Subject: Internet Draft Forthcoming on Compressed RTP

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Date: Mon, 20 May 96 17:35:03 EDT

FROM: ED ELLESSON, RALVM6(ELLESSON) / [email-masked]
      Networking Systems Architecture, C70/B664
      P.O. 12195, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Subject: Internet Draft Forthcoming on Compressed RTP
An informal meeting was held last week, Wednesday, May 15, at Netscape,
Mountain View, Calif. on the subject of Compressed RTP.

The objective of the meeting was to begin to establish consensus
among interested parties on an approach to compressing RTP which would
first: reduce the size of the RTP headers, and second: reduce the
size of the combination of RTP, UDP and IP headers, for better
performance over low speed links.

Steve Casner presented a draft proposal, which was, in part, the result
of a conversation he had on this topic with Van Jacobson, the author
of RFC 1144, "Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links".
Steve accepted comments on this proposal from those present, some of whom
will work with Steve to complete the proposal, including Scott Petrack,
who presented on this topic at the last IETF.

You can expect to see the results of this work posted as an Internet
Draft to the rem-conf and issll mailing lists within the next few weeks.
This draft is expected to form the basis for continuing work on this
topic in the IETF.  I will also cross post the draft to this list (the
Internet Telephony Standards list), but please note that much of the
technical discussion is expected to occur on rem-conf and issll.  (If any
of you need to know how to add yourselves to these lists, please let me
know, and I will send you instructions.)

The attendees included:

Mike Po, Netscape
John Stracke, Netscape
Jack Toto, Netscape
Steve Casner, Precept
Judy Estrin, Precept
Dave Singer, Apple
Mark Green, Apple
Ramiro Calvo, Apple
John Harriman, Apple
Martin Dunsmuir, Progressive Networks
Dale Stammen, Progressive Networks
Ken Solkowitz, IBM
Ed Ellesson, IBM
Scott Petrack, IBM
Matt Krokosz, Voxware
Gerard Aguilar, Voxware

Regards,
Ed Ellesson
Emerging Technologies, Networking Architecture
T-444-4115, 919-254-4115 / FAX Number: T-444-5410, 919-254-5410