Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Terriberry Request for Comments: 7007 Mozilla Corporation Updates: 3551 August 2013 Category: Standards Track ISSN: 2070-1721Update to Remove DVI4 from the Recommended Codecs for the RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (RTP/AVP)
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RFC 7007 RTP/AVP Codecs August 2013
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1. Introduction
[RFC3551] says that audio applications operating under the RTP/AVP profile SHOULD be able to send and receive PCMU and DVI4. However, in practice, many RTP deployments do not support DVI4, and there is little reason to use it when much more modern codecs are available. This document updates the recommended audio codec selection for the RTP/AVP profile and removes the SHOULD for DVI4. By extension, this also updates the profiles that build on RTP/AVP, including RTP/SAVP [RFC3711], RTP/AVPF [RFC4585], and RTP/SAVPF [RFC5124].
2. Terminology
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 [RFC2119].
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RFC 7007 RTP/AVP Codecs August 2013 3. Updates to RFC 3551The following text of [RFC3551] is hereby updated as set forth in Section 3.1:
3.1. Updates to Section 6 of RFC 3551
This document updates the final paragraph of Section 6 of RFC 3551 by replacing "payload types 0 (PCMU) and 5 (DVI4)" with "payload type 0 (PCMU)". We also add a final sentence to that paragraph that states, "Some environments necessitate support for PCMU". This results in the following paragraph:
4. Security Considerations
This document does not introduce any new security considerations for [RFC3551].
5. Acknowledgments
Thanks to Colin Perkins for suggesting this update.
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RFC 7007 RTP/AVP Codecs August 2013 6. References 6.1. Normative References[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
6.2. Informative References
[RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K.