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                Connection-Oriented Media Transport in SDP 
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Status of this Memo 
 
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   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved. 
 
Abstract 
 
   This document describes how to express media transport over 
   connection-oriented protocols using the Session Description Protocol 
   (SDP).  It defines two new protocol identifiers: TCP and TLS.  It 
   also defines the syntax and semantics for an SDP "direction" 
   attribute that describes the connection setup procedure. 
 














 
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1  Introduction 
 
   The Session Description Protocol [SDP] provides a general-purpose 
   format for describing multimedia sessions in announcements or 
   invitations. SDP uses an entirely textual data format (the US-ASCII 
   subset of [UTF-8]) to maximize portability among transports.  SDP 
   does not define a protocol, but only the syntax to describe a 
   multimedia session with sufficient information to discover and 
   participate in that session.  Session descriptions may be sent using 
   arbitrary existing application protocols for transport (e.g., SAP, 
   SIP, RTSP, email, HTTP, etc.). 
    
   [SDP] describes two protocol identifiers: RTP/AVP and UDP, both of 
   which are unreliable, connectionless protocols, an appropriate 
   choice for multimedia streams.  There are, however, applications for 
   which the connection-oriented transports such as TCP are more 
   appropriate, but [SDP] provides no way to describe a session that 
   uses protocols other than RTP or UDP. 
    
   Connection-oriented protocols introduce a new factor when describing 
   a session: not only must it be possible to express that a protocol 
   will be based on this protocol, but it must also describe the 
   connection setup procedure.  This memo defines two new protocol 
   identifiers, TCP and TLS, along with the syntax and semantics of the 
   a=direction and a=reconnect attributes. 
    
2  Terminology 
    
   In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", 
   "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", 
   and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [7] 
   and indicate requirement levels for compliant implementations. 
    
3  Protocol Identifiers 
    
   The m= line in [SDP] is where an endpoint specifies the protocol 
   used for the media in the session.  See the "Media Announcements" 
   section of [SDP] for a discussion on protocol identifiers. 
    
3.1 TCP 
    
   The TCP protocol identifier is similar to the UDP protocol 
   identifier in that it only describes the transport protocol without 
   any connotation as to the upper-layer protocol.  An m= line that 
   specifies "TCP" MUST further qualify the protocol using a fmt 
   identifier (see [SDP] Appendix B). 
    
3.2 TLS 
    
   The TLS protocol identifier specifies that the session will use the 
   Transport Layer Security protocol [TLS] with an implied transport 
   protocol of TCP.  To describe a media session that uses TLS over 
   TCP, the protocol identifier "TLS" must be specified in the m= line.   
 
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   An m= line that specifies TLS MUST further qualify the protocol 
   using a fmt identifier. 
    
    
4  Direction Attribute 
    
   An important attribute of connection-oriented protocols is the setup 
   procedure.  One endpoint needs to initiate the connection and the 
   other endpoint needs to accept the connection.  The direction 
   attribute is used to describe these roles, and the syntax is as 
   follows: 
    
          a=direction:<role> 
    
   The <role> is one of the following: 
    
   passive:    The endpoint will accept an incoming connection. 
    
   active:     The endpoint will initiate an outgoing connection. 
    
   both:       The endpoint will both accept an incoming connection  
               and will initiate an outgoing connection. 
 
4.1 Semantics of direction:passive 
    
   By specifying direction:passive, the endpoint indicates that the 
   port number specified in the m= line is available to accept a 
   connection from the other endpoint. 
 
4.2 Semantics of direction:active 
    
   By specifying direction:active, the endpoint indicates that it will 
   initiate a connection to the port number on the m= line of the other 
   endpoint.  The port number on its own m= line is irrelevant, and the 
   opposite endpoint MUST NOT attempt to initiate a connection to the 
   port number specified there.  Nevertheless, since the m= line must 
   contain a valid port number, the endpoint specifying 
   direction:active SHOULD specify a port number of 9 (the discard 
   port) on its m= line.  The endpoint MUST NOT specify a port number 
   of zero, as that carries other semantics in [SDP].  The following 
   SDP fragment shows an example of direction:active: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1 
        m=image 9 TCP t38 
        a=direction:active IN IP4 
    
    
4.3 Semantics of direction:both 
    
   By specifying direction:both, the endpoint indicates that it will 
   both accept a TCP connection on the port number of its own m= line, 
   and that it will also initiate a connection to the port number on 
   the m= line of the other endpoint.   
 
 
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   Since this attribute describes behavior that is similar to 
   connectionless media descriptions in [SDP], it is the default value 
   for the direction attribute and is therefore optional. 
    
   Endpoints may choose to specify direction:both for one or more of 
   the following reasons: 
    
      1) The endpoint has no preference as to whether it accepts or 
         initiates the connection, and therefore is offering the remote 
         endpoint a choice of connection setup procedures. 

      2) The endpoints intend to use a single connection to transport 
         the media, but it is not known whether firewall issues will 
         prevent either endpoint from initiating or accepting the 
         connection.  Therefore both endpoints will attempt to initiate 
         a connection in hopes that at least one will succeed. 

   If one endpoint specifies either direction:active or 
   direction:passive and the other specifies direction:both, both 
   endpoints MUST behave as if the latter had specified the inverse 
   direction of the former.  For example, specifying direction:both 
   when the other endpoint specifies direction:active SHALL cause both 
   endpoints to behave as if the former had specified 
   direction:passive.  Conversely, specifying direction:both when the 
   other endpoint specifies direction:passive SHALL cause both 
   endpoints to behave as if the former had specified direction:active. 
    
   If both endpoints specify direction:both then each endpoint MUST 
   initiate a connection to the port number specified on the m= line of 
   the opposite endpoint.  There is one exception to this requirement: 
   if an endpoint receives the incoming connection from the opposite 
   endpoint prior to initiating its own outbound connection, then that 
   endpoint MAY use that connection rather than attempt to make an 
   outbound connection to the opposite endpoint. 
    
   If only one connection succeeds, then that connection will be used 
   to carry the media.  Once it has transmitted data on this 
   connection, the initiating endpoint MUST NOT perform another 
   connection attempt to the accepting endpoint.  This allows the 
   accepting endpoint to release or recycle the listening port for 
   another session once it has received data from the initiating 
   endpoint. 
    
   If both connections succeed, the following rules SHALL apply: 
    
   a) Each endpoint MUST accept data from either connection. 

   b) Once an endpoint has transmitted data to one of the connections, 
     it MUST use that connection exclusively for transmission. 

   c) Once an endpoint has transmitted AND received data, if one of the 
     connections is determined to be idle, the endpoint SHOULD close 
     the idle connection. 

 
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4.4 Optimizing direction:both 
    
   As discussed in the previous section, there is the possibility that 
   two connections will be created when only one is needed.  While 
   rules in the previous section accommodate the closing of an idle 
   connection, they do not prevent a race condition where the endpoints 
   simultaneously start sending data on opposite connections thereby 
   causing two connections to be used where one would have sufficed.  
   While it is not possible to entirely eliminate this race condition, 
   it is in the endpoints' interest to minimize its occurrence.  
   Therefore, when a session is negotiated through interactive exchange 
   of SDP between endpoints (as in the case of SIP) AND the result of 
   the negotiation is that each endpoint specifies direction:both, it 
   is RECOMMENDED that the endpoints use the following guidelines: 
 
   a) There comes a point during the exchange of SDP where one endpoint 
     is prepared to send the final message that will complete the 
     negotiation and allow the session to begin.  For the purposes of 
     this discussion, the endpoint that will send this final message 
     will be called the Initiator, and the endpoint that will receive 
     this message will be called the Acceptor. 

   b) The Initiator, upon receiving sufficient information to initiate a 
     connection, MUST attempt to connect to the Acceptor as soon as 
     possible. 

   c) In order to lower the likelihood that the Acceptor will also 
     attempt to initiate a connection, the Initiator SHOULD incorporate 
     a short delay between initiating the connection and sending the 
     final SDP to the Acceptor. 

   d) The delay time chosen by the Initiator MUST NOT introduce an 
     unacceptable session setup delay should the connection to the 
     Acceptor not succeed. 

    
4.5 Bidirectional versus Unidirectional Media  
    
   In traditional SDP transport types the flow is unidirectional.  If 
   the intent is for media to flow in both directions, both endpoints 
   must specify SDP that describes where to deliver the media and what 
   media type(s) to use.  For example, if only Endpoint A presents SDP 
   then media can only flow towards Endpoint A, as Endpoint B has not 
   specified where and how to send media to it. 
    
   Because most connection-oriented media is inherently bi-directional, 
   endpoints may encounter a situation where only one side presented 
   SDP yet there is now a network path that can carry media in either 
   direction.  In keeping with traditional SDP semantics, an endpoint 
   MUST NOT send data to the other endpoint unless it has specified SDP 
   information describing the type of media it can accept.   
    
   It is, however, perfectly acceptable for an endpoint to transmit 
   data on the same connection it is using to receive data, so long as 
 
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   the other endpoint has advertised its willingness to accept data.  
   Likewise, it is perfectly acceptable for an endpoint to receive data 
   on the same connection it is using to transmit data to the 
   corresponding remote endpoint.  In other words, for a bi-directional 
   application-level session, a connection may be used to send data in 
   both directions (contingent to rules outlined in Section 2.3) as 
   long as one side of the connection is attached to either of the 
   advertised SDP transport addresses. 
    
4.6 Treating UDP and RTP/AVP like Connection Oriented Media  
    
   Endpoints MAY specify a direction attribute for UDP or RTP/AVP 
   media.  This indicates that the endpoint would like to treat this 
   media as a type of connection-oriented media.  (The endpoint may do 
   this to facilitate NAT traversal for example.)  Note that for 
   backwards compatibility, an endpoint which can specify 
   direction:active MUST include valid addresses and ports in the SDP 
   as always.  If the peer's SDP does not include a direction 
   attribute, it knows that the peer does not support connection-
   oriented media, and media exchange will proceed normally, as if 
   connection-oriented media were not offered. 
    
   Endpoints that specify direction:passive MUST NOT send any media, 
   any packets whatsoever (including control packets such as RTCP), 
   from their passive ports until they receive a packet on these ports 
   and record the source address and port of the sender.  The passive 
   endpoint then assumes that the first packet received corresponds to 
   its active peer.  From this point onward, passive endpoints MUST 
   send UDP or RTP media from the same port as the port indicated in 
   the m= line.  Passive endpoints MUST send RTCP media (if any) from 
   the port on which they expect to receive it (typically the RTP port 
   number plus 1).  
     
   Endpoints that specify direction:active MUST be prepared to receive 
   on the ports from which they send.  Once they learn the IP address 
   and port of their peer from the peer's SDP, they SHOULD immediately 
   send some kind of media (even if just comfort noise) to each of 
   these ports.  This is so the peer can learn their IP address and 
   port, in order to send media back without additional delay. 
   Effectively, the exchange of the first media packet completes a bi-
   directional handshake between the active and passive peer. 
    
5  Reconnect Attribute 
    
   The preceding description of the a=direction attribute has been in 
   the context of using SDP to initiate a session.  However, SDP may be 
   exchanged between endpoints at various stages of a session to 
   accomplish tasks such as terminating a session, redirecting media to 
   a new endpoint, renegotiating the media parameters for a session, 
   etc.  After the initial session has been established, it may be 
   ambiguous as to whether subsequent SDP exchange represents a 
   confirmation that the endpoint is to continue using the current 
   media connection unchanged, or is a request to make a new media 

 
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   connection.  The reconnect attribute is used to disambiguate these 
   two scenarios, and the syntax is as follows: 
    
          a=reconnect 
    
   SDP containing a=reconnect signals that the specified session does 
   NOT refer to an existing connection between the two endpoints.  If 
   the endpoints agree to continue the session, the endpoints MUST 
   close the existing connection for the currently negotiated session, 
   and MUST create a new connection according to the a=direction 
   attribute in the SDP.  If an endpoint receives SDP that contains 
   a=reconnect, the endpoint's response MUST also contain a=reconnect.  
   Endpoints MUST NOT include a=reconnect in SDP that negotiates the 
   start of a session. 
    
   See section 6, "Connection and Listener Lifetime Considerations" for 
   more information on scenarios that are relevant to the a=reconnect 
   attribute. 
    
    
6  Connection and Listener Lifetime Considerations 
    
6.1 Listener Lifetime 
    
   An endpoint that has specified direction:both or direction:passive 
   MUST be ready to accept a connection on the appropriate address and 
   port during the time slot(s) advertised for that session.  The 
   endpoint MUST keep the address and port available for incoming 
   connections until either: 
    
   a) The time window for the session has expired, or 

   b) The endpoint has received the expected number of incoming 
     connections on that address and port, or 

   c) Subsequent exchanges have superceded the SDP that originally 
     advertised the availability of the address and port. 

   Once the endpoint has determined that a listener is no longer needed 
   on a specific address and port, it SHOULD terminate the listener.  
   The endpoint is then free to re-use the address and port for 
   subsequent session advertisements. 
    
6.2 Connection Lifetime 
    
   An endpoint that intends to initiate the connection MUST initiate 
   the connection immediately after it has sufficient information to do 
   so, even if it does not intend to immediately begin sending media to 
   the remote endpoint.  This allows media to flow from the remote 
   endpoint. 
    
   An endpoint MUST NOT close the connection until the session has 
   expired, been explicitly terminated, or the media stream is 
   redirected to a different address or port. 
 
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   If the endpoint determines that the connection has been closed, it 
   MAY attempt to re-establish the connection.  The decision to do so 
   is application and/or context dependant.  If the endpoint opts to 
   re-establish the connection, it MUST NOT assume that the original 
   address and port advertised by the remote endpoint is still valid.  
   Instead, the endpoint MUST renegotiate the session parameters by 
   exchanging new SDP. 
    
6.3 Session Renegotiation and Connection Lifetime 
    
   There are scenarios where SDP is sent by an endpoint in order to 
   renegotiate an existing session.  These include muting/unmuting a 
   session, renegotiating the attributes of the media used by the 
   session, or extending the length of a session about to expire.  
   Connection-oriented media introduces some ambiguities into session 
   renegotiation as to when the direction attribute must be obeyed and 
   when it is ignored. 
    
   The scenario of extending the duration of an existing session is a 
   good example: in order to extend an existing session, endpoints will 
   typically resend the original SDP with updated time information.  In 
   connectionless media the result is no change to the existing media 
   streams.  The problem with connection oriented media is that the 
   original SDP will contain a direction attribute which can be 
   construed as a request to create a new connection, as opposed to a 
   request to maintain steady state.  To avoid this ambiguity, the 
   following rule SHALL apply to subsequent exchanges of SDP: 
    
          If the transport section (the c= and m= lines) 
          combined with the direction attribute of an SDP 
          message describes an existing connection between two 
          endpoints, AND the SDP does not contain a=reconnect, 
          then the endpoints MUST use that connection to carry 
          the media described in the remainder of the message.  
          The endpoints MUST NOT attempt to set up a new 
          connection, regardless of what is specified in the 
          direction attribute. 
    
   This disambiguates most session renegotiation scenarios, with the 
   exception of muting.  Muting a media stream is accomplished by 
   sending the original session SDP but with an "a=inactive" or 
   "a=sendonly/recvonly" attribute.  This is still valid for connection 
   oriented media, with the additional caveat that the endpoints MUST 
   NOT close the connection described by that SDP. 
    
7  Examples 
    
   What follows are a number of examples that show the most common 
   usage of the direction attribute combined with TCP-based media 
   descriptions.  For the purpose of brevity, the main portion of the 
   session description is omitted in the examples and is assumed to be 
   the following: 
    
 
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        v=0 
        o=me 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 10.1.1.2 
        s=Call me using TCP 
        t=3034423619 3042462419 
    
7.1 Example: simple passive/active 
    
   An endpoint at 10.1.1.2 signals the availability of a T.38 fax 
   session at port 54111: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.2 
        m=image 54111 TCP t38 
        a=direction:passive 
    
   An endpoint at 10.1.1.1 receiving this description responds with the 
   following: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1 
        m=image 9 TCP t38 
        a=direction:active 
    
   The endpoint at 10.1.1.1 then initiates the TCP connection to port 
   54111 at 10.1.1.2.   
    
7.2 Example: simple passive/active with reconnect 
    
   Continuing the preceding example, consider the scenario where the 
   TCP connection fails and the endpoints wish to reestablish the 
   connection for the session.  The endpoint at 10.1.1.2 signals this 
   intent with the following SDP: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.2 
        m=image 54111 TCP t38 
        a=direction:passive 
        a=reconnect 
    
   The a=reconnect attribute informs the endpoint at 10.1.1.1 that this 
   SDP represents the intent to establish a new connection for media 
   transport, rather than continuing with the original connection.  
   Because the endpoint at 10.1.1.1 may not yet be aware that the TCP 
   connection has failed, this eliminates any ambiguity.  If 10.1.1.1 
   agrees to continue the session using a new connection, it responds 
   with: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1 
        m=image 9 TCP t38 
        a=direction:active IN IP4 
        a=reconnect 
 
7.3 Example: agnostic both 
    
   An endpoint at 10.1.1.2 signals the availability of a T.38 fax 
   session at TCP port 54111, but is also willing to set up the media 
   stream by initiating the TCP connection: 
 
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        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.2 
        m=image 54111 TCP t38 
        a=direction:both 
    
   The endpoint at 10.1.1.1 has three choices: 
    
      1) It can respond with either of the two direction:active 
         descriptions listed in the previous example.  In this case the 
         endpoint at 10.1.1.1 must initiate a connection to port 54111 
         at 10.1.1.2. 

      2) It can respond with a description similar to the following: 

               c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1 
               m=image 54321 TCP t38 
               a=direction:passive 
                
         In this case the endpoint at 10.1.1.2 must initiate a  
         connection to port 54321 at 10.1.1.1. 
         
      3) It can respond with a description that specifies 
         direction:both, which is covered in the next example. 

7.4 Example: redundant both 
    
   An endpoint at 10.1.1.2 uses the same description as the previous 
   example: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.2 
        m=image 54111 TCP t38 
        a=direction:both 
    
   Unlike the previous example, the endpoint at 10.1.1.1 responds with 
   the following description: 
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1 
        m=image 54321 TCP t38 
        a=direction:both 
    
   This will cause the endpoint at 10.1.1.2 to initiate a connection to 
   port 54321 at 10.1.1.1, and the endpoint at 10.1.1.1 to initiate a 
   connection to port 54111 at 10.1.1.2.  Whichever TCP connection 
   succeeds will be used.  If both succeed, one of the connections may 
   be closed as an optimization, using the rules in section 3.3. 
    
   In order to minimize the chance that two connections are created, 
   the endpoint at 10.1.1.1 may opt to use the recommendation in 
   section 3.4, which would result in events occurring in the following 
   sequence: 
    
      1) The endpoint at 10.1.1.2 sends SDP as listed above.  The 
         endpoint MUST enable a listener on port 54111 at this time, 
         but is not able to initiate a TCP connection due to the fact 
 
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         that it does not have sufficient information from the endpoint 
         at 10.1.1.1. 

      2) The endpoint at 10.1.1.1, upon receiving the SDP, immediately 
         initiates a TCP connection to 10.1.1.2:54111. 

      3) In order to minimize the chance of a duplicate connection, the 
         endpoint at 10.1.1.1 pauses for a short time to allow the 
         endpoint at 10.1.1.2 to receive the TCP connection initiation. 

      4) After the short pause, the endpoint at 10.1.1.1 sends the SDP 
         response as listed above. 

   The pause in #3 gives the first TCP connection attempt a chance to 
   succeed, since withholding the SDP response deprives the endpoint at  
   10.1.1.2 of the information it needs to attempt its own TCP 
   connection. 
    
7.5 Example: "Bidirectional" RTP and RTCP 
    
   An endpoint at 10.1.1.2 is behind a NAT and does not know its own 
   public address.  
    
        c=IN IP4 10.1.1.2  
        m=audio 9 RTP/AVP 0  
        a=direction:active  
    
   A peer with a public IP address responds as follows and waits to 
   receive RTP and RTCP packets from its active peer.  
    
        c=IN IP4 1.2.3.4  
        m=audio 18240 RTP/AVP 0  
        a=direction:passive  
     
   The endpoint at 10.1.1.2 immediately sends RTP from port 9012 to 
   1.2.3.4 port 18240. A NAT translates the source address to 5.6.7.8 
   port 1542.  The passive endpoint receives this RTP packet and stores 
   this source address. When the passive endpoint wants to send RTP 
   media it sends it back to 5.6.7.8 port 1542. The NAT translates this 
   destination address back to 10.1.1.2 port 9012 and delivers it to 
   the active endpoint.  
    
   Likewise the endpoint at 10.1.1.2 immediately sends RTCP from port 
   9013 to 1.2.3.4:18241. The NAT translates this to 5.6.7.8:1984. The 
   passive endpoint receives the RTCP packet and stores the source 
   address. The passive endpoint sends its RTCP to 5.6.7.8:1984 which 
   is translated back to 10.1.1.2:9013 and delivered to the active 
   endpoint. 
    
8  Security Considerations 
    
   See [SDP] for security and other considerations specific to the 
   Session Description Protocol in general. 
    
 
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9  IANA Considerations 
    
   As recommended by [SDP] Appendix B, the direction and reconnect 
   attributes described in this document should be registered with 
   IANA, as should the "TCP" and "TLS" protocol identifiers. 
    
 
Acknowledgements 
    
   The author would like to thank Jonathan Rosenberg, Rohan Mahy, 
   Anders Kristensen, Jeorg Ott, Paul Kyzivat, and Robert Fairlie-
   Cuninghame for their valuable insights and contributions. 








































 
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Appendix A: Direction Attribute Syntax 
    
   This appendix provides an Augmented BNF [ABNF] grammar for 
   expressing the direction attribute for connection setup.  It is 
   intended as an extension to the grammar for the Session Description 
   Protocol, as defined in [SDP].  Specifically, it describes the 
   syntax for the new "connection-setup" attribute field, which MAY be 
   either a session-level or media-level attribute. 
    
   connection-setup =    "direction" ":" direction-spec 
    
   direction-spec =      "both" / "active" / "passive" 
 
   reconnect-attribute = "reconnect" 
    
References 
    
   [ABNF]      D. Crocker, P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax  
               Specifications: ABNF," RFC 2234, November 1997 
    
   [SDP]       M. Handley, V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description  
               Protocol," RFC 2327, April 1998 
    
   [T38]       International Telecommunication Union, "Procedures for  
               Real-Time Group 3 Facsimile Communications over IP  
               Networks," Recommendation T.38, June 1998 
                
   [TLS]       T. Dierks, C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol," RFC 2246,  
               January 1999 
    
   [UTF-8]     F. Yergeau, "UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode  
               and ISO 10646," RFC 2044, October 1996 
    
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