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  <front>
    <title abbrev="DiffServ and RT Communication">Differentiated Services
    (DiffServ) and Real-time Communication</title>

    <author fullname="Dan York" initials="D." role="editor" surname="York">
      <organization>Internet Society</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street/>

          <city>Keene</city>

          <region>N.H.</region>

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

        <phone>+1-802-735-1624</phone>

        <email>dyork@lodestar2.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="David Black" initials="D." role="editor" surname="Black">
      <organization>EMC</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>176 South Street</street>

          <city>Hopkinton</city>

          <region>MA</region>

          <code>01748</code>

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

        <phone>+1 508 293-7953</phone>

        <email>david.black@emc.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Cullen Jennings" initials="C." surname="Jennings">
      <organization>Cisco</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>170 West Tasman Drive</street>

          <street>MS: SJC-21/2</street>

          <city>San Jose</city>

          <region>CA</region>

          <code>95134</code>

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

        <phone>+1 408 421-9990</phone>

        <email>fluffy@cisco.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Paul Jones" initials="P." surname="Jones">
      <organization>Cisco</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street/>

          <city/>

          <region/>

          <code/>

          <country/>
        </postal>

        <phone/>

        <facsimile/>

        <email/>

        <uri/>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date year="2014"/>

    <area>RAI</area>

    <workgroup>DiffServ Applied to Real-time Transports</workgroup>

    <keyword>DiffServ,DSCP,RAI</keyword>

    <abstract>
      <t>This document describes the interaction between Differentiated
      Services (DiffServ) network quality of service (QoS) functionality and
      real-time network communication, including communication based on the
      Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). DiffServ is based on network nodes
      applying different forwarding treatments to packets whose IP headers are
      marked with different DiffServ Code Points (DSCPs). As a result, use of
      different DSCPs within a single traffic flow may cause transport
      protocol interactions (e.g., due to reordering). In addition, DSCP
      markings may be changed or removed between the traffic source and
      destination. This document covers the implications of these DiffServ
      aspects for real-time network communication, including RTCWEB.</t>
    </abstract>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <!-- Intro text is rather limited, copied from abstract - needs to be improved. -->

      <t>This document describes the interactions between Differentiated
      Services (DiffServ) network quality of service (QoS) functionality <xref
      target="RFC2475"/> and real-time network communication, including
      communication based on the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) <xref
      target="RFC3550"/>. DiffServ is based on network nodes applying
      different forwarding treatments to packets whose IP headers are marked
      with different DiffServ Code Points (DSCPs)<xref target="RFC2474"/>. As
      a result use of different DSCPs within a single traffic stream may cause
      transport protocol interactions (e.g., due to reordering). In addition,
      DSCP markings may be changed or removed between the traffic's source and
      destination. This document covers the implications of these DiffServ
      aspects for real-time network communication, including RTCWEB traffic
      <xref target="I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview"/>.</t>

      <section title="Requirements Language">
        <t>The key words "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">RFC 2119</xref>.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Background" title="Background">
      <t>Real-time communications enables communication in real-time over an
      IP network using communication modalities, such as voice, video, text,
      content sharing, etc. It is possible to utilize any one or more
      modalities in parallel in order to provide for a richer communication
      experience.</t>

      <t>A simple example of real-time communications is a voice call placed
      over the Internet wherein an audio flow is transmitted in each direction
      between two users. A more complex example is an immersive
      videoconferencing system that has multiple video screens, multiple
      cameras, multiple microphones, and some means of sharing content. For
      such complex systems, there may be multiple media flows that may be
      transmitted via a single IP address and port or via multiple IP
      addresses and ports.</t>

      <t>The most common protocol used for real time media is the Real-Time
      Transport Protocol (RTP)<xref target="RFC3550"/>. RTP defines the
      mechanism by which real-time data is transmitted between hosts on the
      Internet. With most applications, a single media type (e.g., audio) is
      transmitted within a single RTP session. However, it is possible to
      transmit multiple, distinct media flows over the same RTP session as
      individual RTP packet streams. This is referred to as RTP
      multiplexing.</t>

      <t>For the purposes of this draft, the term "media flow" refers to a
      sequence of packets that is transmitted as a single RTP packet
      stream.</t>

      <t>Other transport protocols may also be used to transmit real-time data
      or near-real-time data. For example, SCTP might be utilized to carry
      application sharing or whiteboarding information as part of an overall
      interaction that includes real time media flows. These additional
      transport protocols can be multiplexed with one or more RTP sessions via
      UDP encapsulation, thereby using a single pair of UDP ports. The RTCWEB
      protocol suite <xref target="I-D.ietf-rtcweb-transports"/> employs two
      layers of multiplexing:<list style="numbers">
          <t>Individual media flows are carried in individual RTP packet
          streams that can multiplexed into a single RTP session (for
          RTCWEB,an individual media flow is a MediaStreamTrack, and a
          MediaStream may contain multiple MediaStreamTracks <xref
          target="W3C.WD-mediacapture-streams-20130903"/>); and</t>

          <t>One or more RTP session(s) multiplexed could be multiplexed with
          other transport protocols via UDP encapsulation over a common pair
          of UDP ports. The resulting unidirectional UDP flow is uniquely
          identified by a 5-tuple, i.e., a combination of two IP addresses
          (source and destination), two UDP ports (source and destination),
          and the use of the UDP protocol.</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>For more information on use of RTP in RTCWEB, see <xref
      target="I-D.ietf-rtcweb-rtp-usage">.</xref>.</t>

      <t>The number of media and other transport flows in an overall real-time
      interaction can be surprisingly large. In addition to a voice flow and a
      video flow, there could be separate media flows for each of the cameras
      or microphones on a videoconferencing system. For each of those video
      flows, and especially for layered video codecs, there might be flows
      that carry spatial and temporal data separately from the base layer.
      There might also be a separate flow that provides protection to a media
      flow, using techniques such as Forward Error Correction or redundancy.
      Still another example is simulcast transmission, where a video flow can
      be transmitted at high resolution and low resolution at the same time.
      In this case, a media processing function might choose to send one or
      both flows downstream to a receiver based on bandwidth availability or
      who the active speaker is in a multipoint conference. Lastly, a
      transmitter might send a the same media content concurrently as two
      media flows using different encodings (e.g., VP8 in parallel with H.264)
      to allow a media processing function to select a media encoding that
      best matches the capabilities of the receiver.</t>

      <section anchor="DiffServ" title="Differentiated Services (DiffServ)">
        <t>The DiffServ architecture is intended to enable scalable service
        discrimination in the Internet without requiring per-flow state and
        signaling at every network node. The services may be end-to-end or
        within a network; they include both those that can satisfy
        quantitative performance requirements (e.g., peak bandwidth) and those
        based on relative performance (e.g., "class" differentiation).
        Services can be constructed by a combination of well-defined building
        blocks deployed in network nodes that: <list style="symbols">
            <t>classify traffic and setting bits in an IP header field at
            network boundaries or hosts,</t>

            <t>use those bits to determine how packets are forwarded by the
            nodes inside the network, and</t>

            <t>condition the marked packets (e.g., meter, mark, shape, police)
            at network boundaries in accordance with the requirements or rules
            of each service.</t>
          </list>A network node that supports DiffServ includes a classifier
        that selects packets based on the value of the DS field in IP headers,
        along with buffer management and packet scheduling mechanisms capable
        of delivering the specific packet forwarding treatment indicated by
        the DS field value. Setting of the DS field and fine-grain
        conditioning of marked packets need only be performed at network
        boundaries; internal network nodes operate on traffic aggregates that
        share a DS field value, or in some cases, a small set of related
        values.</t>

        <t>The DiffServ architecture<xref target="RFC2475"/> maintains
        distinctions among:<list style="symbols">
            <t>the service provided to a traffic aggregate,</t>

            <t>the conditioning functions and per-hop behaviors (PHBs) used to
            realize services,</t>

            <t>the DS field value (DS codepoint, or DSCP) used to mark packets
            to select a per-hop behavior, and</t>

            <t>the particular implementation mechanisms that realize a per-hop
            behavior.</t>
          </list></t>

        <t>This document focuses on PHBs and the usage of DSCPs to obtain
        those behaviors. In a network node's forwarding path, the DSCP in a
        field in the IP packet header is mapped to a particular forwarding
        treatment, or per-hop behavior (PHB) that specifies the forwarding
        treatment.</t>

        <t>A per-hop behavior (PHB) is a description of the externally
        observable forwarding behavior of a network node for network traffic
        marked with a DSCP that selects that PHB. In this context, "forwarding
        behavior" is a general - for example, if only one DSCP is used for all
        traffic on a link, the observable forwarding behavior (e.g., loss,
        delay, jitter) will often depend only on the relative loading of the
        link. To obtain useful behavioral differentiation,multiple traffic
        subsets are marked with different DSCPs for different PHBs for which
        node resources such as buffer space and bandwidth are allocated. PHBs
        provide the framework for a DiffServ network node to allocates
        resources to traffic subsets, with network-scope differentiated
        services constructed on top of this basic hop-by-hop (per-node)
        resource allocation mechanism.</t>

        <t>The codepoints (DCSPs) may be chosen from a set of mandatory values
        (the class selector codepoints), or may be chosen from a set of
        recommended values defined in PHB specifications, or may be values may
        have purely local meaning to the network.</t>

        <t>The mandatory DSCPs are the class selector code points as specified
        in <xref target="RFC2474"/>. The class selector codepoints (CS0-CS7)
        extend the deprecated concept of IP Precedence in the IPv4 header;
        three bits are added, so that the class selector DSCPs are of the form
        'xxx000'. The all-zero DSCP ('00000') designates a Default PHB that
        provides best-effort forwarding behavior and the remaining class
        selector code points were originally specified to provide relatively
        better per-hop-forwarding behavior in increasing numerical order,
        but:<list style="symbols">
            <t>There is no requirement that any two adjacent class selector
            codepoints select different PHBs; adjacent class selector
            codepoints may use the same pool of resources on each network node
            in some networks.</t>

            <t>CS1 ('001000') was subsequently recommended for "less than best
            effort" service when such a service is offered by a network <xref
            target="RFC3662"/>. Not all networks offer such a service.</t>
          </list></t>

        <t>Applications and traffic sources in general cannot rely upon
        different class selector codepoints providing differentiated services
        or upon the presence of a "less than best effort" service that is
        selected by the CS1 DSCP.</t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="DiffServPHBs" title="Diffserv PHBs (Per-Hop Behaviors)">
        <t>Although Differentiated Services is a general architecture that may
        be used to implement a variety of services, three fundamental
        forwarding behaviors (PHBs) have been defined and characterized for
        general use. These are:<list style="numbers">
            <t>Default Forwarding (DF) for elastic traffic <xref
            target="RFC2474"/>. The Default PHB is always selected by the
            all-zero DSCP.</t>

            <t>Assured Forwarding (AF) <xref target="RFC2597"/> to provide
            differentiated service to elastic traffic. Each instance of the AF
            behavior consists of three PHBs that differ only in drop
            precedence, e.g., AF11, AF12 and AF13; such a set of three AF PHBs
            is referred to as an AF class, e.g., AF1x. There are four defined
            AF classes, AF1x through AF4x.</t>

            <t>Expedited Forwarding (EF) <xref target="RFC3246"/>intended for
            inelastic traffic. Beyond the basic EF PHB, the VOICE-ADMIT PHB
            <xref target="RFC5865"/> is an admission controlled variant of the
            EF PHB.</t>
          </list></t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="DiffServAndTransport"
               title="DiffServ and Transport Protocols">
        <t>[Editor's note: This section and the recommendations in Section 4
        are centered on TCP, UDP, and SCTP. They could use generalization to
        include other transport protocols - DCCP is a likely one to include,
        although it is not necessary to include every known transport
        protocol.]</t>

        <t>Transport protocols provide data communication behaviors beyond
        those possible at the IP layer. An important example is that TCP
        provides reliable in-order delivery of a data stream with congestion
        control. SCTP provides additional properties such as preservation of
        message boundaries, and the ability to avoid head-of-line blocking
        that may occur with TCP. In contrast, UDP is a basic unreliable
        datagram protocol whose primary functionality is port-based
        multiplexing and demultiplexing on top of IP.</t>

        <t>Transport protocols that provide reliable delivery (e.g., TCP,
        SCTP) are sensitive to network reordering of traffic. When a protocol
        that provides reliable delivery receives a packet other than the next
        expected packet for an ordered connection or stream, it usually
        assumes that the expected packet has been lost and respond with a
        retransmission request for that packet. In addition, congestion
        control functionality in transport protocols usually infers congestion
        when packets are lost, creating an additional sensitivity to
        significant reordering - such reordering may be (mis-)interpreted as
        indicating congestion-caused packet loss, causing a reduction in
        transmission rate. This remains true even when ECN <xref
        target="RFC3168"/> is in use, as receivers continue to treat missing
        packets as potential indications of congestion because extreme
        congestion conditions may cause ECN-capable network nodes to drop
        packets and ECN traffic may transit network nodes that do not support
        ECN. Congestion control is an important aspect of the Internet
        architecture, see <xref target="RFC2914"/> for further discussion.</t>

        <t>In general, marking traffic with different DSCPs results in
        different PHBs being applied at network nodes, making reordering
        possible due to use of different pools of forwarding resources for
        each PHB. The primary exception is that reordering is prohibited
        within each AF class (e.g., AF1x), as the three PHBs in an AF class
        differ solely in drop precedence. Reordering within a PHB or AF class
        may occur for other transient reasons (e.g., route flap).</t>

        <t>UDP is the primary transport protocol that is not sensitive to
        reordering in the network, because it does not provide reliable
        delivery or congestion control.</t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="TCs-Remarking"
               title="Traffic Classifiers and DSCP Remarking">
        <t>DSCP markings are not end-to-end in general. Each network is free
        to make its own decisions about what PHBs to use and which DSCP
        corresponds to each PHB. While every PHB specification includes a
        recommended DSCP, and RFC 4594 <xref target="RFC4594"/> recommends
        their end-to-end usage, there is no requirement that every network
        support any PHBs or use any DSCPs, with the exception of the
        requirements for the class selector codepoints in RFC 2474 <xref
        target="RFC2474"/>. When DiffServ is used, the edge or boundary nodes
        of a network are responsible for ensuring that all traffic entering
        that network conforms to that network's policies for DSCP and PHB
        usage, and such nodes remark traffic (change the DSCP marking as part
        of traffic conditioning) accordingly. As a result, DSCP remarking is
        possible at any network boundary, including the first network node
        that traffic sent by a host encounters. Remarking is also possible
        within a network, e.g., for traffic shaping.</t>

        <t>DSCP remarking is part of traffic conditioning; the traffic
        conditioning functionality applied to packets at a network node is
        determined by a traffic classifier <xref target="RFC2475"/>. BA
        (Behavioral Aggregate) traffic classifiers are usually used by network
        nodes within a DiffServ network; they classify traffic based solely on
        DSCPs. MF (Multi-Field) classifiers are usually used by network nodes
        at the edges of a DiffServ network, but may also be used for finer
        grain traffic conditioning within a DiffServ network; they classify
        based on selected header fields, but typical implementations do not
        look beyond the traffic's 5-tuple in the IP and transport protocol
        headers. As a result, when multiple DSCPs are used for network traffic
        that shares a 5-tuple, remarking at a network boundary (or within a
        network) may result in all of the traffic being forwarded with a
        single DSCP, removing any differentiation within the 5-tuple beyond
        the point at which this remarking occurs.</t>

        <t>In addition, remarking may remove application-level distinctions in
        forwarding behavior - e.g., if multiple PHBs within an AF class are
        used to distinguish different types of frames within a video flow,
        token-bucket-based remarkers operating in Color-Blind mode (see <xref
        target="RFC2697"/> and <xref target="RFC2698"/> for examples) may
        remark solely based on flow rate and burst behavior, removing the drop
        precedence distinctions specified by the source.</t>

        <t>Backbone and other carrier networks may employ a small number of
        DSCPs (e.g., less than half a dozen) in order to manage a small number
        of traffic aggregates; hosts that use a larger number of DSCPs may
        find that much of the intended differentiation is removed by such
        networks.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section anchor="RTP" title="RTP Multiplexing Background">
      <t>Section<xref format="counter" target="Background"/> explains how
      media flows can be multiplexed over RTP sessions which can in turn be
      multiplexed over UDP with other RTP sessions as well as flows generated
      by other transport protocols. This section provides background on why
      this level of media flow multiplexing is desirable. The rationale in
      this section applies both to multiplexing of media flows in RTP sessions
      and multiplexing of one or more RTP sessions with traffic from other
      transport protocols via UDP encapsulation.</t>

      <t>Multiplexing reduces the number of ports utilized for real-time and
      related communication in an overall interaction. While a single endpoint
      might have plenty of ports available for communication, these media
      flows are often traverse points in the network that are constrained on
      the number of available ports. A good example is a NAT/FW device sitting
      at the network edge. As the number of simultaneous protocol sessions
      increases, so does the burden placed on these devices in order to
      provide port mapping.</t>

      <t>Another reason for multiplexing is to help reduce the time required
      to establish bi-directional traffic flows. Since any two communicating
      users might be situated behind different NAT/FW devices, it is necessary
      to employ techniques like STUN/ICE/TURN in order to get traffic to flow
      between the two devices <xref target="I-D.ietf-rtcweb-transports"/>.
      Performing the tasks required of STUN/ICE/TURN take time and requiring
      an endpoint to perform these tasks for several flows can increase the
      time required. While tasks for different flows can be performed in
      parallel, it is nonetheless necessary for applications to wait for all
      flows to be opened before communication between to users can begin.
      Reducing the number of STUN/ICE/TURN steps reduces the probability of
      losing a packet and introducing delay in setting up a communication
      session. Further, reducing the number of STUN/ICE/TURN tasks means that
      there is a lower burden placed on the STUN and TURN servers.</t>

      <t>Multiplexing may reduce the complexity and resulting load on an
      endpoint. A single instance of STUN/ICE/TURN is simpler to execute and
      manage than multiple instances STUN/ICE/TURN operations happening in
      parallel, as the latter require synchronization and create more complex
      failure situations that have to be cleaned up by additional code.</t>

      <!--Explain:

RTP has timing information in so two different flows, one for audio, and one for video, 
can be later synchronized and played at same time even if they got significantly 
reordered. 

Mention of jitter buffers.

-->
    </section>

    <section anchor="Recommendations" title="Recommendations">
      <t>The only use of multiple standardized PHBs and DSCPs that does not
      allow network reordering among packets marked with different DSCPs is
      the use of PHBs from a single AF class. All other uses of multiple PHBs
      and/or the class selector DSCPs allow network reordering of packets that
      are marked with different DSCPs.</t>

      <t>[Editor's note: The following are preliminary and subject to change.
      Please keep in mind that this is a -00 draft] Summary - Applications and
      other traffic sources:<list style="symbols">
          <t>SHOULD NOT use different PHBs and DSCPs that may cause reordering
          within a single media flow. If this is not done, significant network
          reordering may overwhelm implementation assumptions about limits on
          reordering (e.g., available buffering) resulting in poor user
          experiences and the like.</t>

          <t>SHOULD NOT use different PHBs and DSCPs that may cause reordering
          within an ordered session for a reliable transport protocol (e.g.,
          TCP, SCTP) , Receivers for such protocols interpret reordering as
          indicating loss of out-of-order packets causing undesired
          retransmission requests, and will infer congestion from significant
          reordering, causing throughput reduction.</t>

          <t>MAY use different PHBs and DSCPs that cause reordering within a
          single UDP 5-tuple, subject to the above constraints. The service
          differentiation provided by such usage is unreliable, as it may be
          removed at network boundaries for the reasons described in Section
          <xref format="counter" target="TCs-Remarking"/> above.</t>

          <t>SHOULD NOT rely on end-to-end preservation of DSCPs or of drop
          precedence distinctions within an AF class (e.g., different DCSPs
          applied to different types of video frames), as network node
          remarking can change DSCPs and remove drop precedence distinctions
          see Section <xref format="counter" target="TCs-Remarking"/>
          above.</t>

          <t>SHOULD use the CS1 codepoint only for traffic that is acceptable
          to forward as best effort traffic, as network support for use of CS1
          to select a "less than best effort" PHB is inconsistent. Further,
          some networks may treat CS1 as providing "better than best effort"
          forwarding behavior.</t>
        </list></t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="RTCWEB" title="RTCWEB Examples">
      <t>[Editor's Note: This section will provide examples of DiffServ/DSCP
      application to RTCWEB and related limitations.]</t>

      <!--
Examples of applying PHBs to traffic in accordance with the 
Explain why the we can't do local network configuration of values used 

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    </section>

    <section anchor="Acknowledgements" title="Acknowledgements">
      <t>This document is the result of many conversations that have occurred
      within multiple RAI and TRANSPORT area working groups. Thanks for review
      and input from James Polk.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="IANA" title="IANA Considerations">
      <t>This document includes no request to IANA.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Security" title="Security Considerations">
      <t>[Editor's Note: There are security considerations, start by pointing
      to security considerations in the relevant references. Multiplexing
      multiple transport protocols onto a single UDP 5-tuple has firewall
      configuration and traffic inspection/monitoring implications.]</t>
    </section>
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title="Normative References">
      &RFC2119;
    </references>

    <references title="Informative References">
      <!--Need to decide which of these references are normative.-->

      &I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview-09;

      &I-D.ietf-rtcweb-rtp-usage-15;

      &I-D.ietf-rtcweb-transports-04;

      &RFC2474;

      &RFC2475;

      &RFC2597;

      &RFC2697;

      &RFC2698;

      &RFC2914;

      &RFC3168;

      &RFC3246;

      &RFC3550;

      &RFC3662;

      &RFC4594;

      &RFC5865;

      &W3C.WD-mediacapture-streams-20130903;
    </references>
  </back>
</rfc>

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