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  <front>
    <title abbrev="Third Party Loss Report">RTCP Extension for Feedback
    Suppression Indication</title>

    <author fullname="Qin Wu" initials="Q." surname="Wu">
      <organization>Huawei</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District</street>

          <city>Nanjing</city>

          <region>Jiangsu</region>

          <code>210012</code>

          <country>China</country>
        </postal>

        <email>sunseawq@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Frank Xia" initials="F." surname="Xia">
      <organization>Huawei</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>1700 Alma Dr. Suite 500</street>

          <city>Plano</city>

          <region>TX 75075</region>

          <country>USA</country>
        </postal>

        <phone>+1 972-509-5599</phone>

        <email>xiayangsong@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Roni Even" initials="R." surname="Even">
      <organization>Huawei</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>14 David Hamelech</street>

          <region>Tel Aviv 64953</region>

          <country>Israel</country>
        </postal>

        <email>even.roni@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date month="April" year="2011" />

    <workgroup>Network Working Group</workgroup>

    <abstract>
      <t>In a large RTP session using the RTCP feedback mechanism defined in
      RFC 4585, a media source or middlebox may experience transient overload
      if some event causes a large number of receivers to send feedback at
      once. This feedback implosion can be mitigated if the device suffering
      from overload can send a third party loss report message to the
      receivers to inhibit further feedback. This memo defines RTCP extensions
      for third party loss report, to suppress NACK and FIR feedback requests.
      It also defines associated SDP signaling.</t>
    </abstract>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <t>RTCP feedback messages <xref target="RFC4585"></xref> allow the
      receivers in an RTP session to report events and ask for action from the
      media source (or a delegated feedback target defined in SSM <xref
      target="RFC5760"></xref>). There are cases where multiple receivers may
      initiate the same, or an equivalent message towards the same media
      source. When the receiver count is large, this behavior may cause
      transient overload of the media source, the network or both. This is
      known as a "feedback storm" or a "NACK storm". One common cause of such
      a feedback storm is receivers utilizing RTP retransmission <xref
      target="RFC4588"></xref> as a packet loss recovery technique based,
      sending feedback using RTCP NACK messages <xref target="RFC4585"></xref>
      without proper dithering of the retransmission requests.</t>

      <t>Another use case involves video Fast Update requests. A storm of
      these feedback messages can occur in conversational multimedia scenarios
      like Topo-Video-switch-MCU <xref target="RFC5117"></xref>. In this
      scenario, packet loss may happen on an upstream link of an intermediate
      network element such as a Multipoint Control Unit(MCU). Poorly designed
      receivers that blindly issue fast update requests (i.e., Full Intra
      Request (FIR) described in <xref target="RFC5104"></xref>), can cause an
      implosion of FIR requests from receivers to the same media source.</t>

      <t>RTCP feedback storms may cause short term overload, and in extreme
      cases to pose a possible risk of increasing network congestion on the
      control channel (e.g. RTCP feedback), the data channel, or both. It is
      therefore desirable to provide a way of suppressing unneeded
      feedback.</t>

      <t>One approach to this, suggested in <xref target="DVB-IPTV"></xref>,
      involves sending a NACK message to the other clients (or receiver) in
      the same group as the sender of NACK. However sending multicast NACK to
      the group can not prevent large amount of unicast NACK addressed to the
      same media source or middlebox, for example when the NACK is used as a
      retransmission request <xref target="RFC4588"></xref>. Also NACK is
      defined as a receiver report sent from a receiver observing a packet
      loss, therefore it only inform others that sender of NACK detected loss
      while the case the sender of the feedback has received reports that the
      indicated packets were lost is not covered. This document specifies a
      new message for this function. It further is more precise in the
      intended uses and less likely to be confusing to receivers. It tells
      receivers explicitly that feedback for a particular packet or frame loss
      is not needed for a period of time and can provide an early indication
      before the receiver reacts to the loss and invokes its packet loss
      repair machinery.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Terminology">
      <t>The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
      "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
      document are to be interpreted as described in <xref
      target="RFC2119"></xref>.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Protocol Overview">
      <t>This document extends the RTCP feedback messages defined in the
      Audio-Visual Profile with Feedback (AVPF) and define the Third Party
      Loss Report message. The Third Party Loss Report message informs the
      receiver in the downstream path of the middlebox that the sender of the
      Third Party Loss Report has received reports that the indicated packets
      were lost and asks a receiver to not send feedback messages for
      particular packets (indicated by their RTP sequence numbers) independent
      of whether the receiver detected the packet loss or detected a need for
      a decoder refresh point.</t>

      <t>In order to observe packet loss before the receivers perceive it, one
      or more intermediate nodes may be placed between the media source and
      the receivers. These intermediates are variously referred to as
      Distribution servers, MCUs, RTP translator, or RTP mixers, depending on
      the precise use case. These intermediaries monitor for packet loss
      upstream of themselves by checking RTP sequence numbers, just as
      receivers do. Upon observing (or suspecting) an upstream loss, the
      intermediary may send Loss Party Loss Report message towards the
      receivers as defined in this specification.</t>

      <t>These intermediate nodes need to take into account such factors as
      the tolerable application delay, packet loss recovery techniques, the
      network dynamics, and the media type. When the packet loss is detected
      upstream of the intermediary and additional latency is tolerable,
      loss-repair methods such as Forward Error Correction and retransmission
      may be used to recover the missing packets. Therefore the intermediate
      node can be reasonably certain that it will help the situation by
      sending a Third Party Loss Report message to all the relevant receivers,
      thereby indicating to the receivers that they should not transmit
      feedback messages for a period of time.</t>

      <t>Alternatively, the media source may directly monitor the amount of
      feedback requests it receives, and send Third Party Loss Report messages
      to the receivers.</t>

      <t>When a receiver gets such a Third Party Loss Report message, it
      should refrain from sending a feedback request (e.g., NACK or FIR) for
      the missing packets reported in the message for a period of time. A
      receiver may still have sent a Feedback message according to the AVPF
      scheduling algorithm of <xref target="RFC4585"></xref>before receiving a
      Third Party Loss Report message, but further feedback messages for those
      sequence numbers will be suppressed by this technique for a period of
      time. Nodes that do not understand the Third Party Loss Report message
      will ignore it, and might therefore still send feedback according to the
      AVPF scheduling algorithm of <xref target="RFC4585"></xref>. The media
      source or intermediate nodes cannot assume that the use of a Third Party
      Loss Report message actually reduces the amount of feedback it
      receives.</t>

      <t>RTCP Third Party Loss Report follows the similar format of message
      type as RTCP NACK. But unlike RTCP NACK, the third party loss report is
      defined as an indication that the sender of the feedback has received
      reports that the indicated packets were lost and conveys the packet
      receipt/loss events at the sequence number level from the middlebox to
      the receivers in the downstream path of middlebox while NACK <xref
      target="RFC4585"></xref>just indicates that the sender of the NACK
      observed that these packets were lost. The Third Party Loss Report
      message can also be generated by RTP middlebox that has not seen the
      actual packet loss and sent to the corresponding receivers.
      Intermediaries downstream of an intermediary detecting loss obviously
      SHOULD NOT initiate their own additional Third Party Loss Report
      messages for the same packet sequence numbers. They may either simply
      forward the Third Party Loss Report message received from upstream, or
      replace it with a Third Party Loss Report message that reflects the loss
      pattern they have themselves seen. The Third Party Loss Report does not
      have the retransmission request [rfc4588] semantics.</t>

      <t>Since Third Party Loss Report interacts strongly with repair timing,
      it has to work together with feedback to not adversely impact the repair
      of lost source packets. One example is the middle box gets the
      retransmitted packet by sending a NACK upstream and sent it downstream.
      This retransmitted packet was lost on the downstream link. In order to
      deal with this, the downstream receiver can start a timeout in which it
      expected to get a retransmission packet. When this timeout expires and
      there is no retransmitted packet or a new third party loss report
      message, it can take its normal behavior as if there is no current
      retransmission suppression. In some cases where the loss was detected
      and repair initiated much closer to the source, the delay for the
      receiver to recover from packet loss can be reduced through the
      combination of intermediary feedback to the source and Third Party Loss
      Report downstream. In all (properly operating) cases, the risk of
      increasing network congestion is decreased.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="sec4" title="RTCP Feedback Report Extension">
      <t>This document registers two new RTCP Feedback messages for Third
      Party Loss Report. Applications that are employing one or more
      loss-repair methods MAY use Third Party Loss Report together with their
      existing loss-repair methods either for every packet they expect to
      receive, or for an application-specific subset of the RTP packets in a
      session. In other words, receivers MAY ignore Third Party Loss Report
      messages, but SHOULD react to them unless they have good reason to still
      send feedback messages despite having been requested to suppress
      them.</t>

      <section title="Transport Layer Feedback:  Third-party Loss Report">
        <t>This Third Party Loss Report message is an extension to the RTCP
        Transport Layer Feedback Report and identified by RTCP packet type
        value PT=RTPFB and FMT=TBD.</t>

        <t>The FCI field MUST contain one or more entries of transport layer
        third party loss Early Indication (TLLEI). Each entry applies to a
        different media source, identified by its SSRC.</t>

        <t>The Feedback Control Information (FCI) for TLLEI uses the similar
        format of message Types defined in the section 4.3.1.1 of <xref
        target="RFC5104"></xref>. The format is shown in <xref
        target="fig2"></xref>.</t>

        <figure align="center" anchor="fig2"
                title="Message Format for the Third Party Loss Report">
          <artwork>
     0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |            PID                |             BLP               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
</artwork>
        </figure>

        <t><list style="hanging">
            <t hangText="Packet ID (PID): 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" />
            The PID field is used to specify a lost packet. The PID field
            refers to the RTP sequence number of the lost packet.<vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t
            hangText="bitmask of proceeding lost packets (BLP): 16 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" /> The BLP allows for reporting losses of any of
            the 16 RTP packets immediately following the RTP packet indicated
            by the PID. The BLP's definition is identical to that given in
            <xref target="RFC4585"></xref>.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>

      <section title="Payload Specific Feedback: Third-party Loss Report">
        <t>This message is an extension to the RTCP Payload Specific Feedback
        report and identified by RTCP packet type value PT=PSFB and
        FMT=TBD.</t>

        <t>The FCI field MUST contain a Payload Specific Third Party Loss
        Early Indication (PSLEI) entry. Each entry applies to a different
        media source, identified by its SSRC.</t>

        <t>The Feedback Control Information (FCI) for PSLEI uses the similar
        format of message Types defined in the section 4.3.1.1 of <xref
        target="RFC5104"></xref>. The format is shown in <xref
        target="fig3"></xref>.</t>

        <figure align="center" anchor="fig3"
                title="Message Format for the Third Party Loss Report">
          <artwork>
     0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                              SSRC                             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Seq nr.   |                   Reserved                    |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
</artwork>
        </figure>

        <t><list style="hanging">
            <t hangText="SSRC (32 bits): "><vspace blankLines="1" />The SSRC
            value of the media source that is requested to send a decoder
            refresh point.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Seq nr:8bits">Command sequence number. The sequence
            number space is unique for each pairing of the SSRC of command
            source and the SSRC of the command target. The sequence number
            SHALL be increased by 1 modulo 256 for each new request.<vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Reserved: 24 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" />All bits
            SHALL be set to 0 by the media source and SHALL be ignored on
            reception.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="SDP Signaling">
      <t>A new feedback value "tplr" needs to be defined for the Third Party
      Loss Report message to be used with Session Description Protocol (SDP)
      <xref target="RFC4566"></xref> using the Augmented Backus-Naur Form
      (ABNF) <xref target="RFC4585"></xref>.</t>

      <t>The "tplr" feedback value SHOULD be used with parameters that
      indicate the third party loss supported. In this document, we define two
      such parameter, namely: <vspace blankLines="1" /><list style="symbols">
          <t>"tllei" denotes support of transport layer third party loss early
          indication (fsei).<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

          <t>"pslei" denotes support of payload specific third party loss
          early indication.</t>
        </list><vspace blankLines="1" />In the ABNF for rtcp-fb-val defined in
      <xref target="RFC4585"></xref>, there is a placeholder called rtcp-fb-id
      to define new feedback types. "tplr" is defined as a new feedback type
      in this document, and the ABNF for the parameters for tplr is defined
      here (please refer to section 4.2 of <xref target="RFC4585"></xref> for
      complete ABNF syntax).</t>

      <figure align="center">
        <artwork>
      rtcp-fb-val        =/ "tplr" rtcp-fb-tplr-param
      rtcp-fb-tplr-param  = SP "tllei";transport layer third party loss early indication
                          / SP "pslei";payload specific third party loss early indication
                          / SP token [SP byte-string]
                                    ; for future commands/indications
   byte-string = <as defined in section 4.2 of [RFC4585] >
</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>Refer to Section 4.2 of <xref target="RFC4585"></xref> for a detailed
      description and the full syntax of the "rtcp-fb" attribute.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Example Use Cases">
      <t>The operation of feedback suppression is similar for all types of RTP
      sessions and topologies <xref target="RFC5117"></xref>, however the
      exact messages used and the scenarios in which suppression is employed
      differ for various use cases. The following sections outline the
      intended use cases of using Third Party Loss Report for feedback
      suppression and give an overview of the particular mechanisms.</t>

      <section title="Source Specific Multicast (SSM) use case">
        <t>In SSM RTP sessions as described in <xref target="RFC5760"></xref>,
        one or more Media Sources send RTP packets to a Distribution Source.
        The Distribution Source relays the RTP packets to the receivers using
        a source-specific multicast group.</t>

        <t>In order to avoid the forms of Feedback implosion described in
        section 1,the distribution source should be told that the indicated
        packets were lost. How the distribution source know the indicated
        packets were lost is beyond of scope of this document. When upstream
        link or downstream aggregate link packet loss occurs, the distribution
        source creates a Third Party Loss Report and sent it to all the RTP
        receivers, over the multicast channel. Another possibility is when
        there may be multiple distribution sources placed between the media
        source and the receivers, each distribution source may send its own
        Third Party Loss report to downstream receivers respectively. And also
        the upstream distribution source may inform downstream distribution
        sources in the path of the detected packet loss using Third Party Loss
        Report messages. In response, if the upstream Third Party Loss Report
        reports the different event, the downstream distribution sources
        forward Third Party Loss Report received from upstream to all the RTP
        receivers, over the multicast channel. If the same event is reported
        from upstream distribution source, the downstream distribution source
        may suppress creating and sending its own report to the relevant RTP
        receivers. This Third Party Loss Report message tells the receivers
        that the sender of the third party loss report has received reports
        that the indicated packets were lost. The distribution source then can
        (optionally) ask for the lost packets from the media source or itself
        on behalf of all the RTP receivers. The lost packets will either be
        forthcoming from distribution source, or it irretrievably lost such
        that there is nothing to be gained by the receiver sending a NACK to
        the media source.</t>

        <t>The distribution source must be able to communicate with all group
        members in order for either mechanism to be effective at suppressing
        feedback.</t>

        <t>As outlined in the <xref target="RFC5760"></xref>, there are two
        Unicast Feedback models that may be used for reporting, - the Simple
        Feedback model and the Distribution Source Feedback Summary Model. The
        RTCP Feedback extension for Third Party Loss Report specified in the
        <xref target="sec4"></xref> of this document will work in both
        Feedback models. Details of operation in each are specified below.</t>

        <section title="Simple Feedback Model">
          <t>In the simple Feedback Model, NACKs from the receiver observing
          the loss will be reflected to the other receivers, and there's no
          need for distribution source to create the third-party loss report.
          The distribution source that has not seen the actual packet loss
          should pass through any Third Party Loss Report message it receives
          from the upstream direction.</t>

          <t>This RTCP Third Party Loss Report message lets the receivers know
          that the sender of the Third party Loss Report has received reports
          that the indicated packets were lost and feedback for this packet
          loss is not needed and should not be sent to the media source(s). If
          the media source(s) are part of the SSM group for RTCP packet
          reflection, the Distribution Source must filter this packet out. If
          the media source(s) are not part of the SSM group for RTCP packets,
          the Distribution Source must not forward this RTCP Third Party Loss
          Report message to the media source(s).</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Distribution Source Feedback Summary Model">
          <t> In the distribution source feedback summary model, there may be
          multiple distribution sources who see the actual packet loss In this
          section, we focus on this generic case to discuss the distribution
          Source Feedback Summary Model. </t>

          <t>The distribution source A must listen on the RTP channel for
          data. When the distribution source A observes RTP packets from a
          media source are not consecutive by checking the sequence number of
          packets, the distribution source A generates the new RTCP Third
          Party Loss Report message described in the <xref
          target="sec4"></xref>, and then send it to receivers in the
          downstream path via the multicast channel. Note that the
          distribution source A must use its own SSRC value as packet sender
          SSRC for transmitting the new RTCP Third Party Loss Report
          message.</t>

          <t> The Distribution Source B must also listen for RTCP data sent to
          the RTCP port. Upon receiving the RTCP Third Party Loss Report from
          the Distribution Source A, the Distribution Source B needs to check
          whether it sees upstream third party loss report from distribution
          source A reporting the same event. If the upstream Third Party Loss
          Report reports the different event, the distribution source B passes
          through any Third Party Loss Report message it receives from the
          upstream direction. If the same event is reported from distribution
          source A, the distribution source B may suppress creating and
          sending its own report with the same event to the downstream RTP
          receiver. Also the Distribution Source B may create and send its own
          summary Third Party Loss Report described in the Section 4 to the
          group over the multicast RTCP channel. . In order to reduce the
          processing load at the distribution source, the distribution source
          B may provide preliminary summarization Third Party Loss Report.
          </t>

          <t>In some case, the distribution source B may receive RTCP NACK
          messages from the receivers behind the Distribution Source before
          the distribution source detects the packet loss which may cause
          potential Feedback implosion. In such case, the distribution source
          B may filter them out if it already detected the same loss.</t>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="Unicast based Rapid Acquisition of Multicast Stream (RAMS) use case">
        <t>The typical RAMS architecture <xref
        target="I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp"></xref>may have
        several Burst/Retransmission Sources(BRS) behind the multicast source
        (MS) These BRSes will receive the multicast SSM stream from the media
        source. If one of the BRSes detects packet loss (i.e., First loss in
        <xref target="fig4"></xref>) on its upstream link between the MS and
        itself, but the others BRSes have not, as the packet loss took place
        on the SSM tree branch that does not impact the other BRSes. In such
        case, the BRSes not being impacted cannot detect packet loss at their
        upstream link, therefore these BRSes will not create new Third Party
        Loss Report message and send it to receivers in their downstream path.
        If the BRS impacted by packet loss has seen the actual packet loss,
        the BRS MAY choose to create new Third Party Loss Report message and
        send it to the receivers in the downstream link. Note that BRS must
        use its own SSRC as packet sender SSRC for transmitting the feedback
        suppress message.</t>

        <t>The BRS may also send a NACK upstream to request the retransmitted
        packet. Upon receiving the retransmitted packet, the BRS sent it
        downstream. Note that this retransmitted packet may get lost (i.e.,
        second loss in the <xref target="fig4"></xref>) on the downstream
        link. In order to deal with this issue, the downstream receiver can
        start a timeout clock in which it expected to get a retransmission
        packet. When this timeout expires and there is no retransmitted packet
        or a new Third Party Loss Report message, it can take its normal
        behavior as if there is no current retransmission suppression in
        place. <figure align="center" anchor="fig4" title="RAMS Use Case">
            <artwork>
                         First    +------------+            +----------+
                         loss     |Burst and   |Second Loss |          |
                      +-----X-----| Retrans.   |----X------>|          |
                      | Upstream  |Source1(BRS)| Downstream |          |
        Link close    | link 1    +------------+ link 1     |          |
        to multicast  |                                     |          |
        source        |                                     |          |
             |        |                                     |          |
             |        |           +------------+            |   RTP    |
+---------+  |  +-----++          |Burst and   |            | Receiver |
|Multicast|  V| |      +----------| Retrans.   |----------->|          |
| Source  +-----|Router|Upstream  |Source2(BRS)| Downstream |  RTP_Rx  |
+---------+     |      |link 2    +------------+ link 2     |          |
                +-----++                                    |          |
                      |                                     |          |
                      |                                     |          |
                      |                                     |          |
                      |           +------------+            |          |
                      |           |Burst and   |            |          |
                      +-----------+ Retrans.   |----------->|          |
                        Upstream  |Source k(BRS| Downstream |          |
                        link k    +------------+ link k     +----------+
</artwork>
          </figure></t>
      </section>

      <section title="RTP transport translator use case">
        <t>A Transport Translator (Topo-Trn-Translator), as defined in <xref
        target="RFC5117"></xref> is typically forwarding the RTP and RTCP
        traffic between RTP clients, for example converting between multicast
        and unicast for domains that do not support multicast. The translator
        can identify packet loss from the upstream and send the Third Party
        Loss Report message to the unicast receivers. Note that the translator
        must be a participant in the session and can then use it's own SSRC as
        packet sender SSRC for transmitting the Third Party Loss Report
        message</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) use case">
        <t>In point to multipoint topologies using video switching MCU
        (Topo-Video-switch-MCU) <xref target="RFC5117"></xref>, the MCU
        typically forwards a single media stream to each participant, selected
        from the available input streams. The selection of the input stream is
        often based on voice activity in the audio-visual conference, but
        other conference management mechanisms (like presentation mode or
        explicit floor control) exist as well.</t>

        <t>In this case the MCU may detect packet loss from the sender or may
        decide to switch to a new source. In both cases the receiver may lose
        synchronization with the video stream and may send a FIR request. If
        the MCU itself can detect the mis-synchronization of the video, the
        MCU can send the FIR suppression message to the receivers and send a
        FIR request to the video source. As suggested in RFC 5117, this
        topology is better implemented as an Topo-mixer, in which case the
        mixer's SSRC is used as packet sender SSRC for transmitting Third
        Party Loss Report message.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Security Considerations">
      <t>The defined messages have certain properties that have security
      implications. These must be addressed and taken into account by users of
      this protocol.</t>

      <t>Spoofed or maliciously created feedback messages of the type defined
      in this specification can have the following implications:</t>

      <t>Sending Third Party Loss Report with wrong sequence number of lost
      packet that makes missing RTP packets can not be compensated.</t>

      <t>To prevent these attacks, there is a need to apply authentication and
      integrity protection of the feedback messages. This can be accomplished
      against threats external to the current RTP session using the RTP
      profile that combines Secure RTP <xref target="RFC3711"></xref> and AVPF
      into SAVPF <xref target="RFC5124"></xref>.</t>

      <t>Note that middleboxes that are not visible at the RTP layer that wish
      to send Third Party Loss Reports on behalf of the media source can only
      do so if they spoof the SSRC of the media source. This is difficult in
      case SRTP is in use. If the middlebox is visible at the RTP layer, this
      is not an issue, provided the middlebox is part of the security context
      for the session.</t>

      <t>Also note that endpoints that receive a Third Party Loss Report would
      be well-advised to ignore it, unless it is authenticated via SRTCP or
      similar. Accepting un-authenticated Third Party Loss Report can lead to
      a denial of service attack, where the endpoint accepts poor quality
      media that could be repaired.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="IANA Consideration">
      <t>New feedback type and New parameters for RTCP Third Party Loss Report
      are subject to IANA registration. For general guidelines on IANA
      considerations for RTCP feedback, refer to <xref
      target="RFC4585"></xref>.</t>

      <t>This document assigns one new feedback type value x in the RTCP
      feedback report registry to "Third Party Loss Report" with the following
      registrations format:</t>

      <figure align="center">
        <artwork>
    Name:            TPLR
    Long Name:       Third Party Loss Report
    Value:           TBD
    Reference:       This document.
</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>This document also assigns the parameter value y in the RTCP TPLR
      feedback report Registry to " Transport Layer Third Party Loss Early
      Indication ", with the following registrations format:</t>

      <figure>
        <artwork align="center">
     Name:           TLLEI
     Long name:      Transport Layer Third Party Loss Early Indication
     Value:          TBD
     Reference:      this document.
</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>This document also assigns the parameter value z in the RTCP TPLR
      feedback report Registry to "Payload Specific Third Party Loss Early
      Indication ", with the following registrations format:</t>

      <figure align="center">
        <artwork>
     Name:           PSLEI
     Long name:      Payload Specific Third Party Loss Early Indication
     Value:          TBD
     Reference:      this document.
</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>The contact information for the registrations is: <figure>
          <artwork> 
  Qin Wu
  sunseawq@huawei.com
  101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District
  Nanjing, Jiangsu  210012, China
</artwork>
        </figure></t>
    </section>

    <section title="Acknowledgement">
      <t>The authors would like to thank David R Oran, Ali C. Begen, Colin
      Perkins,Tom VAN CAENEGEM, Ingemar Johansson S, Bill Ver Steeg, Jonathan
      Lennox, WeeSan Lee for their valuable comments and suggestions on this
      document.</t>
    </section>
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title="Normative References">
      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.5760"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.2119"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.4585"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.3550"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.5117"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.4588"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.4566"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.5234"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.5104"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.3711"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.5124"?>
    </references>

    <references title="Informative References">
      <reference anchor="RFC5740">
        <front>
          <title>NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Transport
          Protocol</title>

          <author fullname="Brian Adamson" initials="B." surname="Adamson">
            <organization>Naval Research Laboratory</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Carsten Bormann" initials="C." surname="Bormann">
            <organization>Universitaet Bremen TZI</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Mark Handley " initials="M." surname="Handley">
            <organization>University College London</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Joe Macker" initials="J." surname="Macker">
            <organization>Naval Research Laboratory</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="November" year="2009" />
        </front>
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="DVB-IPTV">
        <front>
          <title>Digital Video Broadcasting(DVB); Transport of MPEG-2 TS Based
          DVB Services over IP Based Networks</title>

          <author>
            <organization>ETSI Standard</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="August" year="2009" />
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="ETSI TS 102 034, V1.4.1" value="" />
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="I-D.ietf-avt-rapid-acquisition-for-rtp">
        <front>
          <title>Unicast- Based Rapid Acquisition of Multicast RTP
          Sessions</title>

          <author fullname="Bill Steeg" initials="B." surname="Steeg">
            <organization>Cisco</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Ali Begen" initials="A." surname="Begen">
            <organization>Cisco</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Tom Caenegem" initials="T." surname="Caenegem">
            <organization>Alcatel-Lucent</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Zeev Vax" initials="Z." surname="Vax">
            <organization>Microsoft</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="November" year="2010" />
        </front>
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="I-D.hunt-avt-monarch-01">
        <front>
          <title>Monitoring Architectures for RTP</title>

          <author fullname="Geoff Hunt" initials="G." surname="Hunt">
            <organization>BT</organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Philip Arden" initials="P." surname="Arden">
            <organization>BT</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="August" year="2008" />
        </front>
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="I-D.ietf-pmol-metrics-framework-02">
        <front>
          <title>Framework for Performance Metric Development</title>

          <author fullname="Alan Clark " initials="A." surname="Clark">
            <organization>Telchemy Incorporated</organization>
          </author>

          <date />
        </front>
      </reference>
    </references>

    <section title="Appendix A. Change Log">
      <t>Note to the RFC-Editor: please remove this section prior to
      publication as an RFC.</t>

      <section title="draft-ietf-avtcore-feedback-suppression-rtp-01">
        <t>The following are the major changes compared to previous version:
        <list style="symbols">
            <t>Remove the merge report from SSM use case and addional text to
            address report merging issue.</t>

            <t>Revise section 3 and section 6 to address FEC packet dealing
            issue and Leave how to repair packet loss beyond the scope.</t>

            <t>Modify the SSM use case and RAMS use case to focus on uses.</t>

            <t>Other Editorial changes.</t>
          </list></t>
      </section>
    </section>
  </back>
</rfc>

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