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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

R. Jesup
Z. Sarker, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

rmcat (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8836

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Abstract

Congestion control is needed for all data transported across the Internet, in order to promote fair usage and prevent congestion collapse. The requirements for interactive, point-to-point real-time multimedia, which needs low-delay, semi-reliable data delivery, are different from the requirements for bulk transfer like FTP or bursty transfers like web pages. Due to an increasing amount of RTP-based real-time media traffic on the Internet (e.g., with the introduction of the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)), it is especially important to ensure that this kind of traffic is congestion controlled.

This document describes a set of requirements that can be used to evaluate other congestion control mechanisms in order to figure out their fitness for this purpose, and in particular to provide a set of possible requirements for a real-time media congestion avoidance technique.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.