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.

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

The formatting is similar for video parameters, as shown in the following example.

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

The term "early media" refers to media that is exchanged before a responder has definitively accepted a session request generated by an initiator. Early media is typically used to send ringing tones and announcements, using either audio streams or Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) events.

In Jingle, the exchange of early media is established through use of the "content-add" action. In order to match the usage specified in &rfc3959; and &rfc3960;, when adding a content definition for early media the value of the &CONTENT; element's 'disposition' attribute MUST be "early-session" for mapping to a SIP Content-Disposition header value of "early-session". This enables endpoints or intermediate gateways to apply the application server model described in RFC 3960.

An entity that generates a content-add for early media SHOULD specify the same codecs for both session media and early media (however, it is possible that the entity that generates the early media does not generate the session media, for example in the case of an intermediate gateway or application server; in this case the entity MUST use one of the codecs advertised by the initiator).

Upon receiving a content-add action specifying the use of early media, the initiator's client SHOULD acknowledge the content-add, complete any required transport negotiation, and then send a content-accept (or content-reject) to the sender. When the responder subsequently sends a session-accept action, the acceptance MUST NOT be construed to include the content definition whose disposition is "early-session".

In handling early media and deciding whether to generate local ringing or to play early media received from the responder or an intermediate gateway, the initiator's client SHOULD proceed as follows:

  1. If no ringing notification is received via a session-info event containing a <ringing/> condition, do not generate local ringing.
  2. If a ringing notification is received and no early media is received, generate local ringing.
  3. If a ringing notification is received but early media is received, play the early media and do not generate local media.
  4. Once the responder has accepted the session and the session data (as opposed to early session data) has begun to flow, stop local ringing or stop playing early media.

For examples of early media, see the Jingle Audio via RTP with Early Media section of this document.

&rfc3711; defines the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol, and &rfc4568; defines the SDP "crypto" attribute for signalling and negotiating the use of SRTP in the context of offer-answer protocols such as SIP. To enable the use of SRTP and gatewaying to non-XMPP technologies that make use of the "crypto" SDP attribute, we define a corresponding <crypto/> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:1' namespace.

If the initiator wishes to use SRTP, the session-initiate stanza MUST include an <encryption/> element, which MUST contain at least one <crypto/> element and MAY include multiple instances of the <crypto/> element. The <encryption/> element MUST be a child of the <description/> element. If the initiator requires the session to be encrypted, the <encryption/> element MUST include a 'required' attribute whose logical value is TRUE and whose lexical value is "true" or "1" &BOOLEANNOTE;, where this attribute defaults to a logical value of FALSE (i.e., a lexical value of "false" or "0").

The <crypto/> element is defined as empty (i.e., not containing any child elements); the XML attributes of the <crypto/> element are as follows:

An example follows.

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The mapping of that data to SDP is as follows.

When the responder receives a session-initiate action containing an <encryption/> element, the responder MUST either (1) accept the offer by denoting one of the <crypto/> elements as acceptable (it does this by mirroring that <crypto/> element in its session acceptance) or (2) reject the offer by sending a session-terminate action with a Jingle reason of <security-error/> and an RTP-specific condition of <invalid-crypto/>.

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If the responder requires encryption but the initiator did not include an <encryption/> element in its offer, the responder MUST reject the offer by sending a session-terminate action with a Jingle reason of <security-error/> and an RTP-specific condition of <crypto-required/>.

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If the initiator requires encryption but the responder does not include an <encryption/> element in its session acceptance, the initiator MUST terminate the session with a Jingle reason of <security-error/> and an RTP-specific condition of <crypto-required/>.

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Informational messages can be sent by either party within the context of Jingle to communicate the status of a Jingle RTP 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 'urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:info:1' namespace; the following payload elements are defined: A <trying/> element (equivalent to the SIP 100 Trying response code) is not necessary, since each session-level action is acknowledged via XMPP IQ semantics.

Element Meaning
<active/> The principal or device is again actively participating in the session after having been on hold or on mute. The <active/> element MAY possess a 'name' attribute whose value specifies a particular session that is again active (e.g., activating the video aspect but not the audio aspect of a voice+video chat). If no 'name' attribute is included, the recipient MUST assume that all sessions are active.
<hold/> The principal is temporarily pausing the chat (i.e., putting the other party on hold).
<mute/> The principal is temporarily stopping media output but continues to accept media input. The <mute/> element MAY possess a 'name' attribute whose value specifies a particular session to be muted (e.g., muting the audio aspect but not the video aspect of a voice+video chat). If no 'name' attribute is included, the recipient MUST assume that all sessions are to be muted.
<ringing/> The device is ringing but the principal has not yet interacted with it to answer (this maps to the SIP 180 response code).

Note: Because the informational message is sent in an IQ-set, the receiving party MUST return either an IQ-result or an IQ-error (normally only an IQ-result to acknowledge receipt; no error flows are defined or envisioned at this time).

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Before or during an RTP session, either party can share suggested application parameters with the other party by sending a Jingle stanza with an action of "description-info". The stanza shall contain only a &DESCRIPTION; element, which specifies suggested parameters for a given application type (e.g., a change to the height and width for display of a video stream). An example follows.

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The description-info stanza SHOULD include only the suggested or modified information, not the complete set of application parameters (if those parameters have not changed). Furthermore, the data provided is purely advisory; the session SHOULD NOT fail if the receving party cannot adjust its parameters accordingly.

If an entity supports Jingle RTP session, it MUST advertise that fact by returning a feature of "urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:1" &VNOTE; in response to &xep0030; information requests.

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In order for an application to determine whether an entity supports this protocol, where possible it SHOULD use the dynamic, presence-based profile of service discovery defined in &xep0115;. However, if an application has not received entity capabilities information from an entity, it SHOULD use explicit service discovery instead.

The following sections show a number of Jingle RTP scenarios, roughly in order of increasing complexity.

In this scenario, Romeo initiates a voice chat with Juliet but she is otherwise engaged.

The session flow is as follows:

| | ack | |<----------------------------| | session-info (ringing) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | terminate | | (reason = busy) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | | ]]>

The protocol flow is as follows.

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Now the responder immediately terminates the session.

Note: It might be wondered why the responder does not accept the session and then terminate. That order would be acceptable, too, but here we assume that the responder's client has immediate information about the responder's free/busy status (e.g., because the responder is on the phone) and therefore returns an automated busy signal without requiring user interaction.

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In this scenario, Romeo initiates a voice chat with Juliet using a transport method of ICE-UDP. The parties also exchange informational messages.

The session flow is as follows:

| | ack | |<----------------------------| | session-info (ringing) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | transport-info (X times) | | (with acks) | |<--------------------------->| | STUN connectivity checks | |<===========================>| | session-accept | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | AUDIO (RTP) | |<===========================>| | session-terminate | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | | ]]>

The protocol flow is as follows.

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Because the parties have chosen the Jingle ICE-UDP Transport Method, the initiator and responder exchange an open-ended number of possible candidate transports, perform connectivity checks, and agree upon a candidate transport as explained in XEP-0176. Once ICE negotiation is completed, the responder sends a session-accept action to the initiator.

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If the payload types and transport candidate can be successfully used by both parties, the initiator acknowledges the session-accept action.

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The parties now begin to exchange media. In this case they would use RTP to exchange audio using the Speex codec at a clockrate of 8000 since that is the highest-priority codec for the responder (as determined by the XML order of the &PAYLOADTYPE; children).

The parties can continue the session as long as desired.

Eventually, one of the parties terminates the session.

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The other party then acknowledges termination of the session:

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In this scenario, Romeo initiates a secure voice chat with Juliet using a transport method of ICE-UDP. The parties also exchange informational messages.

The session flow is as follows:

| | ack | |<----------------------------| | session-info (ringing) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | transport-info (X times) | | (with acks) | |<--------------------------->| | STUN connectivity checks | |<===========================>| | session-accept | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | AUDIO (RTP) | |<===========================>| | session-terminate | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | | ]]>

The protocol flow is as follows.

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To signal that the initiator wishes to use SRTP, the initiator's client includes keying material via the <encryption/> element (with one set of keying material per <crypto/> element). Here the initiator also signals that encryption is mandatory via the 'required' attribute.

The responder immediately acknowledges the session initiation request.

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If the keying material is acceptable, the responder's continues with the negotiation. If the keying material is not acceptable, the responder's client terminates the session as described under Negotiation of SRTP.

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Because the parties have chosen the Jingle ICE-UDP Transport Method, the initiator and responder exchange an open-ended number of possible candidate transports, perform connectivity checks, and agree upon a candidate transport as explained in XEP-0176. Once ICE negotiation is completed, the responder sends a session-accept action to the initiator.

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If the payload types and transport candidate can be successfully used by both parties, then the initiator acknowledges the session-accept action.

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The parties now begin to exchange media. In this case they would use SRTP to exchange audio using the Speex codec at a clockrate of 8000 since that is the highest-priority codec for the responder (as determined by the XML order of the &PAYLOADTYPE; children).

The parties can continue the session as long as desired.

Eventually, one of the parties terminates the session.

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The other party then acknowledges termination of the session:

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In this scenario, Romeo initiates a voice chat with Juliet using a transport method of ICE-UDP. There is a gateway between Romeo and Juliet, and the gateway functions as an application server by returning early media to Romeo (perhaps some late medieval hold music or an old-fashioned IVR interaction). To simplify the flow, we have left out any ringing notifications generated by Juliet.

The session flow is as follows.

| session-initiate | | ack |------------------------>| |<------------------------| | | content-add | ack | | (early media) x<------------------------| |<------------------------| | | ack | | |------------------------>| | | [TRANSPORT SETUP] | | |<----------------------->| | | content-accept | | |------------------------>| | | ack | | |<------------------------| | | EARLY MEDIA (RTP) | | |<=======================>| | | | session-accept | | |<------------------------| | session-accept | | |<------------------------| | | ack | | |------------------------>| ack | | |------------------------>| | AUDIO (RTP) | |<=================================================>| | | session-terminate | | |<------------------------| | session-terminate | | |<------------------------| | | ack | | |------------------------>| ack | | |------------------------>| | | | ]]>

The protocol flow is as follows, showing only the stanzas sent between Romeo and the gateway (acting on Juliet's behalf).

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Now the gateway sends a content-add action to Romeo while waiting for Juliet to pay attention to her telephony interface.

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Romeo then acknowledges the content-add action.

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Because the gateway (on behalf of the responder) specified a transport method of Raw UDP for the early session data, the initiator then would send a Raw UDP candidate to the gateway (see XEP-0177 for details).

Eventually the initiator would send a content-accept to the gateway.

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The gateway then acknowledges the acceptance on behalf of Juliet.

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Now the gateway sends early media to Romeo.

Eventually, the responder sends a session-accept.

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The endpoints now begin to exchange session media; as a result, Romeo and the gateway terminate the exchange of early media.

The endpoints can continue the session as long as desired.

Eventually, one of the endpoints terminates the session.

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The other party then acknowledges termination of the session:

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In this scenario, Romeo initiates a combined audio and video chat with Juliet using a transport method of ICE-UDP. Juliet at first refuses the video portion, then later offers to add video, which Romeo accepts. The parties also exchange various informational messages

The session flow is as follows:

| | ack | |<----------------------------| | session-info (ringing) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | content-remove | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | transport-info (X times) | | (with acks) | |<--------------------------->| | STUN connectivity checks | |<===========================>| | session-accept | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | AUDIO (RTP) | |<===========================>| | session-info (hold) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | session-info (active) | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | content-add | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | content-accept | |---------------------------->| | ack | |<----------------------------| | AUDIO + VIDEO (RTP) | |<===========================>| | session-terminate | |<----------------------------| | ack | |---------------------------->| | | ]]>

The protocol flow is as follows.

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However, Juliet doesn't want to do video because she is having a bad hair day, so she sends a "content-remove" request to Romeo.

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Romeo then acknowledges the content-remove request:

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Because the parties have chosen the Jingle ICE-UDP Transport Method, the initiator and responder exchange an open-ended number of possible candidate transports, perform connectivity checks, and agree upon a candidate transport as explained in XEP-0176. Once ICE negotiation is completed, the responder sends a session-accept action to the initiator.

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As above, if the payload types and transport candidate can be successfully used by both parties, then the initiator acknowledges the session-accept action.

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The parties now begin to exchange media. In this case they would use RTP to exchange audio using the Speex codec at a clockrate of 8000 since that is the highest-priority codec for the responder (as determined by the XML order of the &PAYLOADTYPE; children).

The parties chat for a while. Eventually Juliet wants to get her hair in order so she puts Romeo on hold.

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Juliet returns so she informs Romeo that she is actively engaged in the call again.

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The parties now continue the audio chat.

Finally Juliet decides that she is presentable for a video chat so she sends a content-add request to Romeo.

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The entity receiving the content-add request then acknowledges the request and, if it is acceptable, returns a content-accept action:

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The other party then acknowledges the acceptance.

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The media session proceeds. Now they would exchange both audio and video, where the audio is exchanged via the Speex codec at a clockrate of 8000 and the video is exchanged using the Theora codec with a height of 600 pixels, a width of 800 pixels, and so on.

The parties can continue the session as long as desired.

Other events might occur throughout the life of the session. For example, one of the parties might want to tweak the video parameters using a description-info action.

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Eventually, one of the parties terminates the session.

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For the sake of interoperability with a wide variety of free and open-source voice systems as well as deployment of patent-free technologies, support for the Speex codec is RECOMMENDED.

For the sake of interoperability with the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and most VoIP providers, support for the Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) codec defined in &ITU; recommendation G.711 is RECOMMENDED, including both the μ-law ("U-law") version deployed in North America and in Japan, and the A-law version deployed in the rest of the world.

XMPP applications that use Jingle RTP sessions for voice chat MUST support and prefer native RTP methods of communicating DTMF information, in particular the "audio/telephone-event" and "audio/tone" media types. It is NOT RECOMMENDED to use the protocol described in &xep0181; for communicating DTMF information with RTP-aware endpoints.

When the Jingle RTP content type is accepted via a session-accept action, both initiator and responder SHOULD start listening for audio as defined by the negotiated transport method and audio application format. For interoperability with telephony systems, after the responder acknowledges the session initiation request, the responder SHOULD send a "ringing" message and both parties SHOULD play any audio received. For more detailed suggestions in the context of early media, see under Early Media.

Support for the Theora codec is RECOMMENDED.

In order to secure the data stream, implementations SHOULD use encryption methods appropriate to the RTP data transport; the use of SRTP is recommended.

This document requires no interaction with &IANA;.

This specification defines the following XML namespaces:

  • urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:1
  • urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:errors:1
  • urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:info:1

Upon advancement of this specification from a status of Experimental to a status of Draft, the ®ISTRAR; shall add the foregoing namespaces to the registry located at &NAMESPACES;, as described in Section 4 of &xep0053;.

&NSVER;

For each RTP media type that an entity supports, it MUST advertise support for the "urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:[media]" feature, where the string "[media]" is replaced by the appropriate media type such as "audio" or "video".

The initial registry submission is as follows.

urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:audio Signals support for audio sessions via RTP XEP-0167 urn:xmpp:jingle:apps:rtp:video Signals support for video sessions via RTP XEP-0167 ]]>

The XMPP Registrar shall include "rtp" in its registry of Jingle application formats. The registry submission is as follows:

rtp Jingle sessions that support media exchange via the Real-time Transport Protocol. datagram XEP-0167 ]]>
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Thanks to Milton Chen, Paul Chitescu, Olivier Crête, Tim Julien, Steffen Larsen, Jeff Muller, Mike Ruprecht, Justin Uberti, and Paul Witty for their feedback.