Re: [MMUSIC] I-D Action: draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-20.txt

FYI - this new version merely corrects the acknowledgements section.  No real changes were made.

-hadriel

On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:23 PM, <internet-drafts@ietf.org>
 <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:

> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title           : An Extension to the Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for Media Loopback
> 	Author(s)       : Hadriel Kaplan
>                          Kaynam Hedayat
>                          Nagarjuna Venna
>                          Paul E. Jones
>                          Nathan Stratton
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-20.txt
> 	Pages           : 33
> 	Date            : 2012-07-30
> 
> Abstract:
>    The wide deployment of Voice over IP (VoIP), Text and Video over IP
>    services has introduced new challenges in managing and maintaining
>    real-time voice/text/video quality, reliability, and overall
>    performance.  In particular, media delivery is an area that needs
>    attention.  One method of meeting these challenges is monitoring
>    the media delivery performance by looping media back to the
>    transmitter.  This is typically referred to as "active monitoring"
>    of services.   Media loopback is especially popular in ensuring the
>    quality of transport to the edge of a given VoIP, Real-time Text or
>    Video over IP service.  Today in networks that deliver real-time
>    media, short of running 'ping' and 'traceroute' to the edge,
>    administrators are left without the necessary tools to actively
>    monitor, manage, and diagnose quality issues with their service.
>    The extension defined herein adds new SDP media types and
>    attributes, which enable establishment of media sessions where the
>    media is looped back to the transmitter. Such media sessions will
>    serve as monitoring and troubleshooting tools by providing the
>    means for measurement of more advanced VoIP, Real-time Text and
>    Video over IP performance metrics.
> 
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-20
> 
> A diff from previous version is available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-20
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