<?xmlversion='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE rfc [ <!ENTITY nbsp " "> <!ENTITY zwsp "​"> <!ENTITY nbhy "‑"> <!ENTITY wj "⁠"> ]><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rfc2629.xslt" ?> <!-- generated by https://github.com/cabo/kramdown-rfc version 1.6.15 (Ruby 3.1.2) --> <?rfc docmapping="yes"?><rfc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" ipr="trust200902" docName="draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons-12"category="info"number="9317" submissionType="IETF" category="info" consensus="true" tocInclude="true" sortRefs="true" symRefs="true" updates="" obsoletes="" xml:lang="en" version="3"> <!-- xml2rfc v2v3 conversion 3.13.1 --> <front> <title abbrev="Media StreamingOps">OperationalOperations">Operational Considerations for Streaming Media</title> <seriesInfoname="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons-12"/>name="RFC" value="9317"/> <author initials="J." surname="Holland" fullname="Jake Holland"> <organization>Akamai Technologies, Inc.</organization> <address> <postal> <street>150 Broadway</street><city>Cambridge, MA 02144</city><city>Cambridge</city> <region>MA</region> <code>02144</code> <country>United States of America</country> </postal> <email>jakeholland.net@gmail.com</email> </address> </author> <author initials="A." surname="Begen" fullname="Ali Begen"> <organization>Networked Media</organization> <address> <postal> <country>Turkey</country> </postal> <email>ali.begen@networked.media</email> </address> </author> <author initials="S." surname="Dawkins" fullname="Spencer Dawkins"> <organization>Tencent America LLC</organization> <address> <postal> <country>United States of America</country> </postal> <email>spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com</email> </address> </author> <date year="2022"month="August" day="08"/> <area>OPS</area> <workgroup>MOPS</workgroup> <keyword>Internet-Draft</keyword>month="October"/> <area>ops</area> <workgroup>mops</workgroup> <keyword>DASH</keyword> <keyword>HLS</keyword> <keyword>ABR</keyword> <keyword>adaptive streaming</keyword> <keyword>live streaming</keyword> <keyword>live latency</keyword> <keyword>media transport</keyword> <abstract> <t>This document provides an overview of operational networking and transport protocol issues that pertain to the quality of experience (QoE) when streaming video and other high-bitrate media over the Internet.</t> <t>This documentis intended to explainexplains the characteristics of streaming media delivery that have surprised network designers or transport experts who lack specific media expertise, since streaming media highlights key differences between common assumptions in existing networking practices and observations of media delivery issues encountered when streaming media over those existing networks.</t> </abstract> </front> <middle> <section anchor="intro"> <name>Introduction</name> <t>This document provides an overview of operational networking and transport protocol issues that pertain to the quality of experience (QoE) when streaming video and other high-bitrate media over the Internet.</t> <t>This document is intended to explain the characteristics of streaming media delivery that have surprised network designers or transport experts who lack specific media expertise, since streaming media highlights key differences between common assumptions in existing networking practices and observations of media delivery issues encountered when streaming media over those existing networks.</t> <section anchor="key-def"> <name>Key Definitions</name> <t>This document defines "high-bitrate streaming media over the Internet" as follows:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>"High-bitrate" is a context-sensitive term broadly intended to capture rates that can be sustained over some but not all of the target audience's network connections. A snapshot of values commonly qualifying as high-bitrate on today's Internet is given by the higher-value entries in <xref target="bvr"/>.</li> <li> <t>"Streaming" means the continuous transmission of media segments from a server to a client and its simultaneous consumption by the client. </t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>The term "simultaneous" is critical, as media segment transmission is not considered "streaming" if one downloads a media file and plays it after the download is completed. Instead, this would be called "download and play".</li> <li>This has two implications. First, the sending rate for media segments must match the client's consumption rate (whether loosely or tightly) to provide uninterrupted playback. That is, the client must not run out of media segments (bufferunderrun),underrun) and must not accept more media segments than it can buffer before playback (buffer overrun).</li> <li>Second, the client's media segment consumption rate is limited not only by the path's available bandwidth but also by media segment availability. The client cannot fetch media segments that a media server cannot provide (yet).</li> </ul> </li> <li>"Media" refers to any type of media and associatedstreamsstreams, such as video, audio, metadata, etc.</li> <li>"Over the Internet" means that a single operator does not have control of the entire path between media servers and media clients, so it is not a "walled garden".</li> </ul> <t>This document uses theseterms,terms to describe the streaming media ecosystem:</t> <dl> <dt>Streaming Media Operator:</dt> <dd><t>An<t>an entity that provides streaming media servers</t> </dd> <dt>Media Server:</dt> <dd><t>A<t>a server that provides streaming media to a mediaplayer</t> </dd> <dt/> <dd> <t>Also referedplayer, which is also referred to as a streaming media server, or simply a server</t> </dd> <dt>Intermediary:</dt> <dd><t>An<t>an entity that is on-path, between the streaming media operator and the ultimate media consumer, and that ismedia-aware</t> </dd> <dt/> <dd>media aware</t> <t>When the streaming media is encrypted, an intermediary must have credentials that allow the intermediary to decrypt the media in order to bemedia-aware</t> </dd> <dt/> <dd>media aware.</t> <t>An intermediary can be one of many specialized subtypes that meet thisdefinition</t>definition.</t> </dd> <dt>Media Player:</dt> <dd><t>An<t>an endpoint that requests streaming media from a mediaplayerserver for an ultimate mediaconsumer</t> </dd> <dt/> <dd> <t>Alsoconsumer, which is also referred to as a streaming media client, or simply a client</t> </dd> <dt>Ultimate Media Consumer:</dt> <dd><t>A<t>a human or machine using a media player</t> </dd> </dl> </section> <section anchor="document-scope"> <name>Document Scope</name> <t>A full review of all streaming media considerations for all types of media over all types of network paths is too broad a topic to cover comprehensively in a single document.</t> <t>This document focuses chiefly on the large-scale delivery of streaming high-bitrate media to end users. It is primarily intended for those controlling endpoints involved in delivering streaming media traffic. This can include origin servers publishing content, intermediaries like content delivery networks (CDNs), and providers for client devices and media players.</t> <t>Most of the considerations covered in this document applybothto both "live media" (created and streamed as an event is in progress) and "media on demand" (previously recorded media that is streamed from storage), except where noted.</t> <t>Most of the considerations covered in this document applybothto both media that is consumed by a media player, for viewing by a human, and media that is consumed by a machine, such as a media recorder that is executing anABRadaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming algorithm, except where noted.</t> <t>This document contains</t> <ul spacing="normal"><li>A<li>a short description of streaming video characteristics in <xreftarget="sd"/>,target="sd"/> to set the stage for the rest of the document,</li><li>General<li>general guidance on bandwidth provisioning (<xref target="bwprov"/>) and latency considerations (<xref target="latency-cons"/>) for streaming media delivery,</li><li>A<li>a description of adaptive encoding and adaptive delivery techniques in common use for streaming video, along with a description of the challenges media senders face in detecting the bitrate available between the media sender and media receiver, and a collection of measurements by a third party for use in analytics (<xref target="sec-abr"/>),</li><li>A<li>a description of existing transport protocols used for media streaming and the issues encountered when using those protocols, along with a description of the QUIC transport protocol <xref target="RFC9000"/> more recently used for streaming media (<xref target="sec-trans"/>),</li><li>A<li>a description of implications when streaming encrypted media (<xref target="stream-encrypt-media"/>), and</li><li>Several pointers<li>a pointer to additional resources for further reading on this rapidly changing subject (<xref target="further"/>).</li> </ul> <t>Topics outside this scopeinclude:</t>include the following:</t> <ul spacing="normal"><li>in-depth<li>an in-depth examination ofreal-timereal-time, two-way interactive media, such as videoconferencing; although this document touches lightly on topics related to this space, the intent is to let readers know that for more in-depthcoverage,coverage they should look to other documents, since the techniques and issues for interactivereal-timereal-time, two-way media differ so dramatically from those inlarge-scalelarge-scale, one-way delivery of streaming media.</li> <li>specific recommendations on operational practices to mitigate issues described in this document; although some known mitigations are mentioned in passing, the primary intent is to provide a point of reference for future solution proposals to describe how new technologies address or avoid existing problems.</li> <li>generalized network performance techniques; whileconsiderationsconsiderations, such asdatacenterdata center design, transit network design, and "walled garden"optimizationsoptimizations, can be crucial components of a performant streaming media service, these are considered independent topics that are better addressed by other documents.</li> <li>transparent tunnels; while tunnels can have an impact on streaming media via issues like the round-trip time and the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of packets carried over tunnels, for the purposes of this document, these issues are considered as part of the set of network path properties.</li> </ul><t>It is worth pointing out explicitly because questions<t>Questions about whether this document also covers "Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)"hashave come upoften, that RTP, WebRTC'soften. It does not. WebRTC’s principal media transport protocol(<xref target="RFC8834"/>,<xreftarget="RFC8835"/>),target="RFC8834"/> <xref target="RFC8835"/>, the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), is mentioned in this document. However,(asas noted in <xreftarget="sd"/>)target="sd"/>, it is difficult to give general guidance for unreliable media transport protocols used to carry interactive real-time media.</t> </section><section anchor="notes-for-contributors-and-reviewers"> <name>Notes for Contributors and Reviewers</name> <t>Note to RFC Editor: Please remove this section and its subsections before publication.</t> <t>This section is to provide references to make it easier to review the development and discussion on the draft so far.</t> <section anchor="venue"> <name>Venues for Contribution and Discussion</name> <t>This document is in the GitHub repository at:</t> <t><eref target="https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons">https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons</eref></t> <t>Readers are welcome to open issues and send pull requests for this document.</t> <t>Substantial discussion of this document should take place on the MOPS working group mailing list (mops@ietf.org).</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Join: <eref target="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mops">https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mops</eref></li> <li>Search: <eref target="https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mops/">https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mops/</eref></li> </ul> </section> </section></section> <section anchor="sd"> <name>Our Focus on Streaming Video</name> <t>As the Internet has grown, an increasingly large share of the traffic delivered to end users has become video. The most recent available estimates found that 75% of the total traffic to end users was video in 2019 (as described in <xref target="RFC8404"/>, such traffic surveys have since become impossible to conduct due to ubiquitous encryption). At that time, the share of video traffic had been growing for years and was projected to continue growing (Appendix D of <xref target="CVNI"/>).</t> <t>A substantial part of this growth is due to the increased use of streaming video. However, video traffic in real-time communications (for example, online videoconferencing) has also grown significantly. While both streaming video and videoconferencing have real-time delivery and latency requirements, these requirements vary from one application to another. For additional discussion of latency requirements, see <xref target="latency-cons"/>.</t> <t>In many contexts, media traffic can be handled transparently as generic application-level traffic. However, as the volume of media traffic continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important to consider the effects of network design decisions on application-level performance, with considerations for the impact on media delivery.</t> <t>Much of the focus of this document is on media streaming over HTTP. HTTP is widely used for media streaming because</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>support for HTTP is widely available in a wide range of operating systems,</li> <li>HTTP is also used in a wide variety of other applications,</li> <li>HTTP has been demonstrated to provide acceptable performance over the open Internet,</li> <li>HTTP includes state-of-the-art standardized security mechanisms, and</li> <li>HTTP can use already-deployed cachinginfrastructureinfrastructure, such ascontent delivery networks (CDN),CDNs, local proxies, and browser caches.</li> </ul> <t>Various HTTP versions have been used for media delivery. HTTP/1.0,HTTP/1.1HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 are carried over TCP <xreftarget="I-D.ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis"/>,target="RFC9293"/>, and TCP's transport behavior is described in <xref target="reliable-behavior"/>. HTTP/3 is carried over QUIC, and QUIC's transport behavior is described in <xref target="quic-behavior"/>.</t> <t>Unreliable media delivery using RTP and other UDP-based protocols is also discussed in Sections <xreftarget="ultralow"/>,target="ultralow" format="counter"/>, <xreftarget="unreliable-behavior"/>,target="unreliable-behavior" format="counter"/>, and <xreftarget="hop-by-hop-encrypt"/>,target="hop-by-hop-encrypt" format="counter"/>, but it is difficult to give general guidance for these applications. For instance, when packet loss occurs, the most appropriate response may depend on the type of codec being used.</t> </section> <section anchor="bwprov"> <name>Bandwidth Provisioning</name> <section anchor="scaling"> <name>Scaling Requirements for Media Delivery</name> <section anchor="bvr"> <name>Video Bitrates</name> <t>Video bitrate selection depends on many variables including the resolution (height and width), frame rate, color depth, codec, encoding parameters, scenecomplexitycomplexity, and amount of motion. Generally speaking, as the resolution, frame rate, color depth, scenecomplexitycomplexity, and amount of motion increase, the encoding bitrate increases. As newer codecs with better compression tools are used, the encoding bitrate decreases. Similarly, a multi-pass encoding generally produces better quality output compared to single-pass encoding at the same bitrate or delivers the same quality at a lower bitrate.</t> <t>Here are a few common resolutions used for video content, with typical ranges of bitrates for the two most popular video codecs <xref target="Encodings"/>.</t> <table> <name>Typical Resolutions and Bitrate Ranges Used for Video Encoding</name> <thead> <tr> <th align="left">Name</th> <th align="left">Width x Height</th> <th align="left">H.264</th> <th align="left">H.265</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left">DVD</td> <td align="left">720 x 480</td> <td align="left">1.0 Mbps</td> <td align="left">0.5 Mbps</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">720p (1K)</td> <td align="left">1280 x 720</td> <td align="left">3-4.5 Mbps</td> <td align="left">2-4 Mbps</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">1080p (2K)</td> <td align="left">1920 x 1080</td> <td align="left">6-8 Mbps</td> <td align="left">4.5-7 Mbps</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">2160p (4k)</td> <td align="left">3840 x 2160</td> <td align="left">N/A</td> <td align="left">10-20 Mbps</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Note that these codecs do not take the actual "available bandwidth" betweenstreaming videomedia servers andstreaming video receiversmedia players into account when encoding because the codec does not have any idea what network paths and network path conditions will carry the encoded video at some point in the future. It is common for codecs to offer a small number of resource variants, differing only in the bandwidth each variant targets.</li> <li>Note thatvideo receiversmedia players attempting to receive encoded video across a network path with insufficient available path bandwidth might request thevideomedia server to provide video encoded for lower bitrates, at the cost of lower video quality, as described in <xref target="adapt-deliver"/>.</li> <li>In order to provide multiple encodings for video resources, the codec must produce multipleversionsvariants (also called renditions) of the video resource encoded at various bitrates, as described in <xref target="adapt-encode"/>.</li> </ul> </section> <section anchor="virtual-reality-bitrates"> <name>Virtual Reality Bitrates</name> <t>The bitrates given in <xref target="bvr"/> describe video streams that provide the user with a single, fixed point of view- so,-- therefore, the user has no "degrees offreedom,"freedom", and the user sees all of the video image that is available.</t> <t>Even basic virtual reality (360-degree) videos that allow users to look around freely (referred to as "three degrees of freedom" or 3DoF) require substantially larger bitrates when they are captured andencodedencoded, as such videos require multiple fields of view of the scene. Yet, due to smart deliverymethodsmethods, such as viewport-based or tile-based streaming, there is no need to send the whole scene to the user. Instead, the user needs only the portion corresponding to its viewpoint at any given time(<xref target="Survey360o"/>).</t><xref target="Survey360"/>.</t> <t>In more immersive applications, where limited user movement ("three degrees of freedom plus" or 3DoF+) or full user movement ("six degrees of freedom" or 6DoF) is allowed, the required bitrate grows even further. In this case, immersive content is typically referred to as volumetric media. One way to represent the volumetric media is to use point clouds, where streaming a single object may easily require a bitrate of 30 Mbps or higher. Refer to <xref target="MPEGI"/> and <xref target="PCC"/> for more details.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="sec-band-constraints"> <name>Path Bottlenecks and Constraints</name> <t>Even when the bandwidth requirements for media streams along a path are well understood, additional analysis is required to understand the constraints on bandwidth at various points along the path between media servers and media players. Media streams can encounter bottlenecks at many points along a path, whether the bottleneck happens at a node or at a path segment along the path, and these bottlenecks may involve a lack of processing power, buffering capacity, link speed, or any other exhaustible resource.</t> <t>Media servers may react to bandwidth constraints using two independent feedback loops:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Media servers often respond to application-level feedback from the media player that indicates a bottleneck somewhere along the path byadjusting the number of media segments that the media server will send to the media player insending agiven timeframe.different media bitrate. This is described in greater detail in <xref target="sec-abr"/>.</li> <li>Media servers also typically rely on transport protocols with capacity-seeking congestion controllers that probe for available path bandwidth and adjust the mediasegmentsending rate based on transport mechanisms. This is described in greater detail in <xref target="sec-trans"/>.</li> </ul> <t>The result is that these two (potentially competing) "helpful" mechanisms each respond to the same bottleneck with no coordination between themselves, so that each is unaware of actions taken by the other, and this can result in QoE for users that is significantly lower than what could have been achieved.</t> <t>One might wonder why media servers and transport protocols are each unaware of what the other is doing, and there are multiple reasons for that. One reason is that media servers are often implemented as applications executing in user space, relying on a general-purpose operating system that typically has its transport protocols implemented in the operating system kernel, making decisions that the media server never knows about.</t><t>In<t>As one example, if a media server overestimates the available bandwidth to the media player,</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>the transport protocol may detect loss due to congestion and reduce its sending window size per round trip,</li> <li>the media server adapts to application-level feedback from the media player and reduces its own sendingrate,</li>rate, and/or</li> <li>the transport protocol sends mediasegmentsat the new, lower rate and confirms that this new, lower rate is "safe" because no transport-level loss isoccurring, but</li> <li>becauseoccurring.</li> </ul> <t>However, because the media server continues to send at the new, lower rate, the transport protocol's maximum sending rate is now limited by the amount of information the media server queues fortransmission, so</li> <li>thetransmission. Therefore, the transport protocol cannot probe for available path bandwidth by sending at a higher rate until the mediareceiverplayer requests segments that buffer enough data for the transport to perform theprobing.</li> </ul>probing.</t> <t>To avoid these types of situations, which can potentially affect all the users whose streaming media segments traverse a bottleneck path segment, there are several possible mitigations that streaming operators can use. However, the first step toward mitigating a problem is knowing that a problem is occurring.</t> <section anchor="sec-know-your-traffic"> <name>Recognizing Changes from a Baseline</name> <t>There are many reasons why path characteristics might change in normaloperation, foroperation. For example:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>If the path topology changes. For example, routing changes, which can happen in normal operation, may result in traffic being carried over a new path topology thatthatis partially or entirelydisjointdisjointed from the previous path, especially if the new path topology includes one or more path segments that are more heavily loaded, offer lower total bandwidth, change the overall Path MTU size, or simply cover more distance between the path endpoints.</li> <li>If cross traffic that also traverses part or all of the same path topology increases or decreases, especially if this new cross traffic is"inelastic,""inelastic" and does not respond to indications of path congestion.</li> <li>Wireless links (Wi-Fi, 5G, LTE, etc.) may see rapid changes to capacity from changes in radio interference and signal strength as endpoints move.</li> </ul> <t>To recognize that a path carrying streaming mediasegmentshas experienced a change, maintaining a baseline that captures its prior properties is fundamental. Analytics that aid in that recognition can be more or less sophisticated and can usefully operate on several different time scales, from milliseconds to hours or days.</t> <t>Useful properties to monitor for changes caninclude:</t>include the following:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>round-trip times</li> <li>loss rate (and explicit congestion notification (ECN)(<xref<xref target="RFC3168"/> when in use)</li> <li>out-of-order packet rate</li> <li>packet and byte receive rate</li><li>application level<li>application-level goodput</li> <li>properties of other connections carrying competing traffic, in addition to the connections carrying the streamingmedia segments</li>media</li> <li>externally provided measurements, for example, from network cards or metrics collected by the operating system</li> </ul> </section> </section> <section anchor="pathreq"> <name>Path Requirements</name> <t>The bitrate requirements in <xref target="scaling"/> are per end user actively consuming a media feed, so in the worst case, the bitrate demands can be multiplied by the number of simultaneous users to find the bandwidth requirements for a delivery path with that number of users downstream. For example, at a node with 10,000 downstream users simultaneously consuming video streams, approximately 80 Gbps might be necessary for all of them to get typical content at 1080p resolution.</t> <t>However, when there is some overlap in the feeds being consumed by end users, it is sometimes possible to reduce the bandwidth provisioning requirements for the network by performing some kind of replication within the network. This can be achieved via object caching with the delivery of replicated objects over individual connections and/or by packet-level replication using multicast.</t> <t>To the extent that replication of popular content can be performed, bandwidth requirements at peering or ingest points can be reduced to as low as a per-feed requirement instead of a per-user requirement.</t> </section> <section anchor="caching"> <name>Caching Systems</name> <t>When demand for content is relatively predictable, and especially when that content is relatively static, caching content close to requesters andpre-loadingpreloading caches to respond quickly to initial requestsisare often useful (for example, HTTP/1.1 caching is described in <xref target="RFC9111"/>). This is subject to the usual considerations for caching--- for example, how much data must be cached to make a significant difference to the requester and how the benefit of caching andpre-loading cachespreloading cache balances against the costs of tracking stale content in caches and refreshing that content.</t> <t>It is worth noting that not all high-demand content is "live" content. One relevant example is when popular streaming content can be staged close to a significant number of requesters, as can happen when a new episode of a popular show is released. This content may be largelystable, sostable and is therefore low-cost to maintain in multiple places throughout the Internet. This can reduce demands for high end-to-end bandwidth without having to use mechanisms like multicast.</t> <t>Caching andpre-loadingpreloading can also reduce exposure to peering point congestion, since less traffic crosses the peering point exchanges if the caches are placed in peer networks. This is especially true when the content can bepre-loadedpreloaded during off-peakhours,hours and if the transfer can make use of"Lower-Effort"A Lower-Effort Per-Hop Behavior (LE PHB) for Differentiated Services" <xref target="RFC8622"/>, "Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)" <xref target="RFC6817"/>, or similar mechanisms.</t> <t>All of this depends, of course, on the ability of a streaming media operator to predict usage and provision bandwidth, caching, and other mechanisms to meet the needs of users. In some cases (<xref target="sec-predict"/>), this is relatively routine, but in other cases, it is more difficult (<xref target="sec-unpredict"/>).</t> <t>With the emergence of ultra-low-latency streaming, responses have to start streaming to the end user while still being transmitted to thecache,cache and while the cache does not yet know the size of the object. Some of the popular caching systems were designed around a cache footprint and had deeply ingrained assumptions about knowing the size of objects that are being stored, so the change in design requirements in long-established systems caused some errors in production. Incidents occurred where a transmission error in the connection from the upstream source to the cache could result in the cache holding a truncated segment and transmitting it to the end user's device. In this case, players rendering the stream often had a playback freeze until the player was reset. In some cases, the truncated object was even cached that way and served later to other players as well, causing continued stalls at the same spot in the media for all players playing the segment delivered from that cache node.</t> </section> <section anchor="sec-predict"> <name>Predictable Usage Profiles</name> <t>Historical data shows that users consume morevideosvideos, and these videos are encoded at a bitrate higher than they were in the past. Improvements in the codecs that help reduce the encoding bitrates with better compression algorithms have not offset the increase in the demand for the higher quality video (higher resolution, higher frame rate, better color gamut, better dynamic range, etc.). In particular, mobile data usage in cellular access networks has shown a large jump over the years due to increased consumption of entertainment and conversational video.</t> </section> <section anchor="sec-unpredict"> <name>Unpredictable Usage Profiles</name> <t>It is also possible for usage profiles to change significantly and suddenly. These changes are more difficult to plan for, but at a minimum, recognizing that sudden changes are happening is critical.</t><t>Two<t>The two examples that follow are instructive.</t> <section anchor="p2p"><name>Peer-to-peer<name>Peer-to-Peer Applications</name> <t>In the first example, described in "Report from the IETF Workshop on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Infrastructure, May 28, 2008"(<xref target="RFC5594"/>),<xref target="RFC5594"/>, when the BitTorrentfilesharingfile sharing application came into widespread use in 2005, sudden and unexpected growth in peer-to-peer traffic led to complaints from ISP customers about the performance of delay-sensitive traffic(VoIP(Voice over IP (VoIP) and gaming). These performance issues resulted from at least two causes:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Many access networks for end users used underlying technologies that are inherently asymmetric, favoring downstream bandwidth (e.g., ADSL, cellular technologies, and most IEEE 802.11 variants), assuming that most users will need more downstream bandwidth than upstream bandwidth. This is a good assumption for client-serverapplicationsapplications, such as streaming media or software downloads, but BitTorrent rewarded peers that uploaded as much as they downloaded, so BitTorrent users had much more symmetric usage profiles, which interacted badly with theseasymetricasymmetric access network technologies.</li><li>BitTorrent<li>Some P2P systems also used distributed hash tables to organize peers into a ring topology, where each peer knew its "next peer" and "previouspeer."peer". There was no connection between the application-level ring topology and the lower-level network topology, so a peer's "next peer" might be anywhere on the reachable Internet. Traffic models that expected most communication to take place with a relatively small number of servers were unable to cope with peer-to-peer traffic that was much less predictable.</li> </ul><t>Especially,<t>Especially as end users increase the use of video-based social networking applications, it will be helpful for access network providers to watch for increasing numbers of end users uploading significant amounts of content.</t> </section> <section anchor="impact-of-global-pandemic"> <name>Impact of Global Pandemic</name> <t>Early in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting quarantines and shutdowns led to significant changes in traffic patterns due to a large number of people who suddenly started working and attending school remotely and using more interactive applications(videoconferencing, in addition to(e.g., videoconferencing and streaming media). Subsequently, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) held a COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop <xref target="RFC9075"/> in November 2020. The following observations from the workshop report are worth considering.</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Participants describing different types of networks reported different kinds of impacts, but all types of networks saw impacts.</li> <li>Mobile networks saw trafficreductionsreductions, and residential networks saw significant increases.</li> <li>Reported traffic increases from ISPs and Internet Exchange Points(IXP)(IXPs) over just a few weeks were as big as the traffic growth over the course of a typical year, representing a 15-20% surge in growth to land at a new normal that was much higher than anticipated.</li> <li>AtDE-CIXDeutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) Frankfurt, the world's largest IXP in terms of data throughput, the year 2020 has seen the largest increase in peak traffic within a single year since the IXP was founded in 1995.</li> <li>The usage pattern changed significantly as work-from-home and videoconferencing usage peaked during normal work hours, which would have typically been off-peak hours with adults at work and children at school. One might expect that the peak would have had more impact on networks if it had happened during typical evening peak hours for streaming applications.</li> <li>The increase in daytime bandwidth consumption reflected both significant increases in essentialapplicationsapplications, such as videoconferencing and virtual private networks(VPN),(VPNs), and entertainment applications as people watched videos or played games.</li> <li>At the IXP level, it was observed that physical link utilization increased. This phenomenon could probably be explained by a higher level of uncacheabletraffictraffic, such as videoconferencing andVPNsVPNs, from residential users as they stopped commuting and switched towork-at-home.</li>working at home.</li> </ul> <t>Again, it will be helpful for streaming operators to monitor traffic as described in <xref target="measure-coll"/>, watching for sudden changes in performance.</t> </section> </section> </section> <section anchor="latency-cons"> <name>Latency Considerations</name> <t>Streaming media latency refers to the "glass-to-glass" time duration, which is the delay between the real-life occurrence of an event and the streamed media being appropriatelydisplayedplayed on an end user's device. Note that this is different from the network latency (defined as the time for a packet to cross a network from one end to another end) because it includes media encoding/decoding and bufferingtime, andtime and, for mostcasescases, also the ingest to an intermediateserviceservice, such as a CDN or other media distribution service, rather than a direct connection to an end user.</t> <t>The team working on this document found these rough categories to be useful when considering a streaming media application's latency requirements:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>ultra-low-latency (less than 1 second)</li> <li>low-latency live (less than 10 seconds)</li> <li>non-low-latency live (10 seconds to a few minutes)</li> <li>on-demand (hours or more)</li> </ul> <section anchor="ultralow"> <name>Ultra-Low-Latency</name> <t>Ultra-low-latency delivery of media is defined here as having a glass-to-glass delay target underone1 second.</t> <t>Some media content providers aim to achieve this level of latency for live media events. This introduces new challenges when compared to the other latency categories described in <xref target="latency-cons"/>, because ultra-low-latency is on the same scale as commonly observed end-to-end network latency variation, often due to bufferbloat(<xref target="CoDel"/>),<xref target="CoDel"/>, Wi-Fi error correction, or packet reordering. These effects can make it difficult to achieve ultra-low-latency for manyusers,users and may require accepting relatively frequent user-visible media artifacts. However, for controlled environments that provide mitigations against such effects, ultra-low-latency is potentially achievable with the right provisioning and the right media transport technologies.</t> <t>Most applications operating over IP networks and requiring latency this low use the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) <xref target="RFC3550"/> or WebRTC <xref target="RFC8825"/>, which uses RTP as itsMedia Transport Protocol,media transport protocol, along with several other protocols necessary for safe operation in browsers.</t><t>Worth noting<t>It is worth noting that many applications for ultra-low-latency delivery do not need to scale to as many users as applications for low-latency and non-low-latency live delivery, which simplifies many delivery considerations.</t> <t>Recommended reading for applications adopting an RTP-based approach also includes <xref target="RFC7656"/>. For increasing the robustness of the playback by implementing adaptive playout methods, refer to <xref target="RFC4733"/> and <xref target="RFC6843"/>.</t> <section anchor="near-realtime-latency"><name>Near-Realtime<name>Near-Real-Time Latency</name> <t>Some Internet applications that incorporate media streaming have specific interactivity or control-feedback requirements that drive much lower glass-to-glass media latency targets thanone1 second. These include videoconferencing or voicecalls,calls; remote videogameplay,gameplay; remote control of hardware platforms like drones, vehicles, or surgicalrobotsrobots; and many other envisioned or deployed interactive applications.</t> <t>Applications with latency targets in these regimes are out of scope for this document.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="low-latency-live"> <name>Low-Latency Live</name> <t>Low-latency live delivery of media is defined here as having a glass-to-glass delay target under 10 seconds.</t> <t>This level of latency is targeted to have a user experience similar to broadcast TV delivery. A frequently cited problem with failing to achieve this level of latency for live sporting events is the user experience failure from having crowds within earshot of one another who react audibly to an importantplay,play or from users who learn of an event in the match via some other channel, for example, social media, before it has happened on the screen showing the sporting event.</t> <t>Applications requiring low-latency live media delivery are generally feasible at scale with some restrictions. This typically requires the use of a premium service dedicated to the delivery of live media, and sometradeoffstrade-offs may be necessary relative to what is feasible in ahigher latencyhigher-latency service. Thetradeoffstrade-offs may include higher costs, delivering a lower quality media, reduced flexibility for adaptivebitratesbitrates, or reduced flexibility for available resolutions so that fewer devices can receive an encoding tuned for their display. Low-latency live delivery is also more susceptible to user-visible disruptions due to transient network conditions thanhigher latencyhigher-latency services.</t> <t>Implementation of a low-latency live media service can be achieved with the use of"HTTPHTTP Live Streaming(HLS)"(HLS) <xref target="RFC8216"/> by using its low-latency extension (called LL-HLS) <xreftarget="I-D.draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis"/>target="HLS-RFC8216BIS"/> or with"DynamicDynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP(DASH)"(DASH) <xref target="MPEG-DASH"/> by using its low-latency extension (called LL-DASH) <xref target="LL-DASH"/>. These extensions use the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) standard <xref target="MPEG-CMAF"/> that allows the media to be packaged into and transmitted in units smaller than segments, which are calledchunks"chunks" in CMAF language. This way, the latency can be decoupled from the duration of the media segments. Without a CMAF-like packaging, lower latencies can only be achieved by using very short segment durations. However, using shorter segments means using more frequent intra-codedframesframes, and that is detrimental to video encoding quality. The CMAF standard allows us to still use longer segments (improving encoding quality) without penalizing latency.</t> <t>While an LL-HLS client retrieves each chunk with a separate HTTP GET request, an LL-DASH client uses the chunked transfer encoding feature of the HTTP <xref target="CMAF-CTE"/>, which allows the LL-DASH client to fetch all the chunks belonging to a segment with a single GET request. An HTTP server can transmit the CMAF chunks to the LL-DASH client as they arrive from the encoder/packager. A detailed comparison of LL-HLS and LL-DASH is given in <xref target="MMSP20"/>.</t> </section> <section anchor="non-low-latency-live"> <name>Non-Low-Latency Live</name> <t>Non-low-latency live delivery of media is defined here as alivestreamlive stream that does not have a latency target shorter than 10 seconds.</t> <t>This level of latency is the historically common case for segmented media delivery using HLS and DASH. This level of latency is often considered adequate for content like news. This level of latency is also sometimes achieved as a fallback state when some part of the delivery system or the client-side players do nothave the necessary support for the features necessary tosupport low-latency live streaming.</t> <t>This level of latency can typically be achieved at scale with commodity CDN services for HTTP(s) delivery, and in some cases, the increased time window can allow for the production of a wider range of encoding options relative to the requirements for alower latencylower-latency service without the need for increasing the hardware footprint, which can allow for wider device interoperability.</t> </section> <section anchor="on-demand"> <name>On-Demand</name> <t>On-demand media streaming refers to the playback of pre-recorded media based on a user's action. In some cases, on-demand media is produced as a by-product of a live media production, using the same segments as the liveevent,event but freezing the manifest that describes the media available from the media server after the live event has finished. In other cases, on-demand media is constructed out of pre-recorded assets with no streaming necessarily involved during the production of the on-demand content.</t> <t>On-demand media generally is not subject to latency concerns, but other timing-related considerations can still be as important or even more important to the user experience than the same considerations with live events. These considerations include the startup time, the stability of the media stream's playback quality, and avoidance of stalls and other media artifacts during the playback under all but the most severe network conditions.</t> <t>In some applications, optimizations are available to on-demand mediathatbut are not always available to live events, such aspre-loadingpreloading the first segment for a startup time that does not have to wait for a network download to begin.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="sec-abr"> <name>Adaptive Encoding, Adaptive Delivery, and Measurement Collection</name> <t>This section describes one of the best-known ways to provide a good user experience over a given network path, but one thing to keep in mind is that application-level mechanisms cannot provide a better experience than the underlying network path can support.</t> <section anchor="abr-overview"> <name>Overview</name> <t>A simple model of media playback can be described as a media stream consumer, a buffer, and a transport mechanism that fills the buffer. The consumption rate is fairly static and is represented by the content bitrate. The size of the buffer is also commonly a fixed size. The buffer fill process needs to be at least fast enough to ensure that the buffer is neverempty,empty; however, it also can have significant complexity when things like personalization or advertising insertion workflows are introduced.</t> <t>The challenges in filling the buffer in a timely way fall into two broad categories:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Contentselection comprises all of the steps needed to determine which content variation to offer the client.</li> <li>Contentvariation (also sometimes called a “bitrate ladder”) is thenumberset of contentoptionsrenditions thatexistare available at any given selection point.</li> <li>Content selection comprises all of the steps a client uses to determine which content rendition to play.</li> </ul> <t>The mechanism used to select the bitrate is part of the content selection, and the content variationareis all of the different bitrate renditions.</t> <t>Adaptive bitrate streaming ("ABRstreaming",streaming" or simply "ABR") is a commonly used technique for dynamically adjusting thecompression level andmedia quality of a stream to match bandwidth availability. When this goal is achieved, the media server will tend to send enough media that the media player does not "stall", without sending so much media that the media player cannot acceptit without exhausting all available receive buffers.</t>it.</t> <t>ABR uses an application-level response strategy in which the streaming client attempts to detect the available bandwidth of the network path by first observing the successful application-layer downloadspeed, andspeed; then, given the available bandwidth, the client chooses a bitrate for each of the video, audio,subtitlessubtitles, and metadata (among a limited number of available options for each type of media) that fits within that bandwidth, typically adjusting as changes in available bandwidth occur in the network or changes in capabilities occur during the playback (such as available memory, CPU, display size, etc.).</t> </section> <section anchor="adapt-encode"> <name>Adaptive Encoding</name> <t>Media servers can provide media streams at various bitrates because the media has been encoded at various bitrates. This is a so-called "ladder" of bitrates that can be offered to media players as part of themanifest,manifest so that the media player can select among the available bitrate choices.</t> <t>The media server may also choose to alter which bitrates are made available to players by adding or removing bitrate options from the ladder delivered to the player in subsequent manifests built and sent to the player. This way, both the player, through its selection of bitrate to request from the manifest, and the server, through its construction of the bitrates offered in the manifest, are able to affect network utilization.</t> </section> <section anchor="adapt-deliver"> <name>Adaptive Segmented Delivery</name> <t>AdaptiveSegmented Deliverysegmented delivery attempts to optimize its own use of the path between a media server and a media client. ABR playback is commonly implemented by streaming clients using HLS <xref target="RFC8216"/> or DASH <xref target="MPEG-DASH"/> to perform a reliable segmented delivery of media over HTTP. Different implementations use different strategies <xref target="ABRSurvey"/>, often relying on proprietary algorithms (called rate adaptation or bitrate selection algorithms) to perform available bandwidth estimation/prediction and the bitrate selection.</t> <t>Many systems will do an initial probe or a very simple throughput speed test at the start of media playback. This is done to get a rough sense of the highest (total) media bitrate that the network between the server and player will likely be able to provide under initial network conditions. After the initial testing, clients tend to rely upon passive network observations and will make use ofplayer side statisticsplayer-side statistics, such as buffer fillratesrates, to monitor and respond to changing network conditions.</t> <t>The choice of bitrate occurs within the context of optimizing for one or more metrics monitored by the client, such as the highest achievable audiovisual quality or the lowest chances for a rebuffering event (playback stall).</t> </section> <section anchor="advertising"> <name>Advertising</name> <t>The inclusion of advertising alongside or interspersed with streaming media content is common in today's media landscape.</t> <t>Some commonly used forms of advertising can introduce potential user experience issues for a media stream. This section provides a very brief overview of a complex and rapidly evolving space.</t> <t>The same techniques used to allow a media player to switch between renditions of different bitrates at segmentor chunkboundaries can also be used to enable the dynamic insertion of advertisements (hereafter referred to as "ads"), but this does not mean that the insertion of ads has no effect on the user's quality of experience.</t> <t>Ads may be insertedeitherwith either Client-side Ad Insertion (CSAI) or Server-side Ad Insertion (SSAI).-In CSAI, the ABR manifest will generally include links to an external ad server for some segments of the media stream, while inSSAISSAI, the server will remain the same duringadvertisements,ads but will include media segments that contain the advertising.-In SSAI, the media segments may or may not be sourced from an external ad server like with CSAI.</t> <t>In general, the more targeted the ad request is, the more requests the ad service needs to be able to handle concurrently. If connectivity is poor to the ad service, this can cause rebuffering even if the underlying media assets (both content and ads) can be accessed quickly. The less targeted the ad request is, the more likely that ad requests can beconsolidated,consolidated and that ads can be cached similarly to the media content.</t> <t>In some cases, especially with SSAI, advertising space in a stream is reserved for a specific advertiser and can be integrated with the video so that the segments share the same encodingpropertiesproperties, such as bitrate, dynamicrangerange, and resolution. However, in many cases, ad servers integrate with a Supply Side Platform (SSP) that offers advertising space in real-time auctions via an Ad Exchange, with bids for the advertising space coming from Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) that collect money from advertisers for delivering theadvertisements.ads. Most such Ad Exchanges use application-level protocol specifications published by the Interactive Advertising Bureau <xref target="IAB-ADS"/>, an industry trade organization.</t> <t>This ecosystem balances several competingobjectivesobjectives, and integrating with it naively can produce surprising user experience results. For example, ad server provisioning and/or the bitrate of the ad segments might be different from that of the main content, and either of these differences can result in playback stalls. For another example, since the inserted ads are often produced independently, they might have a different base volume level than the main content, which can make for a jarring user experience.</t> <t>Another major source of competing objectives comes from user privacy considerations vs. the advertiser's incentives to target ads to user segments based on behavioral data. Multiple studies, for example, <xref target="BEHAVE"/> and <xref target="BEHAVE2"/>, have reported large improvements in ad effectiveness when using behaviorally targeted ads, relative to untargeted ads. This provides a strong incentive for advertisers to gain access to the data necessary to perform behavioral targeting, leading some to engage in what is indistinguishable from a pervasive monitoring attack(<xref target="RFC7258"/>)<xref target="RFC7258"/> based on user tracking in order to collect the relevantdata,data. A more complete review of issues in this space is available in <xref target="BALANCING"/>.</t> <t>On top of these competing objectives, this market historically has had incidents of misreporting of ad delivery to end users for financial gain <xref target="ADFRAUD"/>. As a mitigation for concerns driven by those incidents, some SSPs have required the use of specific media players that include features like reporting of addelivery,delivery or providing additional user information that can be used for tracking.</t> <t>In general, this is a rapidly developing space with many considerations, and media streaming operators engaged in advertising may need to research these and other concerns to find solutions that meet their user experience, user privacy, and financial goals. For further reading on mitigations, <xref target="BAP"/> has published some standards and best practices based on user experience research.</t> </section> <section anchor="bitrate-detection-challenges"> <name>Bitrate Detection Challenges</name> <t>This kind of bandwidth-measurement system can experiencetrouble in several waysvarious troubles that are affected by networking and transport protocol issues. Because adaptive application-level response strategies are often using rates as observed by the application layer, there are sometimes inscrutable transport-level protocol behaviors that can produce surprising measurement values when the application-level feedback loop is interacting with a transport-level feedback loop.</t> <t>A few specific examples of surprising phenomena that affect bitrate detection measurements are described in the following subsections. As these examples will demonstrate, it is common to encounter cases that can deliver application-level measurements that are too low, too high, and (possibly) correct butvaryingthat vary more quickly than a lab-tested selection algorithm might expect.</t> <t>These effects and others that cause transport behavior to diverge from lab modeling can sometimes have a significant impact on bitrate selection and on user QoE, especially where players use naive measurement strategies and selection algorithms thatdon'tdo not account for the likelihood of bandwidth measurements that diverge from the true path capacity.</t> <section anchor="idle-time"> <name>Idle Time between Segments</name> <t>When the bitrate selection is chosen substantially below the available capacity of the network path, the response to a segment request will typically complete in much less absolute time than the duration of the requested segment, leaving significant idle time between segment downloads. This can have a few surprising consequences:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>TCPslow-startslow-start, when restarting afteridleidle, requires multiple RTTs to re-establish a throughput at the network's available capacity. When the active transmission time for segments is substantially shorter than the time between segments, leaving an idle gap between segments that triggers a restart of TCP slow-start, the estimate of the successful download speed coming from the application-visible receive rate on the socket can thus end up much lower than the actual available network capacity. This, in turn, can prevent a shift to the most appropriate bitrate. <xref target="RFC7661"/> provides some mitigations for this effect at the TCP transport layer for senders who anticipate a high incidence of this problem.</li> <li>Mobile flow-bandwidth spectrum and timing mapping can be impacted by idle time in some networks. The carrier capacity assigned to a physical or virtual link can vary with activity. Depending on the idle time characteristics, this can result in a lower available bitrate than would be achievable with a steadier transmission in the same network.</li> </ul> <t>Some receiver-side ABRalgorithmsalgorithms, such as <xreftarget="ELASTIC"/>target="ELASTIC"/>, are designed to try to avoid this effect.</t> <t>Another way to mitigate this effect is by the help of two simultaneous TCP connections, as explained in <xref target="MMSys11"/> for Microsoft Smooth Streaming. In some cases, the system-level TCP slow-start restart can also be disabled, for example, as described in <xref target="OReilly-HPBN"/>.</t> </section> <section anchor="noisy-measurements"> <name>Noisy Measurements</name> <t>In addition to smoothing over an appropriate time scale to handle network jitter (see <xref target="RFC5481"/>), ABR systems relying on measurements at the application layer also have to account for noise from the in-order data transmission at the transport layer.</t> <t>For instance, in the event of a lost packet on a TCP connection with SACK support (a common case for segmented delivery in practice), loss of a packet can provide a confusing bandwidth signal to the receiving application. Because of the sliding window in TCP, many packets may be accepted by the receiver without being available to the application until the missing packet arrives. Upon the arrival of the one missing packet after retransmit, the receiver will suddenly get access to a lot of data at the same time.</t> <t>To a receiver measuring bytes received per unit time at the application layer and interpreting it as an estimate of the available network bandwidth, this appears as a high jitter in the goodput measurement, presenting as a stall followed by a sudden leap that can far exceed the actual capacity of the transport path from the server when the hole in the received data is filled by a later retransmission.</t> </section> <section anchor="wide-and-rapid-variation-in-path-capacity"> <name>Wide and Rapid Variation in Path Capacity</name> <t>As many end devices have moved to wireless connections for the final hop (such as Wi-Fi, 5G, LTE, etc.), new problems in bandwidth detection have emerged.</t> <t>In most real-world operating environments, wireless links can often experience sudden changes in capacity as the end user device moves from place to place or encounters new sources of interference. Microwave ovens, for example, can cause a throughput degradation in Wi-Fi of more than a factor of 2 while active <xref target="Micro"/>.</t> <t>These swings in actual transport capacity can result in user experience issues when interacting with ABR algorithms thataren'tare not tuned to handle the capacity variation gracefully.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="measure-coll"> <name>Measurement Collection</name> <t>Media players use measurements to guide their segment-by-segment adaptive streamingrequests,requests but may also provide measurements to streaming media providers.</t> <t>In turn, media providers may base analytics on these measurements to guidedecisionsdecisions, such as whether adaptive encoding bitrates in use are the best ones to provide to mediaplayers,players or whether current media content caching is providing the best experience for viewers.</t> <t>To that effect, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), who owns the Web Application Video Ecosystem (WAVE) project, has published two important specifications.</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>CTA-2066: Streaming Quality of Experience Events, Properties and Metrics</li> </ul> <t><xref target="CTA-2066"/> specifies a set of media player events, properties, QoEmetricsmetrics, and associated terminology for representing streaming media QoE across systems, mediaplayersplayers, and analytics vendors. While all these events, properties,metricsmetrics, and associated terminology are used across a number of proprietary analytics and measurement solutions, they were used in slightly (or vastly) different ways that led to interoperability issues. CTA-2066 attempts to address this issue by definingacommon terminologyas well asand how each metric should be computed for consistent reporting.</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>CTA-5004: Web Application Video Ecosystem - Common Media Client Data (CMCD)</li> </ul> <t>Many assume that the CDNs have a holistic view of the health and performance of the streaming clients. However, this is not the case. The CDNs produce millions of log lines per second across hundreds of thousands ofclientsclients, and they have no concept of a "session" as a client would have, so CDNs are decoupled from the metrics the clients generate and report. A CDN cannot tell which request belongs to which playback session, the duration of any media object, the bitrate, or whether any of the clients have stalled and are rebuffering or are about to stall and will rebuffer. The consequence of this decoupling is that a CDN cannot prioritize delivery for when the client needs it most, prefetch content, or trigger alerts when the network itself may be underperforming. One approach to couple the CDN to the playback sessions is for the clients to communicate standardized media-relevant information to the CDNs while they are fetching data. <xref target="CTA-5004"/> was developed exactly for this purpose.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="sec-trans"> <name>Transport Protocol Behaviors and Their Implications for Media Transport Protocols</name> <t>Within this document, the term"Media Transport Protocol""media transport protocol" is used to describe any protocol that carries media metadata and media segments in its payload, and the term"Transport Protocol""transport protocol" describes any protocol that carries aMedia Transport Protocol,media transport protocol, or anotherTransport Protocol,transport protocol, in its payload. This is easier to understand if the reader assumes a protocol stack that looks something like this:</t> <artwork><![CDATA[ Media Segments --------------------------- Media Format --------------------------- Media Transport Protocol --------------------------- Transport Protocol(s) ]]></artwork> <t>where</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>"MediaSegments"segments" would be something like the output of acodec,codec or some other source of media segments, such as closed-captioning,</li> <li>"MediaFormat"format" would be something like an RTP payload format <xref target="RFC2736"/> or anISOBMFFISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) profile <xreftarget="ISOBMFF"/> profile,</li>target="ISOBMFF"/>,</li> <li>"MediaTransport Protocol"transport protocol" would be something like RTP <xref target="RFC3550"/> or DASH <xref target="MPEG-DASH"/>, and</li> <li>"TransportProtocol"protocol" would be a protocol that provides appropriate transport services, as described inSection 5 of<xreftarget="RFC8095"/>.</li>target="RFC8095" sectionFormat="of" section="5"/>.</li> </ul> <t>Not all possible streaming media applications follow this model, but for the ones that do, it seems useful to distinguish between the protocol layer that is aware it is transporting mediasegments,segments and underlying protocol layers that are not aware.</t> <t>As described in the abstract of <xreftarget="RFC8095"/> Abstract,target="RFC8095"/>, the IETF has standardized a number of protocols that provide transport services. Although these protocols, taken in total, provide a wide variety of transport services, <xref target="sec-trans"/> will distinguish between two extremes:</t> <ul spacing="normal"><li>Transport<li>transport protocols used to provide reliable, in-order media delivery to an endpoint, typically providing flow control and congestion control (<xreftarget="reliable-behavior"/>)target="reliable-behavior"/>), and</li><li>Transport<li>transport protocols used to provide unreliable, unordered media delivery to an endpoint, without flow control or congestion control (<xref target="unreliable-behavior"/>).</li> </ul> <t>Because newly standardized transportprotocolsprotocols, such as QUIC <xreftarget="RFC9000"/>target="RFC9000"/>, that are typically implemented inuserspaceuser space can evolve their transport behavior more rapidly thancurrently-usedcurrently used transport protocols that are typically implemented in operating system kernel space, this document includes a description of how the path characteristics that streaming media providers may see are likely toevolve inevolve; see <xref target="quic-behavior"/>.</t> <t>It is worth noting explicitly that theTransport Protocoltransport protocol layer might include more than one protocol. For example, a specificMedia Transport Protocolmedia transport protocol might run over HTTP, or over WebTransport, which in turn runs over HTTP.</t> <t>It is worth noting explicitly that more complex network protocol stacks are certainly possible--- for instance, when packets with this protocol stack are carried in a tunnel or in a VPN, the entire packet would likely appear in the payload of other protocols. If these environments are present, streaming media operators may need to analyze their effects on applications as well.</t> <section anchor="reliable-behavior"> <name>Media TransportOverover Reliable Transport Protocols</name> <t>The HLS <xref target="RFC8216"/> and DASH <xref target="MPEG-DASH"/> media transport protocols are typically carried over HTTP, and HTTP has used TCP as its only standardized transport protocol until HTTP/3 <xref target="RFC9114"/>. These media transport protocols use ABR response strategies as described in <xref target="sec-abr"/> to respond to changing path characteristics, and underlying transport protocols are also attempting to respond to changing path characteristics.</t> <t>The past success of the largely TCP-based Internet is evidence that the various flow control and congestion control mechanisms that TCP has used to achieve equilibrium quickly, at a point where TCP senders do not interfere with other TCP senders for sustained periods of time(<xref target="RFC5681"/>),<xref target="RFC5681"/>, have been largely successful. The Internet has continued to work even when the specific TCP mechanisms used to reach equilibrium changed over time(<xref target="RFC7414"/>).<xref target="RFC7414"/>. Because TCP provided a common tool to avoid contention, even when significant TCP-based applications like FTP were largely replaced by other significant TCP-based applications like HTTP, the transport behavior remained safe for the Internet.</t> <t>Modern TCP implementations(<xref target="I-D.ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis"/>)<xref target="RFC9293"/> continue to probe for availablebandwidth,bandwidth and "back off" when a network path issaturated,saturated but may also work to avoid growing queues along network paths, which can prevent older TCP senders fromdetectingquickly detecting when a network path is becoming saturated. Congestion controlmechanismsmechanisms, such asCOPACopa <xref target="COPA18"/> andBBRBottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) <xreftarget="I-D.cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control"/>target="I-D.cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control"/>, make these decisions based on measured path delays, assuming that if the measured path delay is increasing, the sender is injecting packets onto the network path faster than the network can forward them (or the receiver can acceptthem)them), so the sender should adjust its sending rate accordingly.</t> <t>Although common TCP behavior has changed significantly since the days of <xref target="Jacobson-Karels"/> and <xref target="RFC2001"/>, even with adding new congestion controllers such as CUBIC <xref target="RFC8312"/>, the common practice of implementing TCP as part of an operating system kernel has acted to limit how quickly TCP behavior can change. Even with the widespread use of automated operating system update installation on many end-user systems, streaming media providers could have a reasonable expectation that they could understand TCP transport protocolbehaviors,behaviors and that those behaviors would remain relatively stable in the short term.</t> </section> <section anchor="unreliable-behavior"> <name>Media TransportOverover Unreliable Transport Protocols</name> <t>Because UDP does not provide any feedback mechanism to senders to help limit impacts on other users, UDP-based application-level protocols have been responsible for the decisions that TCP-based applications have delegated toTCP -TCP, i.e., what to send, how much to send, and when to send it. Because UDP itself has no transport-layer feedback mechanisms, UDP-based applications that send and receive substantial amounts of information are expected to provide their own feedbackmechanisms,mechanisms and to respond to the feedback the application receives. This expectation is most recently codified as a Best Current Practice <xref target="RFC8085"/>.</t> <t>In contrast to adaptive segmented delivery over a reliable transport as described in <xref target="adapt-deliver"/>, some applications deliver streaming media segments using an unreliabletransport,transport and rely on a variety of approaches, including:</t> <ul spacing="normal"><li>raw<li>media encapsulated in a raw MPEG Transport Stream("MPEG-TS")-formatted media(MPEG-TS) <xref target="MPEG-TS"/> over UDP, which makes no attempt to account for reordering or loss in the transport,</li> <li>RTP <xref target="RFC3550"/>, which can notice packet loss and repair some limited reordering,</li><li>SCTP<li>the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) <xref target="RFC9260"/>, which can use partial reliability <xref target="RFC3758"/> to recover from someloss,loss but can abandon recovery to limit head-of-line blocking, and</li><li>SRT<li>the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) <xref target="SRT"/>, which can use forward error correction and time-bound retransmission to recover from loss within certainlimits,limits but can abandon recovery to limit head-of-line blocking.</li> </ul> <t>Under congestion and loss, approaches like the above generally experience transient media artifacts more often and delay of playback effects less often, as compared with reliable segment transport.OftenOften, one of the key goals of using a UDP-based transport that allows some unreliability is to reduce latency and better support applications likevideoconferencing,videoconferencing orforother live-action video with interactive components, such as some sporting events.</t> <t>Congestion avoidance strategies for deployments using unreliable transport protocols vary widely in practice, ranging from being entirely unresponsive tocongestion, toresponding by usingfeedbackstrategies, including:</t> <ul> <li>feedback signaling to change encoder settings (as in <xreftarget="RFC5762"/>), to using fewertarget="RFC5762"/>),</li> <li>fewer enhancement layers (as in <xref target="RFC6190"/>),to using proprietaryand </li> <li>proprietary methods to detect QoE issues and turn off video to allow less bandwidth-intensivemediamedia, such asaudioaudio, to bedelivered.</t>delivered.</li> </ul> <t>RTP relies on RTCPSendersender andReceiver Reportsreceiver reports <xref target="RFC3550"/> as its own feedbackmechanism,mechanism and even includesCircuit Breakerscircuit breakers forUnicastunicast RTPSessionssessions <xref target="RFC8083"/> for situations when normal RTP congestion control has not been able to react sufficiently to RTP flows sending at rates that result in sustained packet loss.</t> <t>The notion of"Circuit Breakers""circuit breakers" has also been applied to other UDP applications in <xref target="RFC8084"/>, such as tunneling packets over UDP that are potentially notcongestion-controlledcongestion controlled (for example,"Encapsulating"encapsulating MPLS inUDP,"UDP", as described in <xref target="RFC7510"/>). If streaming media segments are carried in tunnels encapsulated in UDP, these media streams may encounter "tripped circuitbreakers,"breakers", with resulting user-visible impacts.</t> </section> <section anchor="quic-behavior"> <name>QUIC and Changing Transport Protocol Behavior</name> <t>The QUIC protocol, developed from a proprietary protocol into an IETFstandards-trackStandards Track protocol <xref target="RFC9000"/>,turns many ofbehaves differently than thestatements madetransport protocols characterized in Sections <xreftarget="reliable-behavior"/>target="reliable-behavior" format="counter"/> and <xreftarget="unreliable-behavior"/> on their heads.</t>target="unreliable-behavior" format="counter"/>.</t> <t>Although QUIC provides an alternative to the TCP and UDP transport protocols, QUIC is itself encapsulated in UDP. As noted elsewhere in <xref target="gen-encrypt"/>, the QUIC protocol encrypts almost all of its transportparameters,parameters and all of its payload, so any intermediaries that network operators may be using to troubleshoot HTTP streaming media performance issues, perform analytics, or even intercept exchanges in current applications will not work for QUIC-based applications without making changes to their networks. <xref target="stream-encrypt-media"/> describes the implications of media encryption in more detail.</t> <t>While QUIC is designed as a general-purpose transportprotocol,protocol and can carry different application-layer protocols, the current standardized mapping is for HTTP/3 <xref target="RFC9114"/>, which describes how QUIC transport services are used for HTTP. The convention is for HTTP/3 to run over UDP port 443 <xreftarget="Port443"/>target="Port443"/>, but this is not a strict requirement.</t> <t>When HTTP/3 is encapsulated in QUIC, which is then encapsulated in UDP, streaming operators (and network operators) might see UDP traffic patterns that are similar to HTTP(S) over TCP. UDP ports may be blocked for any port numbers that are not commonly used, such as UDP 53 for DNS. Even when UDP ports are not blocked and QUIC packets can flow, streaming operators (and network operators) may severely rate-limit this traffic because they do not expect to see legitimate high-bandwidthtraffictraffic, such as streaming media over the UDP ports that HTTP/3 is using.</t> <t>As noted in <xref target="noisy-measurements"/>, because TCP provides a reliable, in-order delivery service for applications, any packet loss for a TCP connection causes head-of-lineblocking,blocking so that no TCP segments arriving after a packet is lost will be delivered to the receiving application until retransmission of the lost packet has been received, allowing in-order delivery to the application to continue. As described in <xref target="RFC9000"/>, QUIC connections can carry multiple streams, and when packet losses do occur, only the streams carried in the lost packet are delayed.</t> <t>A QUIC extension currently being specified(<xref target="RFC9221"/>)<xref target="RFC9221"/> adds the capability for "unreliable" delivery, similar to the service provided by UDP, but these datagrams are still subject to the QUIC connection's congestion controller, providing some transport-level congestion avoidance measures, which UDP does not.</t> <t>As noted in <xref target="reliable-behavior"/>, there is an increasing interest in congestion control algorithms that respond to delaymeasurements,measurements instead of responding to packet loss. These algorithms may deliver an improved user experience, but in some cases, they have not responded to sustained packet loss, which exhausts available buffers along the end-to-end path that may affect other users sharing that path. The QUIC protocol provides a set of congestion control hooks that can be used for algorithm agility, and <xref target="RFC9002"/> defines a basic congestion control algorithm that is roughly similar to TCP NewReno <xref target="RFC6582"/>. However, QUIC senders can and do unilaterally choose to use differentalgorithmsalgorithms, such as loss-based CUBIC <xref target="RFC8312"/>, delay-basedCOPACopa or BBR, or even something completely different.</t> <t>The Internet community does have experience with deploying new congestion controllers without causing congestion collapse on the Internet. As noted in <xref target="RFC8312"/>, both the CUBIC congestion controller and its predecessor BIC have significantly different behavior from Reno-style congestioncontrollerscontrollers, such as TCP NewReno <xreftarget="RFC6582"/>,target="RFC6582"/>; both were added to the Linux kernel to allow experimentation and analysis,andboth were then selected as the default TCP congestion controllers in Linux, and both were deployed globally.</t> <t>The point mentioned in <xref target="reliable-behavior"/> about TCP congestion controllers being implemented in operating system kernels is different with QUIC. Although QUIC can be implemented in operating system kernels, one of the design goals when this work was chartered was "QUIC is expected to support rapid, distributed development and testing offeatures," andfeatures"; to meet this expectation, many implementers have chosen to implement QUIC in user space, outside the operating system kernel, and to even distribute QUIC libraries with their own applications. It is worth noting that streaming operators using HTTP/3, carried over QUIC, can expect more frequent deployment of new congestion controller behavior than has been the case with HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, carried over TCP.</t> <t>It is worth considering that if TCP-based HTTP traffic and UDP-based HTTP/3 traffic are allowed to enter operator networks on roughly equal terms, questions of fairness and contention will be heavily dependent on interactions between the congestion controllers in use for TCP-based HTTP traffic and UDP-based HTTP/3 traffic.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="stream-encrypt-media"> <name>Streaming Encrypted Media</name> <t>"Encrypted Media" has at least three meanings:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li>Media encrypted at the application layer, typically using some sort of Digital Rights Management (DRM) system or other object encryption/securitymechanism,mechanism and typically remaining encrypted atrest,rest when senders and receivers store it.</li> <li>Media encrypted by the sender at the transportlayer,layer and remaining encrypted until it reaches the ultimate media consumer (in this document, it is referred to as end-to-end media encryption).</li> <li>Media encrypted by the sender at the transportlayer,layer and remaining encrypted until it reaches some intermediary that is <em>not</em> the ultimate mediaconsumer,consumer but has credentials allowing decryption of the media content. This intermediary may examine and even transform the media content in some way, before forwarding re-encrypted media content (in thisdocumentdocument, it is referred to as hop-by-hop media encryption).</li> </ul> <t>This document focuses on media encrypted at the transport layer, whether encryption is performedhop-by-hophop by hop orend-to-end.end to end. Because media encrypted at the application layer will only be processed by application-level entities, this encryption does not have transport-layer implications. Of course, both hop-by-hop and end-to-end encrypted transport may carry media that is, in addition, encrypted at the application layer.</t> <t>Each of these encryption strategies is intended to achieve a different goal. For instance, application-level encryption may be used for business purposes, such as avoiding piracy or enforcing geographic restrictions on playback, while transport-layer encryption may be used to prevent media stream manipulation or to protect manifests.</t> <t>This document does not take a position on whether those goals are"valid" (whatever that might mean).</t>valid.</t> <t>Both end-to-end and hop-by-hop media encryption have specific implications for streaming operators. These are described in Sections <xreftarget="hop-by-hop-encrypt"/>target="hop-by-hop-encrypt" format="counter"/> and <xreftarget="e2em-encrypt"/>.</t>target="e2em-encrypt" format="counter"/>.</t> <section anchor="gen-encrypt"> <name>General Considerations for Streaming Media Encryption</name> <t>The use of strong encryption does provide confidentiality for encrypted streaming media, from the sender to either the ultimate mediaconsumer,consumer or to an intermediary that possesses credentials allowing decryption. This does preventDeep Packet Inspectiondeep packet inspection (DPI) by any on-path intermediary that does not possess credentials allowing decryption. However, even encrypted content streams may be vulnerable to traffic analysis. An on-path observer that can identify that encrypted traffic contains a mediastream,stream could "fingerprint" this encrypted mediasteam,stream and then compare it against "fingerprints" of known content. The protection provided by strong encryption can be further lessened if a streaming media operator is repeatedly encrypting the same content. "Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real-Time"(<xref target="CODASPY17"/>)<xref target="CODASPY17"/> is an example of what is possible when identifying HTTPS-protected videos over TCP transport, based either on the length of entire resources beingtransferred,transferred or on characteristic packet patterns at the beginning of a resource being transferred. If traffic analysis is successful at identifying encrypted content and associating it with specific users, this tells an on-path observer what resource is being streamed, and by who, almost as certainly as examining decrypted traffic.</t> <t>Because HTTPS has historically layered HTTP on top of TLS, which is in turn layered on top of TCP, intermediaries have historically had access to unencrypted TCP-level transport information, such as retransmissions, and some carriers exploited this information in attempts to improve transport-layer performance <xref target="RFC3135"/>. The most recent standardized version of HTTPS, HTTP/3 <xref target="RFC9114"/>, uses the QUIC protocol <xref target="RFC9000"/> as its transport layer. QUIC relies on the TLS 1.3 initial handshake <xref target="RFC8446"/> only for key exchange <xreftarget="RFC9001"/>,target="RFC9001"/> and encrypts almost all transport parametersitselfitself, except for a few invariant header fields. In the QUIC short header, the only transport-level parameterwhichthat is sent "in the clear" is the Destination Connection ID <xref target="RFC8999"/>, and even in the QUIC long header, the only transport-level parameters sent "in the clear" are theVersion,version, Destination Connection ID, and Source Connection ID. For these reasons, HTTP/3 is significantly more "opaque" than HTTPS with HTTP/1 or HTTP/2.</t> <t><xreftarget="I-D.ietf-quic-manageability"/>target="RFC9312"/> discusses the manageability of the QUIC transport protocol that is used to encapsulate HTTP/3, focusing on the implications of QUIC's design and wire image on network operations involving QUIC traffic. It discusses what network operators can consider in some detail.</t> <t>More broadly,RFC 9065 <xref target="RFC9065"/>,"Considerations around Transport Header Confidentiality, Network Operations, and the Evolution of Internet Transport Protocols" <xref target="RFC9065"/> describes the impact of increased encryption of transport headers in general terms.</t> <t>It is also worth noting that considerations forheavily-encryptedheavily encrypted transport protocols also come into play when streaming media is carried over IP-level VPNs and tunnels, with the additional consideration that an intermediary that does not possess credentials allowing decryption will not have visibility to the source and destination IP addresses of the packets being carried inside the tunnel.</t> </section> <section anchor="hop-by-hop-encrypt"> <name>Considerations for Hop-by-Hop Media Encryption</name> <t>Hop-by-hop media encryption offers the benefits described in <xref target="gen-encrypt"/> between the streaming media operator and authorized intermediaries, among authorized intermediaries, and between authorized intermediaries and the ultimate mediaconsumer, butconsumer; however, it does not provide these benefitsend-to-end.end to end. The streaming media operator and ultimate media consumer must trust the authorized intermediaries, and if these intermediaries cannot be trusted, the benefits of encryption are lost.</t> <t>Although the IETF has put considerable emphasis on end-to-end streaming media encryption, there are still important use cases that require the insertion of intermediaries.</t> <t>There are a variety of ways to involve intermediaries, and some are much more intrusive than others.</t> <t>From a streaming media operator's perspective, a number of considerations are in play. The first question is likely whether the streaming media operator intends that intermediaries are explicitly addressed fromendpoints,endpoints or whether the streaming media operator is willing to allow intermediaries to "intercept" streaming content transparently, with no awareness or permission from either endpoint.</t> <t>If a streaming media operator does not actively work to avoid interception by on-path intermediaries, the effect will be indistinguishable from "impersonationattacks,"attacks", and endpoints cannot be assured of any level ofconfidentiality,confidentiality and cannot trust that the content received came from the expected sender.</t> <t>Assuming that a streaming media operator does intend to allow intermediaries to participate in content streaming and does intend to provide some level of privacy for endpoints, there are a number of possible tools, either already available or still being specified. Theseinclude</t> <ulinclude the following:</t> <dl newline="true" spacing="normal"><li>Server And<dt>Server and NetworkassistedAssisted DASH <xreftarget="MPEG-DASH-SAND"/> - thistarget="MPEG-DASH-SAND"/>:</dt> <dd>This specification introduces explicit messaging between DASH clients and DASH-aware network elements or among various DASH-aware networkelements,elements for the purpose of improving the efficiency of streaming sessions by providing information about real-time operational characteristics of networks, servers, proxies, caches, CDNs, as well as a DASH client's performance andstatus.</li> <li>"Doublestatus.</dd> <dt>"Double Encryption Procedures for the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)" <xreftarget="RFC8723"/> - thistarget="RFC8723"/>:</dt> <dd>This specification provides a cryptographic transform for theSecure Real-time Transport ProtocolSRTP that provides both hop-by-hop and end-to-end securityguarantees.</li> <li>Secure Mediaguarantees.</dd> <dt>Secure Frames <xreftarget="SFRAME"/> - <xreftarget="SFRAME"/>:</dt> <dd><xref target="RFC8723"/> is closely tied to SRTP, and this close association impeded widespread deployment, because it could not be used for the most common media content delivery mechanisms. A more recent proposal, SecureMediaFrames <xref target="SFRAME"/>, also provides both hop-by-hop and end-to-end securityguarantees,guarantees but can be used with other media transport protocols beyondSRTP.</li> </ul>SRTP.</dd> </dl> <t>A streaming media operator's choice of whether to involve intermediaries requires careful consideration. As an example, when ABR manifests were commonly sent unencrypted, some access network operators would modify manifests during peak hours by removing high-bitrate renditions to prevent players from choosing those renditions, thus reducing the overall bandwidth consumed for delivering these media streams and therebyimprovingreducing the network load and improving the average user experience for their customers. Now that ubiquitous encryption typically prevents this kind of modification, a streaming media operator who used intermediaries in the past, and who now wishes to maintain the same level of network health and user experience, must choose between adding intermediaries who are authorized to change the manifests or adding some other form of complexity to their service.</t> <t>Some resources that might inform other similar considerations are further discussed in <xref target="RFC8824"/> (for WebRTC) and <xreftarget="I-D.ietf-quic-manageability"/>target="RFC9312"/> (for HTTP/3 and QUIC).</t> </section> <section anchor="e2em-encrypt"> <name>Considerations for End-to-End Media Encryption</name> <t>End-to-end media encryption offers the benefits described in <xref target="gen-encrypt"/> from the streaming media operator to the ultimate media consumer.</t> <t>End-to-end media encryption has become much more widespread in the years since the IETF issued "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" <xref target="RFC7258"/> as a Best Current Practice, describing pervasive monitoring as a much greater threat than previously appreciated. After the Snowden disclosures, many content providers made the decision to use HTTPS protection--- HTTP over TLS--- for most or all content being delivered as a routine practice, rather than in exceptional cases for content that was considered sensitive.</t> <t>However, as noted in <xref target="RFC7258"/>, there is no way to prevent pervasive monitoring by anattacker,attacker while allowing monitoring by a more benign entity who only wants to use DPI to examine HTTP requests and responses to provide a better user experience. If a modern encrypted transport protocol is used for end-to-end media encryption, unauthorized on-path intermediaries are unable to examine transport and application protocol behavior. As described in <xref target="hop-by-hop-encrypt"/>, only an intermediary explicitly authorized by the streaming media operator who is to examine packet payloads, rather than intercepting packets and examining them without authorization, can continue these practices.</t> <t><xref target="RFC7258"/>saidstates that"The"[t]he IETF will strive to produce specifications that mitigate pervasive monitoringattacks,"attacks", so streaming operators should expect the IETF's direction toward preventing unauthorized monitoring of IETF protocols to continue for the foreseeable future.</t> </section> </section> <section anchor="further"><name>Further Reading and References</name><name>Additional Resources for Streaming Media</name> <t>TheMOPSMedia Operations (MOPS) community maintains a list of references andresourcesresources; for furtherreading at this location:</t> <ul spacing="normal"> <li> <eref target="https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons/blob/main/living-doc-mops-streaming-opcons.md">https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons/blob/main/living-doc-mops-streaming-opcons.md</eref></li> </ul> <t>Editor's note: The URL above might or might not be changed during IESG Evaluation. See <eref target="https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons/issues/114">https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons/issues/114</eref> for updates.</t>reading, see <xref target="MOPS-RESOURCES"/>.</t> </section> <section anchor="iana-considerations"> <name>IANA Considerations</name> <t>This documentrequireshas noactions from IANA.</t>IANA actions.</t> </section> <section anchor="security-considerations"> <name>Security Considerations</name> <t>Security is an important matter for streaming mediaapplicationsapplications, and the topic of media encryption was explained in <xref target="stream-encrypt-media"/>. This document itself introduces no new security issues.</t> </section><section anchor="acknowledgments"> <name>Acknowledgments</name> <t>Thanks to Alexandre Gouaillard, Aaron Falk, Chris Lemmons, Dave Oran, Eric Vyncke, Glenn Deen, Kyle Rose, Leslie Daigle, Linda Dunbar, Lucas Pardue, Mark Nottingham, Matt Stock, Mike English, Renan Krishna, Roni Even, Sanjay Mishra, Kiran Makhjani, Chris Lemmons, Tommy Pauly, Will Law, Michael Scharf, Eric Vyncke, Erik Kline, Roman Danyliw, Valery Smyslov, Robert Wilton, Lars Eggert, Zahed Sarker, Warren Kumari, John Scudder, Martin Duke, and Nancy Cam-Winget for very helpful suggestions, reviews and comments.</t> </section></middle> <back> <displayreference target="I-D.cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control" to="BBR-CONGESTION-CONTROL"/> <references> <name>Informative References</name> <reference anchor="CVNI"target="https://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/bwa2/public/calls/19_0624/nowell_bwa_01_190624.pdf">target=""> <front> <title>CiscoVNIVisual Networking Index: Forecastupdate</title>and Trends, 2017–2022</title> <author> <organization>Cisco</organization> </author> <date year="2018"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="MOPS-RESOURCES" target="https://wiki.ietf.org/group/mops/rfc9317-additional-resources"> <front> <title>rfc9317-additional-resources</title> <author> <organization/> </author> <dateyear="2019" month="June"/>year="2022" month="September"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="PCC" target="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8571288"> <front> <title>Emerging MPEG Standards for Point Cloud Compression</title> <authorinitials="S." surname="Schwarz"> <organization/> </author> <authorinitials=""surname="et al"> <organization/>surname="Schwarz, S. et al." fullname="S. Schwarz et al."> <organization></organization> </author> <date year="2019" month="March"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="IEEEname="DOI" value="10.1109/JETCAS.2018.2885981"/> <refcontent>IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits andSystems" value=""/>Systems</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="MPEGI" target="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9374648"> <front> <title>MPEG Immersive Video Coding Standard</title> <authorinitials="J. M." surname="Boyce"> <organization/> </author> <authorinitials=""surname="et al">surname="Boyce, J. M. et al."> <organization/> </author><date>n.d.</date></front> <seriesInfoname="Proceedingsname="DOI" value="10.1109/JPROC.2021.3062590"/> <refcontent>Proceedings of theIEEE" value=""/>IEEE, Vol. 109, Issue 9, pp. 1521-1536</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="MMSys11" target="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1943552.1943574"> <front> <title>An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptation algorithms in adaptive streaming over HTTP</title> <author initials="S." surname="Akhshabi"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="A. C." surname="Begen"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="C." surname="Dovrolis"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2011" month="February"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="ACM MMSys" value=""/>name="DOI" value="10.1145/1943552.1943574"/> <refcontent>ACM MMSys</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="MMSP20" target="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9287117"> <front> <title>Evaluating theperformancePerformance of Apple'slow-latencyLow-Latency HLS</title> <authorinitials="K." surname="Durak"> <organization/> </author> <authorinitials=""surname="et al">surname="Durak, K. et al."> <organization/> </author> <date year="2020" month="September"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="IEEE MMSP" value=""/>name="DOI" value="10.1109/MMSP48831.2020.9287117"/> <refcontent>IEEE MMSP</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="LL-DASH" target="https://dashif.org/docs/CR-Low-Latency-Live-r8.pdf"> <front> <title>Low-latency Modes for DASH</title><author initials="" surname="DASH-IF"> <organization/><author> <organization>DASH-IF</organization> </author> <date year="2020" month="March"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="CMAF-CTE"target="https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/white-paper/low-latency-streaming-cmaf-whitepaper.pdf">target=""> <front><title>Ultra-Low-Latency<title>Catching the Moment With LoL+ in Twitch-Like Low-Latency Live StreamingUsing Chunked-Encoded and Chunked Transferred CMAF</title>Platforms</title> <authorinitials="W." surname="Law" fullname="Will Law"> <organization>Akamai Technologies, Inc.</organization>initials="A." surname="Bentaleb" fullname="Abdelhak Bentaleb"></author> <author initials="M." surname="Akcay" fullname="Mehmet N. Akcay"> </author> <author initials="M." surname="Lim" fullname="May Lim"> </author> <author initials="A." surname="Begen" fullname="Ali C. Begen"> </author> <author initials="R." surname="Zimmermann" fullname="Roger Zimmermann"> </author> <dateyear="2018" month="October"/>year="2021" month="May"/> </front> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.1109/TMM.2021.3079288"/> <refcontent>IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Vol. 24, pp. 2300-2314</refcontent> </reference> <referenceanchor="ABRSurvey" target="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8424813">anchor="ABRSurvey"> <front> <title>ASurveysurvey onBitrate Adaptation Schemesbitrate adaptation schemes forStreaming Media Overstreaming media over HTTP</title> <author initials="A." surname="Bentaleb" fullname="Abdelhak Bentaleb"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="B." surname="Taani"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="A. C." surname="Begen"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="C." surname="Timmerer"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="R." surname="Zimmermann"> <organization/> </author><author initials="A." surname="Bentaleb et al" fullname="Abdelhak Bentaleb et al."> <organization/> </author> <date year="2019"/></front> <seriesInfoname="IEEEname="DOI" value="10.1109/COMST.2018.2862938"/> <refcontent>IEEE Communications Surveys &Tutorials" value=""/>Tutorials, vol. 21/1, pp. 562-585, Firstquarter 2019</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="Encodings" target="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streaming/hls_authoring_specification_for_apple_devices"> <front><title>HLS<title>HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Authoring Specification for Apple Devices</title><author initials="" surname="Apple, Inc"> <organization/><author> <organization>Apple Developer</organization> </author> <date year="2020" month="June"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="CTA-2066" target="https://shop.cta.tech/products/streaming-quality-of-experience-events-properties-and-metrics"> <front> <title>Streaming Quality of Experience Events, Properties and Metrics</title> <author> <organization>Consumer Technology Association</organization> </author> <date year="2020" month="March"/> </front> <refcontent>CTA-2066</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="CTA-5004" target="https://shop.cta.tech/products/web-application-video-ecosystem-common-media-client-data-cta-5004"> <front><title>Common<title>Web Application Video Ecosystem - Common Media ClientData (CMCD)</title> <author initials="" surname="CTA"> <organization/>Data</title> <author> <organization>Consumer Technology Association</organization> </author> <date year="2020" month="September"/> </front> <refcontent>CTA-5004</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="ELASTIC" target="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6691442"> <front> <title>ELASTIC: Aclient-side controllerClient-Side Controller fordynamic adaptive streamingDynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)</title> <author initials="L." surname="De Cicco"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="V." surname="Caldaralo"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="V." surname="Palmisano"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="S." surname="Mascolo"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2013" month="December"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="Packetname="DOI" value="10.1109/PV.2013.6691442"/> <refcontent>Packet VideoWorkshop" value=""/>Workshop</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="OReilly-HPBN" target="https://hpbn.co/building-blocks-of-tcp/"> <front> <title>High Performance Browser Networking(Chapter- Chapter 2: Building Blocks ofTCP)</title> <author>TCP</title> <author initials="I" surname="Grigorik" fullname="Ilya Grigorik"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2021" month="May"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="Jacobson-Karels" target="https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf"> <front> <title>Congestion Avoidance and Control</title> <author initials="V." surname="Jacobson"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="M." surname="Karels"> <organization/> </author> <date year="1988" month="November"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="COPA18" target="https://web.mit.edu/copa/"> <front> <title>Copa: Practical Delay-Based Congestion Control for the Internet</title> <author initials="V." surname="Arun"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="H." surname="Balakrishnan"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2018" month="April"/> </front><seriesInfo name="USENIX NSDI" value=""/><refcontent>USENIX NSDI</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="Port443"target="https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt">target="https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers"> <front> <title>Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry</title> <author><organization/><organization>IANA</organization> </author><date year="2021" month="April"/></front> </reference> <reference anchor="CODASPY17" target="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3029806.3029821"> <front> <title>Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real-Time</title> <author initials="A." surname="Reed"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="M." surname="Kranch"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2017" month="March"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="ACM CODASPY" value=""/>name="DOI" value="10.1145/3029806.3029821"/> <refcontent>ACM CODASPY</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="MPEG-DASH"target="https://www.iso.org/standard/79329.html">target="https://www.iso.org/standard/83314.html"> <front><title>ISO/IEC 23009-1:2019<title>Information technology - Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) - Part 1: Media presentation description and segment formats</title> <author><organization/><organization>ISO</organization> </author> <dateyear="2019" month="December"/>year="2022" month="August"/> </front> <seriesInfo name="ISO/IEC" value="23009-1:2022"/> </reference> <reference anchor="MPEG-DASH-SAND" target="https://www.iso.org/standard/69079.html"> <front><title>ISO/IEC 23009-5:2017<title>Information technology - Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) - Part 5: Server and network assisted DASH (SAND)</title> <author><organization/><organization>ISO</organization> </author> <date year="2017" month="February"/> </front> <seriesInfo name="ISO/IEC" value="23009-5:2017"/> </reference> <reference anchor="MPEG-CMAF" target="https://www.iso.org/standard/79106.html"> <front><title>ISO/IEC 23000-19:2020<title>Information technology - Multimedia application format (MPEG-A) - Part 19: Common media application format (CMAF) for segmented media</title> <author><organization/><organization>ISO</organization> </author> <date year="2020" month="March"/> </front> <seriesInfo name="ISO/IEC" value="23000-19:2020"/> </reference> <reference anchor="MPEG-TS" target="https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.222.0"> <front><title>H.222.0 : Information<title>Information technology - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Systems</title> <author><organization/><organization>ITU-T</organization> </author> <dateyear="2018" month="August" day="29"/>year="2021" month="June"/> </front> <seriesInfo name="ITU-T Recommendation" value="H.222.0"/> </reference> <reference anchor="SFRAME"target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-sframe/">target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sframe-enc/"> <front> <title>SecureMedia Frames Working Group (Home Page)</title>Frame (sframe)</title> <author><organization/><organization>IETF</organization> </author><date>n.d.</date></front> </reference> <reference anchor="SRT"target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2020-mops-01/materials/slides-interim-2020-mops-01-sessa-april-15-2020-mops-interim-an-update-on-streaming-video-alliance">target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2020-mops-01/materials/slides-interim-2020-mops-01-sessa-srt-protocol-overview-00"> <front><title>Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)<title>SRT Protocol Overview</title> <author initials="M." surname="Sharabayko" fullname="Maxim Sharabayko"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2020"month="April" day="15"/>month="April"/> </front> </reference> <reference anchor="Micro"> <front> <title>Microwave Oven Signal Interference Mitigation For Wi-Fi Communication Systems</title> <author initials="T. M." surname="Taher" fullname="Tanim M. Taher"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="M. J." surname="Misurac" fullname="Matthew J. Misurac"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="J. L." surname="LoCicero" fullname="Joseph L. LoCicero"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="D. R." surname="Ucci" fullname="Donald R. Ucci"> <organization/> </author> <date month="January" year="2008"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="2008name="DOI" value="10.1109/ccnc08.2007.21"/> <refcontent>2008 5th IEEE Consumer Communications and NetworkingConference 5th IEEE,Conference, pp.67-68" value=""/>67-68</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="BEHAVE" target="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1526709.1526745"> <front> <title>How much can behavioral targeting help online advertising?</title> <author initials="J." surname="Yan" fullname="Jun Yan"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="N." surname="Liu" fullname="Ning Liu"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="G." surname="Wang" fullname="Gang Wang"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="W." surname="Zhang" fullname="Wen Zhang"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="Y." surname="Jiang" fullname="Yun Jiang"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="Z." surname="Chen" fullname="Zheng Chen"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2009"month="April" day="20"/>month="April"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="WWWname="DOI" value="10.1145/1526709.1526745"/> <refcontent>WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World widewebApril 2009 Pages 261-270" value=""/>web, pp. 261-270</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="BEHAVE2" target="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1941487.1941498"> <front> <title>Online advertising, behavioral targeting, and privacy</title> <author initials="A." surname="Goldfarb" fullname="Avi Goldfarb"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="C. E." surname="Tucker" fullname="Catherine E. Tucker"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2011"month="May" day="01"/>month="May"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="Communicationsname="DOI" value="10.1145/1941487.1941498"/> <refcontent>Communications of theACMVolume 54Issue 5May 2011 pp 25-27" value=""/>ACM, Volume 54, Issue 5, pp. 25-27</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="ADFRAUD" target="https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp1040039"> <front> <title>Ads and Fraud: A Comprehensive Survey of Fraud in Online Advertising</title> <author initials="S." surname="Sadeghpour" fullname="Shadi Sadeghpour"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="N." surname="Vlajic" fullname="Natalija Vlajic"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2021"month="December" day="16"/>month="December"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="Journalname="DOI" value="10.3390/jcp1040039"/> <refcontent>Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 1, no.4: 804-832." value=""/>4, pp. 804-832</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="BALANCING" target="https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol27/iss1/2/"> <front> <title>Balancing Consumer Privacy with Behavioral Targeting</title> <authorinitials="D. D."initials="D." surname="Berger" fullname="Dustin D. Berger"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2010"/> </front><seriesInfo name="27 Santa<refcontent>Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal, Vol.2727, Issue11, Article2" value=""/>2</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="IAB-ADS" target="https://www.iab.com/"> <front> <title>IAB</title> <author> <organization/> </author><date>n.d.</date></front> </reference> <reference anchor="BAP" target="https://www.betterads.org/"> <front><title>The Coalition for<title>Making Online Ads BetterAds</title>for Everyone</title> <author><organization/><organization>Coalition for Better Ads</organization> </author><date>n.d.</date></front> </reference> <reference anchor="CoDel"> <front> <title>ControllingQueue Delay</title>queue delay</title> <author initials="K." surname="Nichols"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="V." surname="Jacobson"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2012" month="July"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="Communicationsname="DOI" value="10.1145/2209249.2209264"/> <refcontent>Communications of the ACM, Volume 55, Issue 7, pp.42-50" value=""/>42-50"</refcontent> </reference> <referenceanchor="Survey360o"anchor="Survey360" target="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9133103"> <front> <title>A Survey on Adaptive360360° Video Streaming: Solutions, Challenges and Opportunities</title> <author initials="A." surname="Yaqoob"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="T." surname="Bi"> <organization/> </author> <author initials="G." surname="Muntean"> <organization/> </author> <date year="2020" month="July"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="IEEEname="DOI" value="10.1109/COMST.2020.3006999"/> <refcontent>IEEE Communications Surveys &Tutorials" value=""/>Tutorials, Volume 22, Issue 4</refcontent> </reference> <reference anchor="ISOBMFF" target="https://www.iso.org/standard/83102.html"> <front><title>ISO/IEC 14496-12:2022 Information<title>Information technology - Coding of audio-visual objects - Part 12: ISO base media file format</title> <author><organization/><organization>ISO</organization> </author> <date year="2022" month="January"/> </front></reference> <reference anchor="I-D.ietf-quic-manageability"> <front> <title>Manageability of the QUIC Transport Protocol</title> <author fullname="Mirja Kuehlewind"> <organization>Ericsson</organization> </author> <author fullname="Brian Trammell"> <organization>Google Switzerland GmbH</organization> </author> <date day="15" month="July" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t> This document discusses manageability of the QUIC transport protocol, focusing on the implications of QUIC's design and wire image on network operations involving QUIC traffic. It is intended as a "user's manual" for the wire image, providing guidance for network operators and equipment vendors who rely on the use of transport- aware network functions. </t> </abstract> </front><seriesInfoname="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-quic-manageability-18"/>name="ISO/IEC" value="14496-12:2022"/> </reference> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9312.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control.xml"/> <referenceanchor="I-D.cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control"> <front> <title>BBR Congestion Control</title> <author fullname="Neal Cardwell"> <organization>Google</organization> </author> <author fullname="Yuchung Cheng"> <organization>Google</organization> </author> <author fullname="Soheil Hassas Yeganeh"> <organization>Google</organization> </author> <author fullname="Ian Swett"> <organization>Google</organization> </author> <author fullname="Van Jacobson"> <organization>Google</organization> </author> <date day="7" month="March" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t> This document specifies the BBR congestion control algorithm. BBR ("Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time") uses recent measurements of a transport connection's delivery rate, round-trip time, and packet loss rate to build an explicit model of the network path. BBR then uses this model to control both how fast it sends data and the maximum volume of data it allows in flight in the network at any time. Relative to loss-based congestion control algorithms such as Reno [RFC5681] or CUBIC [RFC8312], BBR offers substantially higher throughput for bottlenecks with shallow buffers or random losses, and substantially lower queueing delays for bottlenecks with deep buffers (avoiding "bufferbloat"). BBR can be implemented in any transport protocol that supports packet-delivery acknowledgment. Thus far, open source implementations are available for TCP [RFC793] and QUIC [RFC9000]. This document specifies version 2 of the BBR algorithm, also sometimes referred to as BBRv2 or bbr2. </t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control-02"/> </reference> <reference anchor="I-D.draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis">anchor="HLS-RFC8216BIS" target="https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-11.txt"> <front> <title>HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition</title> <author initials="R" surname="Pantos" fullname="RogerPantos">Pantos" role="editor"> <organization>Apple Inc.</organization> </author> <date day="11" month="May" year="2022"/><abstract> <t> This document obsoletes RFC 8216. It describes a protocol for transferring unbounded streams of multimedia data. It specifies the data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 10 of this protocol. </t> </abstract></front> <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-11"/> </reference><reference anchor="I-D.ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis"> <front> <title>Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification</title> <author fullname="Wesley M. Eddy"> <organization>MTI Systems</organization> </author> <date day="7" month="March" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t> This document specifies the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP is an important transport layer protocol in the Internet protocol stack, and has continuously evolved over decades of use and growth of the Internet. Over this time, a number of changes have been made to TCP as it was specified in RFC 793, though these have only been documented in a piecemeal fashion. This document collects and brings those changes together with the protocol specification from RFC 793. This document obsoletes RFC 793, as well as RFCs 879, 2873, 6093, 6429, 6528, and 6691 that updated parts of RFC 793. It updates RFCs 1011 and 1122, and should be considered as a replacement for the portions of those document dealing with TCP requirements. It also updates RFC 5961 by adding a small clarification in reset handling while in the SYN-RECEIVED state. The TCP header control bits from RFC 793 have also been updated based on RFC 3168. RFC EDITOR NOTE: If approved for publication as an RFC, this should be marked additionally as "STD: 7" and replace RFC 793 in that role. </t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-28"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC2001"> <front> <title>TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms</title> <author fullname="W. Stevens" initials="W." surname="Stevens"> <organization/> </author> <date month="January" year="1997"/> <abstract> <t>Modern implementations of TCP contain four intertwined algorithms that have never been fully documented as Internet standards: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2001"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC2001"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC2736"> <front> <title>Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications</title> <author fullname="M. Handley" initials="M." surname="Handley"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="C. Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins"> <organization/> </author> <date month="December" year="1999"/> <abstract> <t>This document provides general guidelines aimed at assisting the authors of RTP Payload Format specifications in deciding on good formats. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="BCP" value="36"/> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2736"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC2736"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC3135"> <front> <title>Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related Degradations</title> <author fullname="J. Border" initials="J." surname="Border"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Kojo" initials="M." surname="Kojo"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="J. Griner" initials="J." surname="Griner"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="G. Montenegro" initials="G." surname="Montenegro"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="Z. Shelby" initials="Z." surname="Shelby"> <organization/> </author> <date month="June" year="2001"/> <abstract> <t>This document is a survey of Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) often employed to improve degraded TCP performance caused by characteristics of specific link environments, for example, in satellite, wireless WAN, and wireless LAN environments. This memo provides information for the Internet community.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3135"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC3135"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC3168"> <front> <title>The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP</title> <author fullname="K. Ramakrishnan" initials="K." surname="Ramakrishnan"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Floyd" initials="S." surname="Floyd"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="D. Black" initials="D." surname="Black"> <organization/> </author> <date month="September" year="2001"/> <abstract> <t>This memo specifies the incorporation of ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to TCP and IP, including ECN's use of two bits in the IP header. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3168"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC3168"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC3550"> <front> <title>RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications</title> <author fullname="H. Schulzrinne" initials="H." surname="Schulzrinne"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Casner" initials="S." surname="Casner"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Frederick" initials="R." surname="Frederick"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="V. Jacobson" initials="V." surname="Jacobson"> <organization/> </author> <date month="July" year="2003"/> <abstract> <t>This memorandum describes RTP, the real-time transport protocol. RTP provides end-to-end network transport functions suitable for applications transmitting real-time data, such as audio, video or simulation data, over multicast or unicast network services. RTP does not address resource reservation and does not guarantee quality-of- service for real-time services. The data transport is augmented by a control protocol (RTCP) to allow monitoring of the data delivery in a manner scalable to large multicast networks, and to provide minimal control and identification functionality. RTP and RTCP are designed to be independent of the underlying transport and network layers. The protocol supports the use of RTP-level translators and mixers. Most of the text in this memorandum is identical to RFC 1889 which it obsoletes. There are no changes in the packet formats on the wire, only changes to the rules and algorithms governing how the protocol is used. The biggest change is an enhancement to the scalable timer algorithm for calculating when to send RTCP packets in order to minimize transmission in excess of the intended rate when many participants join a session simultaneously. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="STD" value="64"/> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3550"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC3550"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC3758"> <front> <title>Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Partial Reliability Extension</title> <author fullname="R. Stewart" initials="R." surname="Stewart"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Ramalho" initials="M." surname="Ramalho"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="Q. Xie" initials="Q." surname="Xie"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Tuexen" initials="M." surname="Tuexen"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="P. Conrad" initials="P." surname="Conrad"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2004"/> <abstract> <t>This memo describes an extension to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) that allows an SCTP endpoint to signal to its peer that it should move the cumulative ack point forward. When both sides of an SCTP association support this extension, it can be used by an SCTP implementation to provide partially reliable data transmission service to an upper layer protocol. This memo describes the protocol extensions, which consist of a new parameter for INIT and INIT ACK, and a new FORWARD TSN chunk type, and provides one example of a partially reliable service that can be provided to the upper layer via this mechanism. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3758"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC3758"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC4733"> <front> <title>RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones, and Telephony Signals</title> <author fullname="H. Schulzrinne" initials="H." surname="Schulzrinne"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="T. Taylor" initials="T." surname="Taylor"> <organization/> </author> <date month="December" year="2006"/> <abstract> <t>This memo describes how to carry dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) signalling, other tone signals, and telephony events in RTP packets. It obsoletes RFC 2833.</t> <t>This memo captures and expands upon the basic framework defined in RFC 2833, but retains only the most basic event codes. It sets up an IANA registry to which other event code assignments may be added. Companion documents add event codes to this registry relating to modem, fax, text telephony, and channel-associated signalling events. The remainder of the event codes defined in RFC 2833 are conditionally reserved in case other documents revive their use.</t> <t>This document provides a number of clarifications to the original document. However, it specifically differs from RFC 2833 by removing the requirement that all compliant implementations support the DTMF events. Instead, compliant implementations taking part in out-of-band negotiations of media stream content indicate what events they support. This memo adds three new procedures to the RFC 2833 framework: subdivision of long events into segments, reporting of multiple events in a single packet, and the concept and reporting of state events. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4733"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC4733"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC5481"> <front> <title>Packet Delay Variation Applicability Statement</title> <author fullname="A. Morton" initials="A." surname="Morton"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="B. Claise" initials="B." surname="Claise"> <organization/> </author> <date month="March" year="2009"/> <abstract> <t>Packet delay variation metrics appear in many different standards documents. The metric definition in RFC 3393 has considerable flexibility, and it allows multiple formulations of delay variation through the specification of different packet selection functions.</t> <t>Although flexibility provides wide coverage and room for new ideas, it can make comparisons of independent implementations more difficult. Two different formulations of delay variation have come into wide use in the context of active measurements. This memo examines a range of circumstances for active measurements of delay variation and their uses, and recommends which of the two forms is best matched<xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9293.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2001.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2736.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3135.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3168.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3550.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3758.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.4733.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5481.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5594.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5681.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5762.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.6190.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.6582.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.6817.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.6843.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7258.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7414.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7510.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7656.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7661.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8083.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8084.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8085.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8095.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8216.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8312.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8404.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8446.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8622.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8723.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8824.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8825.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8834.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8835.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8999.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9000.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9001.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9002.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9065.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9114.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9260.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9111.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9075.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.9221.xml"/> </references> <section anchor="acknowledgments" numbered="false"> <name>Acknowledgments</name> <t>Thanks toparticular conditions and tasks. This memo provides information<contact fullname="Nancy Cam-Winget"/>, <contact fullname="Leslie Daigle"/>, <contact fullname="Roman Danyliw"/>, <contact fullname="Glenn Deen"/>, <contact fullname="Martin Duke"/>, <contact fullname="Linda Dunbar"/>, <contact fullname="Lars Eggert"/>, <contact fullname="Mike English"/>, <contact fullname="Roni Even"/>, <contact fullname="Aaron Falk"/>, <contact fullname="Alexandre Gouaillard"/>, <contact fullname="Erik Kline"/>, <contact fullname="Renan Krishna"/>, <contact fullname="Warren Kumari"/>, <contact fullname="Will Law"/>, <contact fullname="Chris Lemmons"/>, <contact fullname="Kiran Makhjani"/>, <contact fullname="Sanjay Mishra"/>, <contact fullname="Mark Nottingham"/>, <contact fullname="Dave Oran"/>, <contact fullname="Lucas Pardue"/>, <contact fullname="Tommy Pauly"/>, <contact fullname="Kyle Rose"/>, <contact fullname="Zahed Sarker"/>, <contact fullname="Michael Scharf"/>, <contact fullname="John Scudder"/>, <contact fullname="Valery Smyslov"/>, <contact fullname="Matt Stock"/>, <contact fullname="Éric Vyncke"/>, and <contact fullname="Robert Wilton"/> forthe Internet community.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5481"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC5481"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC5594"> <front> <title>Report from the IETF Workshop on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Infrastructure, May 28, 2008</title> <author fullname="J. Peterson" initials="J." surname="Peterson"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Cooper" initials="A." surname="Cooper"> <organization/> </author> <date month="July" year="2009"/> <abstract> <t>This document reports the outcome of a workshop organized by the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Directors of the IETF to discuss network delay and congestion issues resulting from increased Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic volumes. The workshop was held on May 28, 2008 at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA. The goals of the workshop were twofold: to understand the technical problems that ISPs and end users are experiencing as a result of high volumes of P2P traffic, and to begin to understand how the IETF may be helpful in addressing these problems. Gaining an understanding of where in the IETF this work might be pursued and how to extract feasible work items were highlighted as important tasks in pursuit of the latter goal. The workshop wasverywell attended and produced several work items that have since been taken up by members of the IETF community. This memo provides information for the Internet community.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5594"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC5594"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC5681"> <front> <title>TCP Congestion Control</title> <author fullname="M. Allman" initials="M." surname="Allman"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="V. Paxson" initials="V." surname="Paxson"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="E. Blanton" initials="E." surname="Blanton"> <organization/> </author> <date month="September" year="2009"/> <abstract> <t>This document defines TCP's four intertwined congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. In addition, the document specifies how TCP should begin transmission after a relatively long idle period, as well as discussing various acknowledgment generation methods. This document obsoletes RFC 2581. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5681"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC5681"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC5762"> <front> <title>RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)</title> <author fullname="C. Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins"> <organization/> </author> <date month="April" year="2010"/> <abstract> <t>The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is a widely used transport for real-time multimedia on IP networks. The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transport protocol that provides desirable services for real-time applications. This memo specifies a mapping of RTP onto DCCP, along with associated signalling, such that real- time applications can make use of the services provided by DCCP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5762"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC5762"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC6190"> <front> <title>RTP Payload Format for Scalable Video Coding</title> <author fullname="S. Wenger" initials="S." surname="Wenger"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="Y.-K. Wang" initials="Y.-K." surname="Wang"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="T. Schierl" initials="T." surname="Schierl"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Eleftheriadis" initials="A." surname="Eleftheriadis"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2011"/> <abstract> <t>This memo describes an RTP payload format for Scalable Video Coding (SVC) as defined in Annex G of ITU-T Recommendation H.264, which is technically identical to Amendment 3 of ISO/IEC International Standard 14496-10. The RTP payload format allows for packetization of one or more Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units in each RTP packet payload, as well as fragmentation of a NAL unit in multiple RTP packets. Furthermore, it supports transmission of an SVC stream over a single as well as multiple RTP sessions. The payload format defines a new media subtype name "H264-SVC", but is still backward compatible to RFC 6184 since the base layer, when encapsulated in its own RTP stream, must use the H.264 media subtype name ("H264") and the packetization method specified in RFC 6184. The payload format has wide applicability in videoconferencing, Internet video streaming, and high-bitrate entertainment-quality video, among others. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="6190"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC6190"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC6582"> <front> <title>The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm</title> <author fullname="T. Henderson" initials="T." surname="Henderson"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Floyd" initials="S." surname="Floyd"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Gurtov" initials="A." surname="Gurtov"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="Y. Nishida" initials="Y." surname="Nishida"> <organization/> </author> <date month="April" year="2012"/> <abstract> <t>RFC 5681 documents the following four intertwined TCP congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. RFC 5681 explicitly allows certain modifications of these algorithms, including modifications that use the TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) option (RFC 2883), and modifications that respond to "partial acknowledgments" (ACKs that cover new data, but not all the data outstanding when loss was detected) in the absence of SACK. This document describes a specific algorithm for responding to partial acknowledgments, referred to as "NewReno". This response to partial acknowledgments was first proposed by Janey Hoe. This document obsoletes RFC 3782. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="6582"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC6582"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC6817"> <front> <title>Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)</title> <author fullname="S. Shalunov" initials="S." surname="Shalunov"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="G. Hazel" initials="G." surname="Hazel"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="J. Iyengar" initials="J." surname="Iyengar"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Kuehlewind" initials="M." surname="Kuehlewind"> <organization/> </author> <date month="December" year="2012"/> <abstract> <t>Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) is an experimental delay-based congestion control algorithm that seeks to utilize the available bandwidth on an end-to-end path while limiting the consequent increase in queueing delay on that path. LEDBAT uses changes in one-way delay measurements to limit congestion that the flow itself induces in the network. LEDBAT is designed for use by background bulk-transfer applications to be no more aggressive than standard TCP congestion control (as specified in RFC 5681) and to yield in the presence of competing flows, thus limiting interference with the network performance of competing flows. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="6817"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC6817"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC6843"> <front> <title>RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Block for Delay Metric Reporting</title> <author fullname="A. Clark" initials="A." surname="Clark"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="K. Gross" initials="K." surname="Gross"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="Q. Wu" initials="Q." surname="Wu"> <organization/> </author> <date month="January" year="2013"/> <abstract> <t>This document defines an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) block that allows the reporting of delay metrics for use in a range of Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) applications. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="6843"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC6843"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC7258"> <front> <title>Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack</title> <author fullname="S. Farrell" initials="S." surname="Farrell"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="H. Tschofenig" initials="H." surname="Tschofenig"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2014"/> <abstract> <t>Pervasive monitoring is a technical attack that should be mitigated in the design of IETF protocols, where possible.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="BCP" value="188"/> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7258"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7258"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC7414"> <front> <title>A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents</title> <author fullname="M. Duke" initials="M." surname="Duke"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Braden" initials="R." surname="Braden"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="W. Eddy" initials="W." surname="Eddy"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="E. Blanton" initials="E." surname="Blanton"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Zimmermann" initials="A." surname="Zimmermann"> <organization/> </author> <date month="February" year="2015"/> <abstract> <t>This document contains a roadmap to the Request for Comments (RFC) documents relating to the Internet's Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). This roadmap provides a brief summary of the documents defining TCP and various TCP extensions that have accumulated in the RFC series. This serves as a guide and quick reference for both TCP implementers and other parties who desire information contained in the TCP-related RFCs.</t> <t>This document obsoletes RFC 4614.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7414"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7414"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC7510"> <front> <title>Encapsulating MPLS in UDP</title> <author fullname="X. Xu" initials="X." surname="Xu"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="N. Sheth" initials="N." surname="Sheth"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="L. Yong" initials="L." surname="Yong"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Callon" initials="R." surname="Callon"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="D. Black" initials="D." surname="Black"> <organization/> </author> <date month="April" year="2015"/> <abstract> <t>This document specifies an IP-based encapsulation for MPLS, called MPLS-in-UDP for situations where UDP (User Datagram Protocol) encapsulation is preferred to direct use of MPLS, e.g., to enable UDP-based ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath) or link aggregation. The MPLS- in-UDP encapsulation technology must only be deployed within a single network (with a single network operator) or networks of an adjacent set of cooperating network operators where traffic is managed to avoid congestion, rather than over the Internet where congestion control is required. Usage restrictions apply to MPLS-in-UDP usage for traffic that is not congestion controlled and to UDP zero checksum usage with IPv6.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7510"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7510"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC7656"> <front> <title>A Taxonomy of Semantics and Mechanisms for Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Sources</title> <author fullname="J. Lennox" initials="J." surname="Lennox"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="K. Gross" initials="K." surname="Gross"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Nandakumar" initials="S." surname="Nandakumar"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="G. Salgueiro" initials="G." surname="Salgueiro"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="B. Burman" initials="B." role="editor" surname="Burman"> <organization/> </author> <date month="November" year="2015"/> <abstract> <t>The terminology about, and associations among, Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) sources can be complex and somewhat opaque. This document describes a number of existing and proposed properties and relationships among RTP sources and defines common terminology for discussing protocol entities and their relationships.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7656"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7656"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC7661"> <front> <title>Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic</title> <author fullname="G. Fairhurst" initials="G." surname="Fairhurst"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Sathiaseelan" initials="A." surname="Sathiaseelan"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Secchi" initials="R." surname="Secchi"> <organization/> </author> <date month="October" year="2015"/> <abstract> <t>This document provides a mechanism to address issues that arise when TCP is used for traffic that exhibits periods where the sending rate is limited by the application rather than the congestion window. It provides an experimental update to TCP that allows a TCP sender to restart quickly following a rate-limited interval. This method is expected to benefit applications that send rate-limited traffic using TCP while also providing an appropriate response if congestion is experienced.</t> <t>This document also evaluates the Experimental specification of TCP Congestion Window Validation (CWV) defined in RFC 2861 and concludes that RFC 2861 sought to address important issues but failed to deliver a widely used solution. This document therefore reclassifies the status of RFC 2861 from Experimental to Historic. This document obsoletes RFC 2861.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7661"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7661"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8083"> <front> <title>Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions</title> <author fullname="C. Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="V. Singh" initials="V." surname="Singh"> <organization/> </author> <date month="March" year="2017"/> <abstract> <t>The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is widely used in telephony, video conferencing, and telepresence applications. Such applications are often run on best-effort UDP/IP networks. If congestion control is not implemented in these applications, then network congestion can lead to uncontrolled packet loss and a resulting deterioration of the user's multimedia experience. The congestion control algorithm acts as a safety measure by stopping RTP flows from using excessive resources and protecting the network from overload. At the time of this writing, however, while there are several proprietary solutions, there is no standard algorithm for congestion control of interactive RTP flows.</t> <t>This document does not propose a congestion control algorithm. It instead defines a minimal set of RTP circuit breakers: conditions under which an RTP sender needs to stop transmitting media data to protect the network from excessive congestion. It is expected that, in the absence of long-lived excessive congestion, RTP applications running on best-effort IP networks will be able to operate without triggering these circuit breakers. To avoid triggering the RTP circuit breaker, any Standards Track congestion control algorithms defined for RTP will need to operate within the envelope set by these RTP circuit breaker algorithms.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8083"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8083"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8084"> <front> <title>Network Transport Circuit Breakers</title> <author fullname="G. Fairhurst" initials="G." surname="Fairhurst"> <organization/> </author> <date month="March" year="2017"/> <abstract> <t>This document explains what is meant by the term "network transport Circuit Breaker". It describes the need for Circuit Breakers (CBs) for network tunnels and applications when using non-congestion- controlled traffic and explains where CBs are, and are not, needed. It also defines requirements for building a CB and the expected outcomes of using a CB within the Internet.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="BCP" value="208"/> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8084"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8084"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8085"> <front> <title>UDP Usage Guidelines</title> <author fullname="L. Eggert" initials="L." surname="Eggert"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="G. Fairhurst" initials="G." surname="Fairhurst"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="G. Shepherd" initials="G." surname="Shepherd"> <organization/> </author> <date month="March" year="2017"/> <abstract> <t>The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal message-passing transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms. This document provides guidelines on the use of UDP for the designers of applications, tunnels, and other protocols that use UDP. Congestion control guidelines are a primary focus, but the document also provides guidance on other topics, including message sizes, reliability, checksums, middlebox traversal, the use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), Differentiated Services Code Points (DSCPs), and ports.</t> <t>Because congestion control is critical to the stable operation of the Internet, applications and other protocols that choose to use UDP as an Internet transport must employ mechanisms to prevent congestion collapse and to establish some degree of fairness with concurrent traffic. They may also need to implement additional mechanisms, depending on how they use UDP.</t> <t>Some guidance is also applicable to the design of other protocols (e.g., protocols layered directly on IP or via IP-based tunnels), especially when these protocols do not themselves provide congestion control.</t> <t>This document obsoletes RFC 5405 and adds guidelines for multicast UDP usage.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="BCP" value="145"/> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8085"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8085"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8095"> <front> <title>Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms</title> <author fullname="G. Fairhurst" initials="G." role="editor" surname="Fairhurst"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="B. Trammell" initials="B." role="editor" surname="Trammell"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Kuehlewind" initials="M." role="editor" surname="Kuehlewind"> <organization/> </author> <date month="March" year="2017"/> <abstract> <t>This document describes, surveys, and classifies the protocol mechanisms provided by existing IETF protocols, as background for determining a common set of transport services. It examines the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Multipath TCP, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), UDP-Lite, the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport / Asynchronous Layered Coding (FLUTE/ALC) for Reliable Multicast, NACK- Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Datagram TLS (DTLS), and the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), when HTTP is used as a pseudotransport. This survey provides background for the definition of transport services within the TAPS working group.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8095"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8095"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8216"> <front> <title>HTTP Live Streaming</title> <author fullname="R. Pantos" initials="R." role="editor" surname="Pantos"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="W. May" initials="W." surname="May"> <organization/> </author> <date month="August" year="2017"/> <abstract> <t>This document describes a protocol for transferring unbounded streams of multimedia data. It specifies the data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 7 of this protocol.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8216"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8216"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8312"> <front> <title>CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks</title> <author fullname="I. Rhee" initials="I." surname="Rhee"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="L. Xu" initials="L." surname="Xu"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Ha" initials="S." surname="Ha"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Zimmermann" initials="A." surname="Zimmermann"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="L. Eggert" initials="L." surname="Eggert"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Scheffenegger" initials="R." surname="Scheffenegger"> <organization/> </author> <date month="February" year="2018"/> <abstract> <t>CUBIC is an extension to the current TCP standards. It differs from the current TCP standards only in the congestion control algorithm on the sender side. In particular, it uses a cubic function instead of a linear window increase function of the current TCP standards to improve scalability and stability under fast and long-distance networks. CUBIC and its predecessor algorithm have been adopted as defaults by Linux and have been used for many years. This document provides a specification of CUBIC to enable third-party implementations and to solicit community feedback through experimentation on the performance of CUBIC.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8312"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8312"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8404"> <front> <title>Effects of Pervasive Encryption on Operators</title> <author fullname="K. Moriarty" initials="K." role="editor" surname="Moriarty"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A. Morton" initials="A." role="editor" surname="Morton"> <organization/> </author> <date month="July" year="2018"/> <abstract> <t>Pervasive monitoring attacks on the privacy of Internet users are of serious concern to both user and operator communities. RFC 7258 discusses the critical need to protect users' privacy when developing IETF specifications and also recognizes that making networks unmanageable to mitigate pervasive monitoring is not an acceptable outcome: an appropriate balance is needed. This document discusses current security and network operations as well as management practices that may be impacted by the shift to increased use of encryption to help guide protocol development in support of manageable and secure networks.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8404"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8404"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8446"> <front> <title>The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3</title> <author fullname="E. Rescorla" initials="E." surname="Rescorla"> <organization/> </author> <date month="August" year="2018"/> <abstract> <t>This document specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.</t> <t>This document updates RFCs 5705 and 6066, and obsoletes RFCs 5077, 5246, and 6961. This document also specifies new requirements for TLS 1.2 implementations.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8446"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8446"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8622"> <front> <title>A Lower-Effort Per-Hop Behavior (LE PHB) for Differentiated Services</title> <author fullname="R. Bless" initials="R." surname="Bless"> <organization/> </author> <date month="June" year="2019"/> <abstract> <t>This document specifies properties and characteristics of a Lower- Effort Per-Hop Behavior (LE PHB). The primary objective of this LE PHB is to protect Best-Effort (BE) traffic (packets forwarded with the default PHB) from LE traffic in congestion situations, i.e., when resources become scarce, BE traffic has precedence over LE traffic and may preempt it. Alternatively, packets forwarded by the LE PHB can be associated with a scavenger service class, i.e., they scavenge otherwise-unused resources only. There are numerous uses for this PHB, e.g., for background traffic of low precedence, such as bulk data transfers with low priority in time, non-time-critical backups, larger software updates, web search engines while gathering information from web servers and so on. This document recommends a standard Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) value for the LE PHB.</t> <t>This specification obsoletes RFC 3662 and updates the DSCP recommended in RFCs 4594 and 8325 to use the DSCP assigned in this specification.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8622"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8622"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8723"> <front> <title>Double Encryption Procedures for the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)</title> <author fullname="C. Jennings" initials="C." surname="Jennings"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="P. Jones" initials="P." surname="Jones"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Barnes" initials="R." surname="Barnes"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="A.B. Roach" initials="A.B." surname="Roach"> <organization/> </author> <date month="April" year="2020"/> <abstract> <t>In some conferencing scenarios, it is desirable for an intermediary to be able to manipulate some parameters in Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets, while still providing strong end-to-end security guarantees. This document defines a cryptographic transform for the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) that uses two separate but related cryptographic operations to provide hop-by-hop and end-to-end security guarantees. Both the end-to-end and hop-by-hop cryptographic algorithms can utilize an authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) algorithm or take advantage of future SRTP transforms with different properties.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8723"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8723"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8824"> <front> <title>Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)</title> <author fullname="A. Minaburo" initials="A." surname="Minaburo"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="L. Toutain" initials="L." surname="Toutain"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="R. Andreasen" initials="R." surname="Andreasen"> <organization/> </author> <date month="June" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document defines how to compress Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) headers using the Static Context Header Compression and fragmentation (SCHC) framework. SCHC defines a header compression mechanism adapted for Constrained Devices. SCHC uses a static description of the header to reduce the header's redundancy and size. While RFC 8724 describes the SCHC compression and fragmentation framework, and its application for IPv6/UDP headers, this document applies SCHC to CoAP headers. The CoAP header structure differs from IPv6 and UDP, since CoAP uses a flexible header with a variable number of options, themselves of variable length. The CoAP message format is asymmetric: the request messages have a header format different from the format in the response messages. This specification gives guidance on applying SCHC to flexible headers and how to leverage the asymmetry for more efficient compression Rules.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8824"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8824"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8825"> <front> <title>Overview: Real-Time Protocols for Browser-Based Applications</title> <author fullname="H. Alvestrand" initials="H." surname="Alvestrand"> <organization/> </author> <date month="January" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document gives an overview and context of a protocol suite intended for use with real-time applications that can be deployed in browsers -- "real-time communication on the Web".</t> <t>It intends to serve as a starting and coordination point to make sure that (1) all the parts that are needed to achieve this goal are findable and (2) the parts that belong in the Internet protocol suite are fully specified and on the right publication track.</t> <t>This document is an applicability statement -- it does not itself specify any protocol, but it specifies which other specifications implementations are supposed to follow to be compliant with Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC).</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8825"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8825"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8834"> <front> <title>Media Transport and Use of RTP in WebRTC</title> <author fullname="C. Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Westerlund" initials="M." surname="Westerlund"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="J. Ott" initials="J." surname="Ott"> <organization/> </author> <date month="January" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>The framework for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) provides support for direct interactive rich communication using audio, video, text, collaboration, games, etc. between two peers' web browsers. This memo describes the media transport aspects of the WebRTC framework. It specifies how the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is used in the WebRTC context and gives requirements for which RTP features, profiles, and extensions need to be supported.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8834"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8834"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8835"> <front> <title>Transports for WebRTC</title> <author fullname="H. Alvestrand" initials="H." surname="Alvestrand"> <organization/> </author> <date month="January" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document describes the data transport protocols used by Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), including the protocols used for interaction with intermediate boxes such as firewalls, relays, and NAT boxes.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8835"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8835"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC8999"> <front> <title>Version-Independent Properties of QUIC</title> <author fullname="M. Thomson" initials="M." surname="Thomson"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document defines the properties of the QUIC transport protocol that are common to all versions of the protocol.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8999"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8999"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9000"> <front> <title>QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport</title> <author fullname="J. Iyengar" initials="J." role="editor" surname="Iyengar"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Thomson" initials="M." role="editor" surname="Thomson"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC provides applications with flow-controlled streams for structured communication, low-latency connection establishment, and network path migration. QUIC includes security measures that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability in a range of deployment circumstances. Accompanying documents describe the integration of TLS for key negotiation, loss detection, and an exemplary congestion control algorithm.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9000"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9000"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9001"> <front> <title>Using TLS to Secure QUIC</title> <author fullname="M. Thomson" initials="M." role="editor" surname="Thomson"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Turner" initials="S." role="editor" surname="Turner"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document describes how Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to secure QUIC.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9001"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9001"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9002"> <front> <title>QUIC Loss Detection and Congestion Control</title> <author fullname="J. Iyengar" initials="J." role="editor" surname="Iyengar"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="I. Swett" initials="I." role="editor" surname="Swett"> <organization/> </author> <date month="May" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>This document describes loss detection and congestion control mechanisms for QUIC.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9002"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9002"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9065"> <front> <title>Considerations around Transport Header Confidentiality, Network Operations, and the Evolution of Internet Transport Protocols</title> <author fullname="G. Fairhurst" initials="G." surname="Fairhurst"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="C. Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins"> <organization/> </author> <date month="July" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>To protect user data and privacy, Internet transport protocols have supported payload encryption and authentication for some time. Such encryption and authentication are now also starting to be applied to the transport protocol headers. This helps avoid transport protocol ossification by middleboxes, mitigate attacks against the transport protocol, and protect metadata about the communication. Current operational practice in some networks inspect transport header information within the network, but this is no longer possible when those transport headers are encrypted.</t> <t>This document discusses the possible impact when network traffic uses a protocol with an encrypted transport header. It suggests issues to consider when designing new transport protocols or features.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9065"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9065"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9114"> <front> <title>HTTP/3</title> <author fullname="M. Bishop" initials="M." role="editor" surname="Bishop"> <organization/> </author> <date month="June" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t>The QUIC transport protocol has several features that are desirable in a transport for HTTP, such as stream multiplexing, per-stream flow control, and low-latency connection establishment. This document describes a mapping of HTTP semantics over QUIC. This document also identifies HTTP/2 features that are subsumed by QUIC and describes how HTTP/2 extensions can be ported to HTTP/3.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9114"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9114"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9260"> <front> <title>Stream Control Transmission Protocol</title> <author fullname="R. Stewart" initials="R." surname="Stewart"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Tüxen" initials="M." surname="Tüxen"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="K. Nielsen" initials="K." surname="Nielsen"> <organization/> </author> <date month="June" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t>This document describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and obsoletes RFC 4960. It incorporates the specification of the chunk flags registry from RFC 6096 and the specification of the I bit of DATA chunks from RFC 7053. Therefore, RFCs 6096 and 7053 are also obsoleted by this document. In addition, RFCs 4460 and 8540, which describe errata for SCTP, are obsoleted by this document. </t> <t>SCTP was originally designed to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signaling messages over IP networks. It is also suited to be used for other applications, for example, WebRTC.</t> <t>SCTP is a reliable transport protocol operating on top of a connectionless packet network, such as IP. It offers the following services to its users:</t> <t>The design of SCTP includes appropriate congestion avoidance behavior and resistance to flooding and masquerade attacks.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9260"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9260"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9111"> <front> <title>HTTP Caching</title> <author fullname="R. Fielding" initials="R." role="editor" surname="Fielding"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Nottingham" initials="M." role="editor" surname="Nottingham"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="J. Reschke" initials="J." role="editor" surname="Reschke"> <organization/> </author> <date month="June" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines HTTP caches and the associated header fields that control cache behavior or indicate cacheable response messages. </t> <t>This document obsoletes RFC 7234.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="STD" value="98"/> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9111"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9111"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9221"> <front> <title>An Unreliable Datagram Extension to QUIC</title> <author fullname="T. Pauly" initials="T." surname="Pauly"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="E. Kinnear" initials="E." surname="Kinnear"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="D. Schinazi" initials="D." surname="Schinazi"> <organization/> </author> <date month="March" year="2022"/> <abstract> <t>This document defines an extension to the QUIC transport protocol to add support for sending and receiving unreliable datagrams over a QUIC connection.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9221"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9221"/> </reference> <reference anchor="RFC9075"> <front> <title>Report from the IAB COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop 2020</title> <author fullname="J. Arkko" initials="J." surname="Arkko"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="S. Farrell" initials="S." surname="Farrell"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="M. Kühlewind" initials="M." surname="Kühlewind"> <organization/> </author> <author fullname="C. Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins"> <organization/> </author> <date month="July" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused changes in Internet user behavior, particularly during the introduction of initial quarantine and work-from-home arrangements. These behavior changes drove changes in Internet traffic.</t> <t>The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) held a workshop to discuss network impacts of the pandemic on November 9-13, 2020. The workshop was held to convene interested researchers, network operators, network management experts, and Internet technologists to share their experiences. The meeting was held online given the ongoing travel and contact restrictions at that time.</t> <t>Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are those of the workshop participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB viewshelpful suggestions, reviews, andpositions.</t> </abstract> </front> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="9075"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC9075"/> </reference> </references>comments.</t> </section> </back><!-- ##markdown-source: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+y9624b2ZIu+J9PkVDhTEl9SN0s+XYOeo4suaq8t+3StlRV fUGjkCSTYpYpJjczKVnb7UG/w/waYObl+kkmvi8i1lqZJFWujYPBYDAb6C5Z yly5LrHi+kXEYDDoNWUzK15mPy6KZd6U1TyfZefVvC7H9u86m1TL7KpZFvlt Ob/J3hXjMu/lw+GyuHup/0r++uOi7o2r0Ty/lTHHy3zSDMqimQxuq0U9qP2x QbUYyciDo+PeOG+Kl72R/P+bavnwMivnk6pXLpYvs2a5qpvjw8MXh8c9ffNl 9ub19Xe9XH6WCV9e9e6r5cebZbVayETw74/Fg/xqLM/Nm2I5L5rBBabQk/fz +fjXfFbNZVoPRd1blC+zf22qUT+rq6UMPqnlp4db/UEWcJsvFjLRf+v18lUz rZYve1k2kP/LZIL1y+xP+9kP1Wwmg/J3utw/5R+L1q+r5c3L7OxjfpuX2XUx ms6rWXVTFvKFN/PRPh/BwormZXZ0epi9Wlb5+D5/4B9GZSO7cZ7fDpfl+Kbo Z+/OssPjo5MT/Wu1mjfYrp/mZVOM5QBkA+usmmRnt8WyHOV8qpAPz15mv8m8 pjqtfdmT/3GDX++Pqtv2ms72s1fFTTFPVnQ2K5PfcTnviwa7Lt9UQmjN5nol f3lIv53Pyv0hRvgfc39x/9ZeTL59tZ9d5Pcf5efk61eLYj4qlq2/cA7X+P28 8bVmb9+e//FdqXX0sQ6+DypNdqYHOlzeyg24E/KU985/fv/mJd9v8uUNjmza NIv65cHB/f29vF0Uzw+P92V6B08O8vGv02p0MLzPjw8Wq+GsHB2M8tmsPjh6 8evh0+OTg3l1X8xmv8oDvx4e/Xr0Ar/cX4wnOr5eyJ3zsh5VmXw2+65aFqO8 brLVAtdlh4/x4mR/Ws2L7Piknx0fHr3APC/PzzdPE1P8tJjJUJwtpyqEvrqV nTx4fvrs6Pj589b3X8ue3fDGX77+Hns5H+fLsbKDy6qU/T+fVauxcIvbxbKo a+EVOrN4Y/C/QTjhq9H0Pl/+rf37ohEa2U9WhIUMDp/o7ZBTK2ocBa7+69fZ n6rVEhyqmmdhejKv7KqYFSMc+XW1KEe1DJ2dl8vRqmxq/ftD3RS3NTYIq9ly ko9u0Ysnz06enrS3iDvz5lZmUgudZD8L06xkP8aYlm/Y+p4MAg95J1euehgV vc0bki7/clmNigIjk6CbacEd4YreyfKOjjavaTzbz0e3tpTy4Ohw/+jo5FQo 8eTJ6enxPv/77KS1qrN5Jtsg38a6ZbOLu3y2oizAl0UqFIN8nC8a/VU+E8Zd NtNb7jr/gL0IvD6r7uQO/3B9ffk4dZx9nNbTfFi2/yBM6TzlS+EP8tuL6m5Z zcq6TTxHA5EX3d07O3+n22T7dXl8+PeQwPHzZ0dHz9q3xDZHFoozkW0j3xDW Qr6zWMyKb+tsVt0PZjLD+egh++Ht1SM78WdZ12qZf/zdW3J8ODh8sfmWYIFY 6Nu3g4uzqx+2EEZeT8uJL7A+OP8weCuzfKuzHLyVQxwsn69xpbfJSt5V40L5 AT7zyKLw58Gb79bm/4Sc9d3Zd4Pz69fbuWtOEQq+fLCqD4r5we1q1pQUI+Fw 6oP7qTD9wSKXIzhI9jvROkSqTwZ8jE+tre2nWbPM011IFJufavz/8+lqLiJs 8Ho+krWPyVvsd9n1Mp/Xk2K5lJ+xpo37Yf91EfdLOZtlb/P78Gtu1y/7rd9R 5u1s1SN22vT/fHB0iG09e/XharW8Kx6+ntDzoexVPmoSuXByfPL86EmbPWQ6 Lpjwq7IBP8jOIj8QLl/cFhu1xuzHr2AFr/az6zyf/wE+cF2CAxfL9h8+7Gf/ wj/IZZx3t9/Um+G4mE3zjzIuGF0xTO9ZlqpF63+OwmrzHRSpeLuai86hOrRu WZ39L6IjNcIv8xlZEekIPH3LHS3uilkFUs3BSHgD/Gw48AGe/HUmd/XXQOYH 01n9q26t/OtX0XNG5cQm8qucyq8c61cZuxwVdetohTVlZ/4m9K/4Js+T7Cy7 0DcfOUM+l2i56Z1/yjt/fTY4Pnz6dPOy62m12B81+X4jxH6wWFbj1UgueLzI f12JXtk8DKrJQCUVVLmBbJbwgYE8L79q5DgGcj0Ht0Ujql9rnZEs/6IDgVW/ DgNlrzlQHzLXRuJFf5eM1F027yjsJjmbZbykD9lZXVejklu4hf3JVpweHp78 oa24L4YDHKMdzuAOmsegGFU1FZ2BEMqt/JoscjCaybKagXxZfpb/w9fS7Tjn w3ZFz/mw6NxNnu2evzu/2Nt+zDL1DSIJZP327Or6zd+jiD59+kJsnOO2iLXR srPMlgLrVLR9UfbFrJH9Bm2OH+RSl6NHNZBsF5Jo7xHKfSvitxDdcTSq2n/4 WRhQPhOFTozItb9c5rPbss7nnb+IVvMuFyXe3ggs4wkM3y7XuMxHH4W/qA75 i1hKOHps5o8fCpESD4MfLl+937yj08VwLrzhYLgqZ+Amg+GsGn2scT2a0eKg fcXLm2l2mWgpYnXeyzzcsMN+7Z5PZQ/ld8fCjm3M7BXHxE25Pr/cawudY1G6 TjHXP+WjalgL5f1ZjPTZFq4mZz4bzvZvqrsDyuH6QI7yJr+rynFXJMuNuilq 8p8z/J0zptDVw99+kHIqPpn2H0Tn1sklKzh68VzE5hGv44+XZ0fPt+gixXD/ tmz2i/FKprzI2zt7Lr+Bni4CVK7lTOholj8MXuV1MU7XYTMnzVKLN1fFI0Qp azlbrjrryH4QwZTP8o/Lsp7O8zZ3ES3A7nhKYj9dvX7/5p+y91cXb2gqVsvm 5OTJI1ZtPs9VMRDr7mauapYMCPY/gAgVZitjDOar2yGOcfuf9ptPTWuzrvTR 7L08ygOl9oRXwHWbSi4N55e95wDZh+KmlAv9sE53J3pqcrEv//no2R8ygp4c Hr94fvh0n/89PmpN8M1YVltOHkD6YB1XA8xLjUy5KpNZ+UnvKs2eD0U+G4ge UjwmFPflsWK8To2y8tG0fXzPNlnAMGJsoW7IPqLf8wDriouuzRY9ePbiyfGL /WlzO2sv9urHgzevz7PjJ4eHLwZHL6HWZBdfz1BlNZe5HNaROwThEHAdJRMj YbQsF2otylHXxQ1IKVMHS93RX1+AOabLG1ydvb/4A2t8+uLw2e+u8RRrfPb3 rPFU+LoQr/wRazGvVoYbUoM28Gy2iyl3eCTONC4MBsIfOrcjodNH13Q4OHrx EjI4exesoyzREWy7s11+/yye2YugAWx/B9PdI8uyw5OV8unOfXSlht+4vnrZ Fj37x8fH+4cZ3LPmXJNPNFFXGmTfF3M46jLViiFsbqs7/LQoR81qaYpYbjoV DLDVuKyyMo730n09O9t3t1ntl6JrLIvRwfXgw+vzgc1sjYU+HxxTn7n67sPZ uy0GKtQqWE0fRUuHE9H1mYPRVLa3WKr/u54shdMddHjgSJZkN+Y7/L2m4Md6 v4dXO9v9oRL2eJnfFEJMmMeH65ebhvhQzMp8KKp55KK78uxe5KWwvO7K4v5R o1Stonf5p/I2u5LZ58P84aPrNIFfdf7yVftxWxRwkRyUEHbl7YCkwpjA4dGB HFxBi+ignglHrQebnhrURV3novQuy9ng6DT5mz+dzwfqHx2I/hFtBVWN85ns 0Nw8bSm5nshgpNhytKzam8tf3efCFWT3xLAVEShinfJazHxaCu/KprxROv5O Lscv5eC7sm36tcnxcW/AtZi9t9ji63wazdnOQ+/yRtSGe7oPy3olO73lwT9V dbGYQqN9W4lCWyyrLQ9eIOgzhsH802hUromdnePDw+fZaTN1w9aMnI6Fi4uZ 6JDymG+Sv9rPFov97OmzwdPnbbZx+Bwn8Or1D2c/b7tkbQGeD+voyTw9fvrs 8MU+/3ty2uY41X12uxpNs1E+z4bFNL8rK1HgbXhMc1rMFlk1n5VzUUPGd7D2 4Oj5X7/muP60mmf/nK/5Fuyv7zH823K15c/f5/LnX+T/bfMMCcX9y3T73/9Z Pv6ncvvf/2Va0F9l/pLWgf7yyy/Zt4cvNjqVj57LafFKzT0cOIpHKfQsHEqI 5R4WmOjDZ7iPOMIXZFN1dvz06D//438/fnbYOeIXuGrHh/Ggj//4Sb84OTp5 /myf/33R9sT/uHaE/Y0H3iedyqTv8tHD1xzy2V2ZfV/NxpN8OdzyyHkuG7fE 51/L1V2B863veee22G6LSvdzNZPrlJ2evKnrlfz3Xf5AN7Zcluz4lHvZUSRg bAlHpJPvQiTTT1u0I9k/7qPs35MnLw4Pfhstjg5PDg+fvGht3dlYL69IoNUY RrYGdIRyGNRwZ99EH4C2a5t9Fjf7a3ZS5Ma4zK7ycXEzXVSrbfztvciPWflb nv08y38rR+s7GWJAk+z8AcYFZCCcOFjEpZ5sdtTP5tV+dvIyey509/zJ8f6a 5XB0PDiiM+rV2duz9+dv3n+/ZRvLm1KmpC6Ven+W3+/Xo5UagdNm9tvBXTU7 fnZQ1vXRwXFbwsM+m4+MHSrX9Anel3LPXkUKvXYK/ZqtvFiJLTnPLuCalNc2 kNvxM9lpUcCz85lI64xWf+KVepvfeyytnwkF7mfyghLgkdiaYsCKMnHcoTte 3jdnrwZnF1ePGY1D+inTjZCXdKMvt783LBphOvm4Js2mb1/LRTmv4KhzP+Qr PisESCfqeSWmdlt0m5E9Ux9fsSrUGn887vK+HE0r8wts9SN42HXGW7ruxtl+ 0bnRvOqnfdvrZyoST44Hp4eq4PGyPXl6WP0dvrMXR0+eHB1ud9afuZEj45uf KXhC5XrK5DjlvkgNUZcKeCx4p35cQKOUNcET+riB+8/5X6tq2P719f6rjjP/ +/1sIFrOu5WImZbj4gk3tk/VbG1nxdz5Osc6d1JMo1fvvvsjNtZz2bzj7TbW 0cnJi6fCNGBjHW+3YM6D5ULTRNTPegVmNfytGDV1MLqOX2KG2TCvCzO7JqVc OR00vXdCffNVvgS1HdN8fDO4oF49+OuqHA1u87mI3XxYwo390v48kuUAYDAo R6PlzWA4XA5GwQE1ML+pP6wgnYUwi6oeTGf1YDkZPT8+ejos65fp55rR4hZ/ e/biCf8kf/vw3blIdgae8eOzJ0/txydHT07Dj0+f+4+np4f+47NT/+3JsydP 7MfTk+c+2OnpixP/8Wn87bOnx/bj06MXPtjT0+fht8/VBcQfT3zcZ8fha89E dfAfT498hGdPT5+GH5/6154fPn8SfzyJP56GH1+EH2XH/McnRz6d5yeH4bWT k/DA0+PwwLPj8InnxyfxxzDu8yfxt2FTn7948cJ+fCGWf/zxKP54HH586q+9 OAqLf3H89DD+Nrx2fBxHeCav9QaDQeZhwV7velrWmfMb0aIqGFdgEvSWwL4E 4VcJlGweLQKwkibYpwu3TEtwwlqYZN4get7kItiaikzzrzE6E8M82b1oJomf hvYdB6+ghmVTEXWDocUl9WrRlZP6Wve7Sylr6rxzxHTl4+CxnIe8AzNeFi9f l+szIkOPH9fxxwUicHJHuYgpLEYxzETJhOvXPUSyUWJAirqSwfEb9oELE8Zw P62ymVjNmcfrbGz9u4zUz4QPjoq1j2O9M/k/GeOj8PlxOTFlvRYFuLkvZLNU dYHbZHW7ULZZAuOBFck4yRkt1HttjF+knpxqFGSd1drJybeAuyoQ9+6cTWv7 xRxd+2a9ryR2W47Hs6LX+wZHpEEucNbP35T455f/l1De7l+q13v/P/39f4z+ vvkm+7NM/KKYlPNSv/X5G1nKYFxM1ihvjKfkozutY97yxSS4I4sX4T6bVfcQ nQONw/n7Ozj/nAHN4lMzqGF5UVGTl2+zIWChom6mBDISTQ6OvyUBjjx2dXHI wdcgZHmMk6jhQByuGrGGgF2YuT6qGhF1FJzVt3WgE5nFvOD1q/fFGKzn+aKe ysvyIqBO8jk9TpkRb4mGSGR5rR2BWlSN8wcZ2PcAi7wp4UkbPnAOeKFYDjiq nGIDVQ+E8fnz8G755cs+tikoqDuytUKzeiVko8r5qlrVSsi3JdGHkUTMSS1b vqxuM/ybDnvZuNxCyKQvoAPrEmCifF5gtBGtNI1U2CT1ccIYBrREeCY76Ws8 vpGYoAj79bEVrVm05yiP4ihGBrGWc9qp4xpL4WFiWY+r+/lMTh1UkWiHdF2I GSO7JAuYNEZk/jSnIbb7rGiK8b7sey3q9bgvz8gf7qvVbAwCARIVXw1v+ag7 YZHy+FRWIfSQlbchGCDk8F25rJs+PypESkWXpw2brLPzt0KHmeiyo2myjd+2 t5jv7sqdJeOcVXJDharAnsBPZg97ODHj9Zno/CCk5WoBvz8mPBR2tS/TzUFa /eQz+nFs83IlVLFqNlDG7nAFRiXDjjHofE89Q+HNfDQqFjKSmFrdV+W6zXEC vHE6yrCY4EGfVRgddxCD29ZeFbL8cb+9I21iWdsfOYxZeUs8M+bFi2e0ucib qQyQ3+XljO7/oSzhvhw3U155MYUqPNr+gD1Ng2GfFG2bJsvBByYFzmx9yU2g RbtN9ryfz+5D0ezxzjKgsZMtiwmkDS7dXOb7sCjiMXSiOHoD5DLCVyuUR5na VwuqL680OaIK/Uymxi/8uM5fnTtwnnBJyXaoOgBsSFXotaNsNAPIWSHivEvd zCCx0oWqLNLf6FYhV6BSKsl27vU+3YjNVcx31iT7qiaDLmrlHKDTyiKichl5 kzrCI6B4RFCsAehsRS97Ym7POfXGxH7Qibrj2Sp6PcvV4D85QOCLj75Prqk/ gr6LJV4FafGAVR7l4FSbP9zHha7BRx4CJ+71eHB8bPmwYTGyg2Kp4kj64Uw2 7VU4Yap48gBDn1HzGpnbrW8P6NAKi8rv82Uhn/5lumXwkrrF8gEMBwOoW9wm rZxC6Uk2AZOX+2YECDnPIVtv8OA5Hv9mHxEGJZRD4TQsOlM763zTZDxEBK4S 7hXVNRHDf8M1Wg1xzWwWiLkp7x8H1caJ4JIHGTZ+vCCen68ti7+KkG/W6cBk aUoJZPwypy273iKUxyhFr1WbUvR3vd5PPrbh02xsJeDp6hafJza3Q6TQ6y78 Fl6NhFJ6vbNsshIdaFm4wQCNaG0y69lPeEx3NnAwalet37sCBaqtQTxNVany luESLUSlhubGF0epi526XeRazjrWWMlEfgA3GU3LYjKjSw90NIMqN6hFrhdR N25ZCRtMEhgZciNkvKXowG94LcRguM2XZapqKkgJmvMo8ag6wUBbu6tmdwWj AvZtPLDGQpb5REyKfV3QiFdpNFuJ1KiW5Y2865yW2TL1FG9SGwZRJDcACuKs /Fj4H+N6XZ/Pds8v3td7HuYhS1vqIZqYM9xrwtSVYGAKvKvqxsVChwx4brrQ pnUqgEuIRBbjD5u6g/kYNCLbFc6gKIW5yzj8g2Yrwapq92GeN8ig2eODO0Zg 2FGh7rGMswDFiqYpH1qKeFiOHX4RWFoYnbe0FpYI0IBIzE9UY0THEhEnEksU w/8Zy2x/3O77GMpG+xb2ufO4bThS/plXtp9s/5ZRciHzOaxO0wl8YNuAZXiv +FSMVo3a+UC9x4yULctv3yqQUo70MlEsRCJOYRSniKXWTVJjv2uS02apx1++ ULjXRWPiRI4gwPzkfMOe+7f7PUO85LPsZmXoRpgeQY0jBcNuICxTDKN7/ObL F6UUz8PonKE857kP+AueJnJni9egz4V3lhwAUYUh1FVl899GjwN83yUkBnbB DH3hKp0vukI3q+QfDH3l3S+ar8MDD65CzPX+5qNCeQwgeJ5s4ywtUYATXSEd ISE3oZ+ivHOVYAQA8agJ1mNei1mtOi/JUC7BUhhJvhTNBEvC0sCs5/nsgWcv m10Xo0E+FIt1b+NWBp/Duguqxnjj1HwKO+YKzTYnh8o85c1huN/f4b/89OZ8 ky/s82fzJX/5ojYPtmkuNlicYZd+bOUcbNvaU/Ox65wJulUyHv84sL8ofB1D Yzd6MJ/ueFcofJytT1ZLmo/ypkZejHMt80UJt8kIIAoKpRVjMPiOvSNDgx1o yqCYiYSV8+Ua+oILKcQ6ELkajIWXTOU8Mf+YDwfoJ/B2sJcH97lKT/qxXBL0 24ZNwFPIrP6bnJgc4upm2uG3TSWvUNzRFFaHCie6LGYUKnRVYq4LuRz9oG6q VJE/zoqGm4KN+jinQpo3Sms44LAesvz8Rod4AAeEp0Cs8Y8YRZ2aIcvKvYD0 IcW7T2+KUio+kO7A+v4Y+6GjEIbUeJkjkgbHxIPKLyVruWepbiNaL1/frONw 0H0cVHBgQlLcyqzH7kGctxzE0dcIgaZArnDf3EJbl4TJidG5hq2d+/uKhKLL YI5/6PsLoEOBPaHRTi3roX1WbkTnSttKVw66USqnv6+2IC1eWFQ1LY7EnJzK Kc9Fs22SJDFh2mMoF1CuibGPDEkGEaZ5W3PbblQQ0ZAIqmySJxBP+7/JTYY7 qiN2nMZhqoN3gGzoc+4rwymbji9aOXDHgJYjEmIp/+b6iFo8o+UKVg71ZtlV sGcIqTjBZqP1WdrFEGLCoSROt1KkwgKigVeN90oBCL5dqod0qJ8bpdxTxsOr q/m8mIUdsX9y1jQNoeneyv2E32Zthne0MUluVGqpJgiXHwtPLRcZ74yLgVuA Mle3bV8iQvLZ7rvrn/awGwsmkODjS1GUzf9rM+oHPWSxWgrhFAZMSOjaN8pm 1NkvOVcIQRcj0HE6Jk8W866EqapFIX/EH0DSZM0rxhtEIpRgacNilEOe0t7U mzPEIzu/FMOIqO/AKXfljx+uz/d26KIc4QauFjIXuUx95XAfri/7mT71LY0a YbQLoZ1ginRl3y6FHyKt0OD8H6cUPOouSO5ya89QBeK+oDKxm9eqYEZtcA9O QjxdwvgRGxl3FR5wv2tR6aNqMV86jHfbVE1fYABguXzYwmeNFcIAfl81xpKJ iCmHwEgou/5AI5iOITyFQWXh2etxCf9SdjkrgE0QZai6c6FoilJwna+G9qu6 5w5QVjvgSbmi7W+1GV3gbsp9UTlDNks+WaorxEx0obWeJUHeutd+XNZiB6vD XzU9QhggSSb5kuv+Jvu5mK+6K/e5X8QBPn9zhwfXwjxql2Hs78vmh9VQ5iO3 BjsjSmEjCsF/dyjJjahaK0U8ESZxf0NU8sHv1T75x17vgwlnXLX7YkZahsQV vhRuIdMlYMqq38JcM3qZU0Ls9a7kNJqcbqjWFnWuucv3BlsuRppaHFgpKqhk HohjVZUM5TDwL7HJhdFgHf/DId3QnAbZn+Rqv8z+ewtXEzDf8rJw5oMZpc2k OsD7/0g1Ll+OpslreBK/EjKOr+MXB0Mmp/HNg39EePjH1TL7Dn4QzDp6RxXN 9PkbuXa93lnd8g2TUch67ufmxINVTl/Lg+oXsiU4Ao+Mqa/C1QwLyLqvhIMN C54VlTn4NOTKwaJWlTmxRsDWbnO9gSv3Pz47/S/hUxXKK/gHW5+5d2URdMh0 HDCYllaijOrkkFyLwtdHqg0TpZFg6ms2ZRFGldAFJkdf1ByR9my84j9XQxHv QuOr4PcUApJzPjPPIJiLBX98w3SK/t1pjgiTUC92G8cCOn2Q01ZCxprk/v+m SVT6fcTxivD87tkCQrn8lF1g9H9F0ZV/A6Wdkdk4eUdJVOrJArJc+zJUEeYh F9zODSZ8wrjbS5B9jYx01Iaa7WI50P6Z3Gyg8TWNfo8kwtgLiS6DqsM0aphT +71fqCnQkbIJRLA2np5inFRQf1MPADhDaYarC/L0d9kdVE7q1nAepyk+jM9Q z9nvIYdB9J/SNOQ2G9n8rboosq6/AfJ/ru5pi2nX/bYn0PU6sc3GUP4SnQrO 37p3Y4lAaZLzDIIg+BKzeIS5Xvg7hVdWk17nW0ZmFDU4k74JZl4KbHHKE3q4 I0uQmpEoVSCNFInFMmpazl7VZOHXp5um7kHGrM050aP7apyvO5l7pNugLLZ9 NHDa4YYb45goB+yydkZN1jwJIZFtX9PZoJfJp1PTvvuKaWa93j/IvSP6k491 Xo+Mju5rpgTIOd4UCRQHdrcmwPRlMB+At4Nfj2/ewb2rkBvVupNtjC8r+y3o G5Xf0/8zbllQjNtyVq1aLB4xpHR10RDnpJY+/KhMIJoM5NkB2IzDQzXA4lDz 2wJuhbJGPA++CRtmlKvzK5/B8AaCZDGrHuTFEb2ZILTJMpdZr0ZqzpnJ9Lg7 W9TQWTWixVp9YtkPXP2h5W1jaKrcP8sGgndzJvCmk7LIPbhjndMOpMUXDo72 D/v+0xE/wH8cqyGQmhTX55dy47fgQiGLmM57fvltnWiwnotBPt2WYq71DvwZ YSD68Sd0C6ffhvtKP4CfvvYLRMomo/d6P3V17bDz6lcTGyKBdP10cTkYUppE Rdyp2Hikf2qFEjKz6l4tiajSJ5/X+X/+PK0Wg+HDAP8xcYu/IXD/h8wGM28X LZwGfTAgXTIc+N3UOhRCgidgJGRsiAlqLvK2GG9LBOPhqBYTG7Bk+logj11D 9Bg+at+MZMOxU6Aq6NzZq+C0vkyd1p+/MZ817ZErIWPubyqbsAoN7l34KYgm p09+MXWe8tGqzQCfBYSQkDx/HVBYhbtyddrKDSGFwFtwCrVddHcgy1rdobI7 LeBpU0UFy5Bbx5xNojD6cBQDSACPWV83oB994yK55Em4JEUgihJYGA7nk6el 5Lfw3mo+K40j9/vPGMHNP2pqUt2Z1SNT+KrPBD2ob0gHm6/vmP8ZSC8gwO4Z mpS11SqlzCUyihXeENScqcmCk98yLsLcNu5VeQvlHqj+PGPdpgHcYfGdm7AR Wt2kCJ6YAMJcNYtVw1nkpo9rqLQzUm5xF+xYwKEt/WrX8Y8+MLEiclkB4NHn hZJ/QKgI68uziVigFtKIZ5L47C0a5IFKbpncEVZ/oCCkjB461boLBrgqXrtF JWZdHsfhxn/+HIoCkVX9u9ZI+PfsF16uT9kPSqj/nv2wf/z0xP57Ks8N8L// Ouj8b+0Xnf/Jixc/X8gw2bPjQxn+5Pmh/EPEQfZuuKjlx8P9U/4oD8oTi2z3 6M97eOL4OR7HS/+ePRmc2FPyj+PBib9wdPgcbxzrGy/4AfxO/vV08NxfkHcH z/yV46OneOXkI155IvaNvILfyb/eH5xhmMPBsU4OFqj6LqZ69oxTcxfHis+h lYs9F60KaRg7G7BSOyFq1NXHU/xP928eRiJwt4LawatHXhvvg3m4NNAKptlG IoE3yWiiAWEBbQBBWl2A/jVYa4ZPvUfZMHUBhftXjN2KaNQxrZ5kc2Oo/3g/ e2OhVhI1o+K6X/A70B8vauAtYA1auEMd0XW1Wo5UQ8up9KvvXqMtil5gOC5I gEJ0En/coKb1fuuwupuYy40H6g2MOfy+u7DREtIrb28Lb50IuxWkZdk2wBXT FaZ1y4tjXhQ1GZJzTrVI/b1/HvvUYhNQwRo7VQ3r6p/1NWMv5OcdTYQB1IFx JIW4vkkAQP558kmU2nJKqhN+4+fhkEfSFdFIxkDj60ELNLuhPUBYH87DlMdk gVsmry+RNalkXvJmwV8Lnuoyuke/SOB9CvyN4N4Ys7AjMARgCkVTQBd0XItn KtcXoVh+gi7mkRJ6CgdC9P34xpTu2GxnXNwsC+XDE/lhXN32dyJYDE/W+HOC jDavyy2C9w4xCBQli35NBLMYiyN5VNe+tLXvPnl6ONAv7uk4LUCYenYQmUNs Laern7OSK7TbwUjtNFP5Q7Y+/R2ItCcX1Xd7boinrhF3aUVKVY7EyJ5q8gSO KyQlnL8Fb2zKPm4go0lZzMZ12GqPAUAD2c/+Wcwod70I61gmVoyoRNNqnMI6 i3tWBVJlmkBfqMb8V2CwPMVloUhpuesm8Qs7tPtpNbOPu7cHG9vCO9vR4t1a WRRDH/JpqDCjaqlK7tjYDZzZOjdQFM5L+LJSLF0uu58/x8RMDRrDv8Eoaij+ 2jJXDXHiwF3OBo50mum7Ww83W8wAJ7cT/q97GSN/QpvdAery0zbaeEraoHkC pmT7YWc6DooR/CA1UUgeQccOqkNhRI0xLs3NU7jwVb0hEKlFsOp8QYE8iz9k P8oBIV5Lfm4FgRI/TXzUQgMQlHoCI9QVDpuYYCICsFcj+bBQ4LaZBaeUPBI0 v0n2xHSYamm5BqjANFFW+/kzCwELJ1Jr7PL8XH4O0fFx0ciVt/SQS4iRV1XT zIToUATNKpDB/UAYnJgrhViYKDc4ir/+YszCb2AiiZZd+yf1wNSG4shVfll4 YKZQ9VoUcKBRo5eOWJS6pEkajhn7qY87s0sm1sYYJdzfUH36eUeY/y4o2vFz ZsT5IuAMCbAVODzj9jVqlrU+p6vlodPo5oaFl4ShwzVcq84+rwgd1H9wjgHd 3pq6w36hGKYTuCVKg9BFWABA7COAimoYjNTLzO7hWFQUP9GIuRjQFOpilTJJ CjeL6FePEhefpjny8qF4uIjdd8Ct7xq+LNszolEfzyA9HEP2IPkiCVJP5INM LRDhsUAO0T9k7ZEZAjXrXS/lmhsyjGEgi6J1gCbthCuOKDjydPuhUep17BKH yJXxb6s6gLKi4rgphyAFZlHpoiqrzL1anxLdg5ET0xre1wyVrpvnhljLpd1c i8I6Mmt/fb/ovUnZmYFsNgRd1WNrFDAQheGjAVS9pl8sRRk1mKG6Z7Yqo4qn w861NkXJuJVdY9IynVv0P/7B3TC01r6qZ0It8C+V8XBqNU93F1VTuEYBw5ul KfayHdTLEYm0k8xAtf2E8KIRHumHWziHkSvKrqOnErTebV3IZdTECs6Fg8rE VnOC4Qn30FgzjbqQn8W75/fcwMW+rHn2l+q1w/b8aBCSTiMyprozqYdm2Ijx 0eg3hetWrg+8XBBpakTcV4QV3k8fNrDFTTSENXBNyYLu/UYoA6ErP9SoUSUo T/Uw+FQcko61qIzV34ZD7EyHXwJnABSvsNJtCFAl6koCoS3nphUrqAy3wkB1 uXtqBgYhWXPxGxGFKwUdHKrVpu1IZ2Pm49pwH+Gjn/WBDsBvQ4xlCyeZIxhE OJYBSVRNQ7wrBO3KSTeLiXjnEKelq2BDOtUG3tQHS7GAcRdRoq5TQFXV4Wrq ccIxcMIip2GtEUph9/1e2K9YCnX5N4YvFA6UAQ7Ut6+1Jk+LrP67mH2cgB4S I5UJ1+lvX11N32qHu9uJzIv7vt0oheYSYzuflMvbcG5lvfaY/GqnzifFTnCZ zKv4aVsRt7I09/VSSzytGpln6mZpp6ilkT8Kmc3T7G9ZKrLzDHjV4sg0Te6D em+sKHpfy7Q6SHdSf0U9GrvECZoLrG/7nsdku9+TKzIZnyvVI9V8dd4yPREG cUbuf0mSflrS2rIYiznhjgD2RSdmmCP8FhppM3xjNZSPE1hrgEOTK54oU5fN KtpJpZVnSyVOzkCrpteYMccM9Xo9SStOeJmD4xVtvSVVDvsJT60DlNjgECmA k2tPAqiWZFZ7fC9BD9C3hqxYeb5YyF4Ibx+HwVStVZQliAbMSfUk1VzjXwJN m1vlQzGqREj9rWQRN/UlWwIWKgoTeqBWB8YcPIi2ObB4N8FMQXZAP3W5AWml rsROAoPKNCKlGcydg3pnES2r8EHjotQ930yiCthUC61+owNY/CnwXOFh3An7 a3rmqtRv/qJqyi7IPZavQadWTDAn5LU9E+M0Ku4BF1G6wrSY7TlDoYL6N1qb gT96lo2ZDoWl1sHBOXGu0flOiBszJc9sx5Tm3AGEo8DfpkV+V1LpyMe0IHjB TAUhHCjc5L4fCIUjyXWmpui7658oItKEOc0rU9u11MhfKxuCkwqJW/t2hupR DQgk9VXVVbhMjvpcph4y6nZr+6ABHw242D/W91BZf+ezYP5Cz7McxGjuueAn T/RKM03coelOcROpXNIvOFuAnWGl1dkuC3L2s9Pv+9nb69eaQLxH0gJuhSkC TpdWVoE6vtKE/wGYoFzLzCalPxkU0JKgYBXzm4Y+rpgbB3eNcsGlXeYiXHxO Hf77TdlygXSgQMXyI0gj1CnhcpTMWlIOM3SOYIUgFloqF2J9sURIPEJzsdkT 0Sly7e2z3zsLmSw6t9L0MWaCctpq4Sheh/QFbzj2uK4WUzKQkONm/BEuqwe7 y4QXOrf14iCKJcuI6wc2Gbt9K4ZgWTNBnmcxFZam5JQ/gF5/4rjpUgAcreYA ZWokw44rSS9E5sY/dDHVNX5HXULrD9ATaqjkVEUT6ovdL3Zfn7/fM6QwSlp9 +aJuHdWX9zCksDkAR9SZb+F2fAF/s38St/HQFCHA4X9PAVmq7NxU1Xgh2g1e jksO4JikSkckpGCo+dXqa0smdRW5Ervx1WZD/rPTIeZQfGJFUAvTwlE8bmVL tSSEnWioKMK2YXRysYGGJ11Fzamr+kevWwso8PkbXBzRVb60ogttb5qauoYe +ELOu6AOY25YhUvPHnqab5hmDk/o1Kkrt0hk9nVj3tAm+Z7mZdY9vxRqn5Vx PdEH0iovEgIAk9KccoHZ99Y8ggkmJca5cC97cXQdEJU89Ow6kjf6yvjy0WH/ 8PCwFx+399M5zh6yuC+t0Ey/R5TIJ1pK8tjzw+x7OFdVdxhCOsJ7RpxhS17c 9oBfKYJlGNzJMj2ND8fgOuLvrlq521RDAQxpQsbN8kUIatK/bypBzB7tBRit A/3wMq9+lsJfzf5qn0Mr43LtUFQLULKWsza9l4TLXCA51x5DpvE6Y+ttvvbm fpaFPOhhEfwLzAdRz3bP8WJ26O3Ebh8dCpCVFaTwh3yUI1vls156x2VpBzJ1 TJdcyKypdI7qciQdo8+gSi1Glj81RSwMEF+A+DXwgp+mrca2RC5Sb4u7m9W2 LHqMSYPfuivYBtGTgdDv5WyepgnAMvYAZ56OR5xTkY9DPtCAtzx5Qn3457aj Vo5beIntsfASVoDQS20x8RDvYLKd5uiLeij6B6GF6qFJlBuj1bzZ8i5ghWDH fq5h02awaUiLNMDcgyTfGkBFVGWXiYB8SHUh4Nk+zh5UJyoJiQ4GXOmeYJXD HdByAPgFQOImUDkqAiLMFVyLnjoZ4m0rvcbdOgk+6qAtDaZehpsWJEPVLEQk 6xqH9I88dcslZcT8o2GHuEFTK7AxFDNvUtLo9o9v2b8ha/HCr32DdO8Yvtfo OCrWqzKWz5KI19xfV3/JRI5gGiw4e6qT7gS9wZ/wqluswGAUllAIqwXshHHM nSf3E1tg28eBieCzCxfFdOfqMeF8HGmqvaMpoMNpjVH+xBDjd9SeKhZlzSgL r5V/GtuulE10vVGIzwN69dAKUijR867UFfsfEirB01bdFZsbXJvMRIEOuoSr AVlgaQrHfmSYxrRNBJPOsLmQ74OmGoD1R74D9omxAL3UUO+K9VaD65p5dynf O99KRHO1jOz7ojBWUH7U+6HczIKXQYP0XFkqywGMDtPHPI3tF4tPweCwbHij vKVtj+aSFnR1WvW6cEMTXtQsV0WMOXbZs61JBhuvlAdPJgMgEFXhVs5WhlQY djTky7yklk2BLpDCaV9PJmzYIz/+UC1CNets9+3r7PKHV1p24MJ1fi31ZI1/ 6h3LX3l6fAzYK0bMXn+SL2ql5uyV3McbdX8mTS3evr54dXa9Zy+j2iteVisY MMM0MNLrnbkOQi5HSGhf8auyUqZwqN9Oi2EpqW+tMKT4HIoA2QagQ0KJEQIj U7tdiaifQIgTmmP5jML9kIUCK7QQCyLwVCRGtKUtw96+ynzEZuqB3iBb1L9S GHR47gaCGuCq/5hbwPHENu5qHkeW3frFdY0CnXUL62BKQPMg7V+aADUcK2ww czhZGwXN+yYa8w7at+bJyvWQo1HFzXygTUhpN8LX3bO8Wv9l9As8yA5aVnuh /nLzTqhKJDrWFTVG81O5smLX23ISsvuCsX5Wxhw7JEe/NKmqBsmjarUhtWlc FAui3W6WWmExLWipqavRwRcn5TpacATpulGjxcwNLi843yylpGvUIOw6KMhT yxqC09dA3/dY6aZYLqul15SxKqqyFW/mo3KsWdP0M2oRCcIlWgnFfN2166hD RhfZamGWgyHI0gOzwFniswt/mVbaQw6fW81VdQ0Rew+YgQaokjRdqvm2tqo9 XYiKIQ/km4jGte1YU4OmLL8UCvMBKfO31BFu4RDkpgGi0nC3kkvooQGftkFP 8DzBM67F4HCBdtGMzSX0+RkjsKGGgk82rwnn6PPgXIwjSjGm8jGrW0BmuWBh M81KNevKx8N/w9JtU2Pyoh0d/UI4CpiDhmqJ+mz2Exna5bJCnUnHszh3EJus BLXSeKMKBz3ACFpNSLO+lNEYjCxCL/wXyxbkMEJ1LETBECyRaryWpTsuRTBn b27BaeNtCMhHmwb7uCQGXReSvh3QnvSvJhNjkcXJxKv4uGfTP5qYCfinTd0R 5Wox73rMJQHy269SPH+YDGD9N/ntqgm/82aWS3X30W1J4qcvewRe1pfNHoI5 8kRUIkFdFdIiq0MiVF3HTCI4E3FucyJekPb6mzCvmBileZoWqYz5k2k9ShSz gUYG7S3cXXkArmKvqmFJsSCwn+aL3yOxKIJch6aSFax0jd3jxYW/2FTOK9th fF681VjY3EzrWtZFcAkG93srp0YuDjHQKjm1wKXYU7er235w2QZNXodujahK s1lRXv8VtvN95cq7PghzAylf5V1h4Z1L0eKgrlKbO0tD8Z+/WRwvvjByHWNL wZJq2Wo7HwpNzXPu/Ob19XehdSi0G/8M/pvtXh5f7qFxQZKB1s/YbuZ5n12Y dszBieL71DaCFvmqbK6BmkS4BKcwzcltU7flCIRNLDzS+eoFMuC8XJIMftr3 LcRBrebwa9MF6Pm7qtqGTXF9eeapwrcsie01fd9cXWYjMSSrW7LUoVsMnf7r Y/bgTAoq26i7P1dvNMPrhnrKnlNM+r7l4KtAc1YqpADbpyFMhqLXwFgItHXv HK3gkNNNMU1UnoIqWlVagnZQzqdFyIN9uFWfaT+b5HfalTlx30VDZ7fYv9nv Z2cXV2/7kQU0rV7hTDlhC43nh8f7R0cBz4/6SrW5/BRCgict6ApFjRhcvT+b Pk6+HTSD8PtonOT0ZifqUlKPb+BQhvQSOGB4TRlHvaBJQ/xMqJGs1zeh0GWB ICwQ4kVA/awWZvWgOrONTlHjw5gqlgzj+f5jfYHrDwfS4Uoe1PSCHPBDsmi3 O/AQl5aX9d02mbSOiVGsZBIxUxZRPZaxKKCN1jKqZrRBv1je5HOFjMSElEz1 IYvQOZiWECResI+w8hEi2pG7qC45Db3txDio/G5/J9No8r0i6hOtMA0vruNP Wp8PkHtGOu2JsP4wx7qiD48aXzqt4GOWS6brMNMNUMopxUviKrA7fivqgVdk DdyGpN3K66eyGYthWKpB6rvr5MM4tIpKymqeh2IKC3t7Ix8zBdGojy6BRDoi ryBY8H2LIxoFBg3EoBCh7oID5yuWRkr7HbSg6KJP36u5lRl6T1XINhHGWpng 4KzbrZW8PDPedqBWLSDwtIV7SFJfkyJharW13UcGuffG8tsn2fezapgjni38 UDQdWT+SBFVYHB+q1n3+489vLgZHL0Tr0afMCwd+jE+K1rVE3sPcK6VMVw05 lEuNdE5JNNfPZIGso+U8aD2uGMWzXhQVvFNojuC6hZq4sKCS7hIYSDE39Wha VTPWzWGYhNJO3etadS1W7GmxvN21wg9rwbsONxSZhZovcOZBWvRbHrPsDPVU gECDk+pVBVTK7puzV3ugAVhEYW+tZ6MdTR31BysJ+Oz0yxfM5D3Ub2wLzkcL h2tDAzqR0k4NQR+596GWqqgQyU4fqfuOFfCiTZFKlGkC1ZiSQ2EXA8adMru1 DUrO6A8h/lJb3UEsxjS7DVV6Rbbk9/4Y0rDeqTLd+rPTCe2K2OVSCLC0gs/t 51Nyi6m1MvgHn2osM+J4CddmdOhwfK/NGZhdamBk980/ifJGZZ2QYU1OFfb7 0RgR6iKUN55C7N8x5Soo+er5Uk+Xh+Og+Pdjioba6eyw+l9QSUbNChsIyUtK 7+YmNtxOm7ul9hzuJw6WpVcH2VmTXbwenL/5J3QTnH9E6knfaWU2FrbPGwhF 5Z8ueVVRM52aHKwccw8vVvYSpk56VOvGhZGPkdpudHH6tlhMLuSTcJxY2BDf vs+tao/q2kcvXpxi/tfkwRT9yjyMr4y71gijAR8HON7BtLJKbuvFXWwsmVz0 yNqe8laaU1a1i/uITI4oW2KU205cE2JjYZN0JmiHathq03I2XkIHb4xRacxB 5asKScdO6azSb1IV0qQnr1ISyL+cQM7gCbWK4mqczOAtobM7TrNdVbRVwsC2 Oj3Bcf5A1Eg7ayL0SigmjilgaZ1NVxGjoLSfXt2NGuf6Cem5aaIf+4Y2CZfY /fnyvRWb7ljG6eCoe2SCBILVE1qJiaAXh2aIsoqzJpAgtSSV3zKCslh3NS2m DzW3lekoq6acWcnEaLqb/r0QG07ob840BZwlUIeiczBUY42GvOiyXVxVz+D8 ndNppCpOKC712E7JfhhPS7mk6gqucovVJiQyVjWs8TdrIVoPCPLq5A0vDvz4 iNhtVWQ2ATUTaJDPez2f1fArA8BREEbg4ZRWtqpj75ODBNOQBS/emj/8vB0H /fxNqxhS2sNBjZhYR8n7Y+DAd25mYh9BbeQPO4qQkjtkcEizL2pHAzDUFvVv 1oealZPCPbxmAIdK466Ah0LhOhn1RSf1PxQZaVRJoPomN2wr7d7ST4IUDvLf dUtf8a52TxoHKYUlKtbFAFLQoztJ3qFoleUIWbEq/HMvIL/LJkIxrYuGOQAP xkVSwDomdGkxM3flqVlAHqH4R/IeChF+MilCz0IjjGElpcnPL97jMnusR+vb 1rHsYChGumSvYBON8swSHDexqfRrvuOWptPArnZ10+sbJ20BVsHTSvGYwVMN p6Zah8PCsQB05ySq14ZwV8K3KIzXS36xfdV6VEj+t6uBTiztKFMk3548mz7F 6vjdZw/t4RpPz2FAdt/Yjc+ong7lR2YtxjBfquYeXE/+txsQhBBae+qS5Lzf yvh+ez9/E0r2sNdEZ1kp7iYkqzoZT03xsvBynrXvsF1Ta7VFxw8JWVeCko2V V+sMYdpohuXlLdeq6CA988CYfXqsTBDqTOtVD1Fh66RXGOY21lY3OojlVJqQ gxRKykcS6nDNdqm3friC6ySh5chiJINVnPOkf1gQaUnwvssz6KRSFqgBHbPV 9CYPxfpkPJM9gOmzJOTXIlnM9B7Z2xGUWRCjCdvDvH5e2C3Eucum7Sr2U1hf JLkHfH8GOGNabJ4kJLMemYLJgkthslSrjS+hRWwZK1HBEprQKolZBg5KYo4h tksUkmqe4MtD4Yi0DLXhXMilbIX9zcfUyr3gUinyA/psSf2wBY1zeaJ/6has 7bi03lmRqagSRcQnbZM3l1GnUhMLu4c/+yyV/rWKAj/8IVREjPiAy1DS98O1 mEuK1j09RVF72UGtCewFfo9PKfMpVtlWhTW/FDWtmaLr47bq6zuo2aJ7IbWt jYNEVlNMa8AVssJt2JdfUsBQSOCjJzndLEZBtrMmq3UTKiXwnmlWfqTMtZw/ K2oShmO9mU3MN/SJsM1iwoHo1oUNH+bRBoTto8CtFWAnZE/dRBT3LeV4XC28 e4ccgTm1qJHAV0lxHGQ7zw7delEj7ru2f4rUWA3FOp6z3PkkxHcZ+RUFNyQd 8nPeywJPIHxg1Sr6qphpjQDrTxyqBFhf4VD95L0YjgNQIgnRZIox9mDLt5Zr SdbCmYSyYj+epFkPi7Z6DfvoLyJCJbCBQUjva+EEOPp4SYlAPyMTSzpiqa2G WnkelcWpeFLW6I161tV9FKSpoAbBDuW2weVlIVDYM9jY8Ouk6doU7akN1dRA pTYc1lh4Glzpd8UU/edrBfasljdaUKsSw87KDiRJ93NlSVpOJNRb3OZmgzGR ngYvcncnNNLLCqo3BA0ziVa7CGpjiE31l4UaUr3irXy613u77TL9z9InomLk 9bbXdATwFb6i7EELTykaJ+lt6wCqxnpWAQ+XXf+clInMzoLcAkqcmY+ewcZ9 nFi16K/XWshd8YoqLm7edOeGgeHGpClgmyNmwv24dk8OYtfWpJT1bc1GgN9W qy2gleBQIbNak99KvCqNIoMEY4dEQ8T4lvOWAeUYDLrGAdVWRLqCreTuMFW5 BXs1x7y1ALEK6aXWow5eEteQhI2hAtk0wQ+1NqdLuYmE7NJYp6IlqDcW2ZuA W0K40wWUu5TnYpAIvSy996tqkWmFBDKacEQGDZX7XTI/Vm2icTE2bLrplSnF x+mposSvilwTjjGZ1I4fjQLUVSb6BCybLyyADjz3WDg2TWeh7un2wM7I7A0i f/tp0zIvBehYDpunY9EnqLNoSEEKMZcfAWFSLbc/HLJ100KCXutgwsKL3phM Ua6aH5QnxeSa1bwIwJNy6Wb6fradyTieQmOXq5qqqMWrWqqnjIXGqpyVl9Fm zw5QftIZ2AvQUVhs3nt2f3BBG7IF8m1k6nTTTYYIuqdDTlnWFlw1Kfu++8Pb KweDPj8+Eq0AYl7DLdDj0m8ylYGIn11rgfv27QDvWzFbLdiPCERVD6azGjVt MSaL2uJsOaOdC0PmnPnxx9mEQsvZ7sXZ1Q+cGIoMDfCvPzw1DiEj2I9QeMxY 8afroAufaz0/VVsTNgEV6RYG0vm7s+/2Qi1jnxd+K/OKJcrqBGamngOYTESV a1A5xeqpQYgeJLXGSN2v4XljrjBq3TGuazRdIS9T3sO3EUu4WcnwZrHe5xbF ilYoiQIunNViFtFs0THmal47Y20/+8WQ3zk/NKB+oWthZE1vun6mtDunnXUT EgznxbukneECwG7lam600vRhPse6ct4JmZ1pkxhgsP5goecDqzEIYJiD5pTT jYEW0DxNnEZSk9CCn9rClztpx7fSSgeE14I4YK2kc9ktiaOjVOkMtBfQ8iKY 0Acosb5gqky1A7XdGu+muMQcZflWBYbnG8r1FaiLK7of78T3r68986Bv44Cu fSDvk6tDeEl4rT5gExXOz2imHTlHFcsf53t+/Tpacwkpdz6C1Du2N/bKAkaP wwIb5bpLOORW2cF0Aftom8rvx17I4WLojcSh2OgmCDtzcW84UtnvikjZipBc HtjNW+6zqxqq+KjLXPa0rJXw7ShAMz542Sq1+O7d1eXxoVkr2Xux7tZV1PeP 2XyPqqk5nzXYj1oe7eqmHc06XI2O2+9RzZUYS0efajGiW6LNvMegnlVwaHcK efv+YHOMy2z6jLqW0n5HYzlpb23uzjlykXlxH5SjTUNR4MaEw8BNuGETWQOt NtaZt454LNaaNFcKS7A6OAY1dbwU/DyO/TXTX0OC01R1Suv2E0iolyd1T4BT 2FNrBBDs0a2HQ5JPopDJSluaJQ9sDEUITnJXEkI/gd16L/EwMPlkHX4d4ai0 s61KjubkwCcUmlsF0LvqHPds3RB6EgROUi1ciY76peeYdZJwU0kRdJzAKj2H o4uVIdm6mRsyCdLSF3HiOknV/tRwpbvIOrTz5v44H1zQv40SVO7q7joO2vGk 4PdgYbti0OkbG2qK5R7ayWOyQGv/q84Hy9rrzBpNDx8Gtu+m6EXlLp6HS8fo DQ6Fg/SS8y1aOgraIFDf35DPlxOt2Zs3wSGdaitRwe6UO3J44aQxCET8EA0x dMZGOoUuvJU7s2HlWqdvxTizeQRamytWOjwIXu0sHo7fOu2ubE2TPUK+Rrn0 x887CYP764cfzbpS+W6SqJk0hx0B5KTbqgtEh735zcA7SXZ7AEOHswwdekSD tQzrFsLFUQCxT8oms93x/HrgnY+o5yWchbJULeDdes7NNo1dCpdcLdJGRE2S vJUcOvf92zregliTGegVVCVyiLDnXCSpWi03fOuUfDh1vkCLGBoXYASRLuFi g8Gkpch4rdrgvHa3Q5adD5QMZGfnwANKWBNLRWGu2y8kOxq7jqaJjBFU7lqO 8rl0bzcJc6ICS386tL8x9KxaC6JBMTIebCOvZN+Pv7po8fp3sYSEGDGhFa8m B6ByY6eJXLz6LLijZy7/bAbahpMbknaDUeRxlzKtbpBqSmk1cbskLKVi6uDH omDBgVvUbHAf/TrcNUnwi7W6bA6W1LHpaiRw8Haxd9xBFc4mAu4geop72RvZ l0Fl//zC3lh0bCvgNWpsgViDFeVxvKSbtmlvlr+DQooWWbObsqnmpDktytlM ObC+oI3QWpAcK5U2yctlyIG3VrERbxarZriaFXoxXHdS+6wcmStZIY6YW0Vw PKtv2ZOYo5d1tVxLNWsDin+C/2f1zdiATZN6HQIVv6jVBVGj/oEJ7WrylYbQ Dg0/W4jT2JzDEilKVHJXW1REdUUzy8xYOJTuUOVFPQTzutBi1SCJCe0ZTQ6w mO7YoAFJVFdoFOv1S+5Th4jHpQYYPX+gBqrGPBIY6OpNgr0M7p/bOcR+KsyX Kut2oXQUPNNdVWcfCh6iFkbhWo4NEyK4sclAVGf3k+/FB03xjzhcH8sVNwN1 oy1hq1x3nDJzqm2TIuV6+0x9TvfJe6G0O5yOupsQqnJuWBj5dtyZCIWJFWoS SXDW8RwmasLuDhrYh3/vpBW+8KcdrewdSV8X5K15yZ0td0yDua3SvGnam3Kt KFlCs5WYBK3J+jCXk6q1KmxUN81+MbIWo7PKZ5yaGQH9dRWM2K3GUDwsxmj3 LhFt8SXLywxCaIdyeqcfVG8vcgj3JvMzHhnFOLLG4hVHpoN4zWa4f2V2qZtW HbB6i3hqcjB0UuSbOryFrknakowl0eweRNQV4xZm/Wu/i9ovjhHjptqjlRef S8SDcEwV4gqhCJr1iqB+YH1aU7StNFltxauNnIWwrcDy5u/3k9uaATNaa21o o11GPPLYmo5eqj7jLRU0kGFTNrPCy4U3OXG8u/mtlvz2CprxpscZ+F0PX/D2 U4p+dynUhCCQlqxM5h2s03gNAD+JkL6N2w38nEd7fNOT8mIsCbLQK8CSXHx+ k5K4G/Bh4TO3hajOIkDOL3/quwPfSvlpjidl/Zr+BKGfNt/oVhVn/UyHgLQr ya+39thQLjV01XukI0iazlVXA3Po7szy8RgpOmmjI0s3ptZBhm9lXtJq8d2O 0m7ixQrQm26xM26lnw7FGkUKjVoY4rrLghAHUnlNOqa3b9ZoWQKwOV+AVs4c d5RxnzlLno8tBM4GyUmicSRbt0N1h9r9ZJ1OVEDXIY0jbIN8ZVXOGm8A3LRf Sv3lhDvHP+G6KgpQ6wq7PIznk5QbSozlsP0BKMotaw8XzN/ETo3hLzvpECgN I0I62h5aZVe/VwlwuUP6V8GvlzSFa7fPSSTphqdTDmtWVhEqHVtQiduWtjjo FIdWFdgQeqqvZJAD4YqXCZotLWk9fFhj+XXikUwDViiRAs9tO1aUFNVlMpr2 KozOznUHbdLmM5RciXPKQ+uyRDsxWVUSWCPr0iYnrKhizQRC9W/FBwv/xs7G jHmPV2mtZ5xGUGfXu/LF9/Za69vAhK0it7x1YFlyXjQ7VdnC0ICYQQkMZT2g aowNuKsFsrRyMo1X9a2qzRQzSlQsioKiOmXwN6wbVEnJ/Uqb0MC5nRv4FsnG gbgYIkXvbNZ23XPnm19EZ3OhpFyC6E5I0GtUYFWwHszf6mzJGL/6JHy9G3wQ 2VlwgvlTWC3tc6dR189YIne1wMnnNZvABFGYpnqxRAumlVYHsunSUU2jT4sM uzRMbTOTFxGtb/lVXvKVQjc1jlsuFTWAiEFK2Jt2t0zr7lkTYqJDlBM4Ei0t 2+vVKW0qiV3KvYnulPRgE7QkVZ67krXRgjattX1rTT90vzdudESiqy9yN/AU KrpBEwg2oS6X7jDvyJxajAQmcsvpiUZ1L9iYHknv4ryTImQWUcFeVeP84dsI EJuPa1F1Ckcqt40OBW51ZqG1V81GjbDSNQeMpdbrZqQay37b32O0XfutHcr7 k8ydH2qsmJmtpIOKvjLDAh5WWgfoY2CkQjdksJXqYAyqKz5vKxuwUZiREi5l tOGYj9a18ahruU+N+iJCoUOA8/Olx5ipfCgg3/rK6y2G0WjAgmj6J3trIYld hN7Uld3tF5aP6529vrkjyZrMcEL4OXKazui1N0pTfLCjkSwkkNiE8exowAas jo4HTHKpiCsQ23kSqTpDUqN/c/f86uwNu1pdkbtteuQKj1hjPDyu9gekbogC kOMkvm9zEWvNZ8ugsHq1WT52TspoYZWGHjb4jPtWcUpuAyaScmJ+VdS9vEy8 2qb3t89Jj4HP+9w29cLBHfTBkktka78Ka++8i52vVJfF+aLwH4sxeYGKjYun 00kPR8ZVd7TtoPcBht8r4AQ5paAmlnXyUCg1aQ95TKzlXzPZpP3dGYNgUlIz e9jvvZmEjBeiWglAr5au4sYhrdwZLo5aLF226YXqEi+qee81DrNL5TjUm2XH HVE+AtYIxnIR6mmq61ATU75mI0wUq0N4HPfFhoeyXM3KMUIs/QjswKXzJ7R2 VO0tctttRpLqku2IXFp3FCeqlJKyYXI9df2ZK6fU8lbMtjCHv0OMA+0uQw3v oQYib7S7eoBiWT3gxD4LRImKMEW8FrEzcqxdHeS/8st+u8iRS/5QCDjAakpr 4myrDzRdxzk6UuNqtYCn7Apc5dLAxeAol+YtoIlSb96qZcgnyD3ZGyhP2Q3h T56ObU1+h+U41gNeH00kEhUMXEeN27anJIR5cXVZ7zkbYNwDekdhlefjkehn EpRi+kXlNvuaXsHtTaaqyv66pyq2cTECMFVusfLCcqb2vEkw1Ikekr1ayVat gJo7ezU4u7jSjuaoPrwSYntQ2KXXJHHTjlK9GFUGaQjFWD2JIpYu1wJrAJYY GkDPuPS0i1Ksx1zTaMztQV2jXi3hotac6rayoQUjZJ/axbEDb+zmtRzYwSad BANfch7sBUnWsh7zxKNRzmNzaKYIq4zUvyeWWER9eum8tjJoUw+ZjwFgHDLW gxgGd4k9n0KgPukkZ5UiHmwNhtRJ1Bkga7RFozmJQ7CqvaKIZaDyr1zlt5xd TLpnAKXBZn+b/0ZBzPqBdO1vOHn5pddG4EhMvB51U0yyOzFqWhcCWgs2Za7D sLQLoUf52HtMJmi4AIIYWuVSq28nN8rr0taNaPVFt7z958+vXv9w9vPrkBei /2QlU25oqE2hBUXKTvU6ISVVuOB4hbxhfEj9A3Eus4coh3JNTIlwldU8/Zup zYm6LFexYiDJNsMwy5GvwGzFeVodGEdrwz3bggi5mZ7skX5ZgZSW1qNIbii0 N1aIzvHaqEpOI3Ml3CUiNFir+y6naWkWF69f09B1qok+x6fPv3zZi+fE4wul msukc7IzUUXxWAVlLKbfO1NprWYCYzFuO5gVUloMw0RB6q8liu7V2duz9+dv 3n9PIN2PsJMW8RJvol9TXG7zJfINW/g1Bf/jRoaSnBO5irVSDIeBYh4dPNxU L7eDQ5yUc+GdsKp4fp8/n1189+HspwvM7oyR3ZAE6Oi1kVa5WdLPT/ZeaWqP TqGvx3eFKiRGvt5GdBqs+qAvtN24ns9ELTeAzKhubluS5mKSVFV3Dq1Meb7t 5lnRk+xWZyCANS3W3dNuBY7BvqpFFMwUIKpMtBhJPwmEbSonoFQ91qsbJSFV cMu6g3aVL0eh2FeAk4Tt974PEf9v/fq00mS57DLNfov3WbJ6PPwqd8FgDXxD jl01TxNBya7OLoVXgfaimFdbyCDhKmyHLMVPoT8q6s69a0tULladFNbyW1Sd xsz28xCVNsmPwjz00biHb5A0D3GcIxvGJhiJZbWyO+hagsI7HAOjvmRVWNLq Vxs7MNpl3++9suhHyN/4/WBeWaRCVdm0mfxJXQ7vApe2cnGPfGg7FnChIrFH y1XjpTVaje7CnJ3nJiGVDfpOupV3+WyVNP1+rC8gGskqgzY9zzWsfG1CrXcg y5mAHzhCKHYJNhHn5ZVHHLakLobYRMWpJe0jw11qZZwTsBQKTTFUYhlK4HaN pUTYBNTxW9xqO10YGWXq42qqpCOxlnsIG2vcaSO0J5lfoL6mYln7Pn+AO1Av 6K7VLn3Y8+xzOgPucu2zQ1EU+jdoFQgRNQM4YnEn153lreI86slKMtYDnwkr YWQvkL9TEOPMWN+NyV/5qAKG3G0XSdNUwlYJnVDxZ4Nbfx55xF+q1/1OX4xl RCuzr2Ou8NDk9ieXbL5xCzyvtZp/yyA+2yy6+UUrvJwC5pUymA2n1lo/XmWl fINbaeMvL1MHp8U1iw2Z8+/KdcbP34hoKWgoeueQjSEJUh3ErIb3gJMsDSk9 s6rlUc0Ifcc2xPq9f7uxpFaCgrslFFoRwt1B1WGHBS83mA8peYoA8bOCxp1M Gu8OEawdKnnqTE0pAlvUpFsUUmO8MGfStcFIilwjMggIYcY9R4Y8uj6/zGpg 0TXyQi6GpMRc1Qj1fPLLIRkxdJD4cH1tTVJilfQsLRmWtYMt39YbDmA/y8KR munbKpAeKtYEG0K7oyTn20pyIJVt2KQ6bipMZ6zoJl+sPWWOlmV5c0O/hW8G zqq9V0ol3sg2QLQiHqSN/mi5KLpywpMC0yZlIU+1YgkNgv+nKytTuUiTzcO6 Zf8QCombHPuBhc0GgdDDI2rjvG8CzgoWyU6WkxD4vrUSEl6nKKAEvSbA0yPR cIIBROUmrYYRUrbN023EgF2M3FJd/3q+87HnAscSdpZw6przqAjtJSwRmsUM rZQgUHuDyI/AFIXh3Kp+UmosRhbk/HfoddVUlYj3y/Mh0qYfhbXAXEbWgTAd uxiQQ4T6YMjSt+plLBWGT0EYmag3H+y+KG8LA1TZSccJdLqFJl7Z6LDwRIl1 OIY21mblsZAkEquLQN+G1lq0m+FmqY/d22ZZGMqb1lrw4NWHVFC4k/Hz59dv z66u35xbC7jQ44GZrZoHbr1pA00kTgogJRGVVAIqWpRT1q7qseg8KOC+ajd6 A1UlLbi0oGsoteapWQ812iyR3N6VKHsl+mV2dVvBZx2ySvc3tSNQhdnUkw7T dBaRhpvEAseWjztujPWSaD9+KESUPAx+uHz1Pha5qMr6IYVqQwrO8ctUi6+1 aHmrYCnXElJjFTgXLnBsAZlECpxH/FYSMr2LNp1ak/zk+RHr+xAgaXH+BKDQ ViKbzaq4bojj2VNNAstJNINybn0ctexkSpk2dodpyFZpORJtvdp3AlZeZgnQ MK60BBETb9pUYr78s/M/9zwra9eBnpvS3WKS9zyYbHt9NrbsaWZ+Hlh1hKKj gof5mSJn0i6mymh7er3Keasgo7Bqt5tctMzKtGO5TEKW0+/RuNYvhxihwi6j hRS6TjsK04rQOevoeSAoOb6kczXOAdaFtdRk+iTSR35aeD8f/Cqf9UIizfpL FkL1lM1+d16zWS/U+6X7MDjJcI5NKEiaduoAPVvX6ziUkiX3+6FhMXn+Ycye lMid1mug4/Q2EKy5wEVnKrw7Sk4MakfW99blbAvCWbL8D3s8EP5POWa3rJz3 sAprOZpepX6WVoVVvyKAsmqQedlIq5UoGs0i2lOTHJxmVHgQjdpAr6vpJoY6 9PBwAT3m6srYtKInoJec01iPAAkGJUFInIs2XQlHyztrfOwXXgHZ0A/s+/tz hJvPtdnouU2uB8uSlAz1xusykG2gqa+WqPROw2mrxZBsWeJCofJxwIBu7ETc 15bSqjvQERlvZbSP+WFtyjRWnxeVIQasWDY3qaaVlgbrx0lqaJxZ7vRhpIVf 1gpdJiqF8jBv3mQ5itgDc85rzXTFRo4K7a9t9rVWnVM/v9ZkTron7/co8e6x Mhlt3nWwx5BvS4MfIxQ0Doempd7gP62WhVvTSNqqGGQ5tli+KfL/yk/+WzCh 63umY9AFTv0o0mLYgbaSswXFYo2AO16UjmLifgOYsFrJIwo9goz8kzGrQNY6 0l7K6mfbmizVKmTq2ODU6G7bwlV2syo1pa4MEmUwRJ8Ma8nkrrE0uVSD2wpt CDjaCDpuf6ALNwplDZV+Vdvv/EnFRU7nqfekrrwU0+YVjItRWbfq98pZUIEL S1hvBKQHmXm8mj5PFJ5KsXRdtDJd1j62QRk6SKqko2b0bYcPpNWMqJKj5Evt jVaRzELl0ureWzZWdu1l9B6ys5rlhAxGc33G7ixVxmr3eOeXYtiq/PEzY/Wv Q8R195ezn1/vYWq/8TttXzA02JjP2Y4MsyWFfHFwfPj06cuk3slfIjzodVze a0s+vIyRf830I7qu1/v82ccS3de+pBGrooO1LJYhkzHCCPrwMQWsHiEdtjME byIBSTdsQnB2Ir66NIlxcq02a/pkvxPb4OiBFmUq4wpN+qwUhpaQqIuNk/yK CYIAGdPIQ8nb2HcghduGGWiQIvGceSTBIrrakaJWZV4UtJspKnXtgt7yuoFL MoZ5oyvdeiV0M8/dYR6OvoWoFjV/qRVcGXSRJyF+WSGCqkLwuKYL1sZnrHAm KiNzOqwjSj11AxG+K/Y4sdBVLUanurosmBTI8fTw8ORlu/SNAs+yC+aYnL87 v9gzYDBbzySA2/OL98HPKaoFDdvMw4Jq2uUzmKfzcbelULMhnSetAuNhKGCz lLHXVo+KH3X/PdvdG5ZQdgcSGu2pGZ4GyNWpYrqay06PDawmxmVuLQ4csWug 6AfvXqYBp4UZHTu15nvtqPZmaTyxqDvTLTgxtZLXCu04IUcgbG0ht8YxO0xS zc5Y38EyrRqcswIE3EepNVa0vQj/EDEOOsX+mjsSJ2fg9uFvgTsG/FDCklkQ cNKapKZjNopP5zVctgFkiIczM4GFHCrTbAOi2R81d0t0VQafj+2WMX0V8Okm yA2G9EfeQTDWJlWi1NppKHCu1L5L1Li1SE1AWjDmSR+gcB3hMEl8x3X9sqmL 2cQtLuLhYnNyLfIfSmoyXL5amOKBCXdrRtiJkI5dpw0I8SrpnxMDiLJKi6AO Qvy9Fcmt4sULTT2VCXK12EViLzIVELjdIiDu6aNgGBcg00+iYc0eojNvsVou qlrrsW8oA/sqxM9wrNfUd1CbrFUEdVuxV+9RR7Xwi/ZHdaiA13207pDC5LKd bePsYBcd8Ov+FlJsiPOZ0bQkTlgpPuTKJZHp4HOeM5FlkT/AoxtTdnQem2YQ 8+a3fzd/pOxtgj7a9Of2hJKuxHldKj6DFElaccwmgtUgaHJmdncPwDRCQFQ2 VdVHdeaqH4m4ApzAy17vf5P/9WK5b528x2n4h8H2/yUv2ptaKu0r39u2U1/7 2fU3d+s9XVGPMTMIuZ32knaiF3VtQ1ifdLFqHBEvrElTh2ONyoi4alNTzGtg 4/DxYJQzgw3wnjgJ3Z3tU9DivU4Bmd579dwdP3tieU7y0JurH1+9++47oAf1 J3Xao4la8rVNJLztyx9YBaxV6Hk9n4p3BOM/OnLeuRkRTpW6LcMIXsto3ZF6 ZabZKbZbk70OX5zSofreOsKHFpePVOCvzc9iaCJEa604jvFkNVs0NspQd13A j2Dl/hnyDdCrVnJRWKclOxhWK2e9Ig2Zh3XGqUWS0R6OAXTdHi4JkjPrGoPu 06eyFthP9iY7GyIS7FKevSzZ1ScVMB0d2fh0qwT6+vmIbjKD6nTj4JzwZp+d 3yz3pQGIKHpKUZaJxnhh3qoN5659tFVAfDHwwaYdZ0PQBlq7xTnX4ClRQvgM POmvH53RnQpnoVcEax2k+c7RAEUQKtRetmJC1p4+/Hr382f/2MDxAoDd4cp8 3VxX8zjb1ZyTXS/I1p2ue39bU1Slf8MM4yfSOQpZuV96XtxrkZFILesooOgo +MtPb869xdnhYaiCuUxbK6UZneb+MYA3qwKjiJM5UTYALjRXwpBo9E2FFIiB 7t+G2f3+JKKrzwz7jygyPlOAW7+tncS66bldvdDHd2oYBEU/tAN8OoutLhwq mYjL5EkOROX7wTASAC7JMe17c9/7tN49AmLlqGw8hYLh2HUdTjmUgmBCNk3w 98G579unFeFjdCsClLZJFRt2uZrH9FnKTf7rl2IYXokNPum8wit1knL7VQtM YKif0r6LidajZthIG0nhIruUGFiFOQ8v0QDwOIslaKjnKdWhtPIq1LuxFYJZ oU61pgjKP3++fG/AgXmDZhUWHjGJaGerYQPn2C7hkUvZtBof7GdvHBPbalDB Su/qhumvd3QNGMsUTEmXx9/8cjnWqZqvtdWCP8Gdo+0jRr2k7IMnTm/W7tc5 iiYKdlO0vYBkJ0e72/QiXuP2DfYTSEgMI7J+KCQcuQGCgdZ9opr/PiOzgBjG OHhifOzo6CRWCd4+OTBLOKc3ohzXIsJeiOuLgVzXMnM3cZA1BWHbJtGJbH4l q7f1td+wpE60h3eci7sACLqXPZQ9tXYSoRcDjJI7w24EruOlLr5GWCZ1vnBk 4fySoveAJs3K4RJl0Q3q19eOiZR8Bopj2N5QJlbGM0RI9EabvZU8p43J6kZx BHC5VuYZQhDRmnc/tUA5HSCs6uH7EeFA6tQIuzJlVx64SVdFaMCmGXbB0xCY KSaU7IKvnq14W2v3zojafTLO8NkJCHVvP4SUMaKJl3HiOkQf1YDTMGcI/URx YikiLZ52i0vQSPhOrhq9o74Vy4IRKwYNzT76yqH0Ardjl0Hoa3oosHNo++Jq euhNjE44YzSNxIq7tRl2tQ656JuTQTNa3KIA+bMXT1h/fC8cj6ldw6JTVz4J 9rKJs9X+nOzoRuXt+kFArQGqr7mJrZCOtWS2bUffT9zAv66KFct/VZ1KdXWa COTYrWo27lIu/IkW0uRwioDdMrdhYfi0MMl9BEUeuYuu1p3/eHkGD5L85+i5 se5Xwux0b0coySoiY1CORsubwXC4HMQrPrBhwdlztarrNMQU0PDmgh/rdNmU o+62UC89tXjtUYVce6VYw/MUWrsBf/nNtsiFezU311lrk1C3LgXbRWwdkz7Q AB2/v6X3vwVuIC5IC2Hhgb3M2t3ZHMwTrxWTrIaM4sLU4ztCpVP5J4OSwa6y K4sTD3dhGmotdZujxry1MaIQtJH/lI+qYS2n8GeRC7M67bhzfHh4BBOe194q 77Cj2RpFzEBqgRR+euUq/vMnR8zNoh9Tp+qQmUy7Bce+QCaIvTZRvl3lxgIV r8fCmyj9DbXaabu1GQxoczP2GSGLSbWwM+sFvGGhqcaqqW4ZLlr78moxZq26 OZ3V5iifB6zCQPPbPJq1XYUfxa6uAKvkqEUILqIo8yT3hk5afTpx4bVRk+vp Ckm6s6YaxUQGVS0tjT7tst54whWJcapdxJa3j2h3PwWTcIt+t8lmjAbjTxeX sUpCsPvnDzHbIal4WQVOhrA9cH964NZBGoegYsTawMng6xKkk95RJyLalDHq +i42IuvhTm4RShxDOEtx411XcDoDzb+zebNipYJ0w28Y6KBwt2p8ZRMlMvbG QgpWICJJCVGQ7NombVu125PFfGwBI4UVJ7DptGF8GjSAiqgk2fY3qF2AQk4b p5F7DZugSRKU4492sWU2Icerp3eAbjdibUaFtj2qxohXWw3VVwhsnRsc4NI5 ijm1nqvD741xp9x6iQZsxYZaTlqWNlB1vGLrenm7FNaX/npx4ZDR0mUDIY6g QMB8nvhv4jf7dljo0wgZnbjCPJJUELsNk1zGeQmX9TK/z2AiJRdS8QLZ7g5N p+urnb2BHnCs2W9m1fUV3Le82ReXrlZAFJMAzUroAjdjM0cttlN7/65kJTKx jpc4VVpgrY+C7csRLK6Zl+ZB9zKF8WMY8+rcB31x/LQzKC4RRAiIW/dWg+o6 h2fIa1USHXHBVI/0U/J91cgoqKHWKYlW7kQzSSMCY1BNBogbZ8NZxYxId3Nf fbiWL8n/X5+UKwfdBpkOSxdWyX6ybQTd2ly5TVZiydwVOrG/f/JyV36iCpLI dUxKdyTSXIx55EMZNykE00oe9O5F3XLe9MIoCi4nug86mVWtIntwd8NMLcoG FTK1a6n2S6Xk7pZki9S2n/3IwZMC1R9FhjJdE7+wS5fwyqRtZtKJh9TgF9MR GXoOBBCkfRutwLTjhteNlrXufdrzLLQsBqMYaAcAq/KhtRaSEhBYv6ypFTHS FNJ2Ezc5xkRVj6XWEy/DJLTqS/nQJiaUyEpLWhgXsxbkuc/yISGXRaHE6s5C paq5C1aFfEfS6ms5AL7ogkGB0OaHUG3N27EAndQQL7ib18qBYWs/e3pMWzsZ C1kQxZzVvkgYFhJJX3t69OKw/VqK97E+lEllWCCVDGvIW7pia7qJnVSoYEWC jRm2ODxduLF9r0aKOmVWpycUpUS3TuFmOAEWVxeGKVrEldoExMy6/fCBeI+6 FXNzx9VGgWy1L7Qpjfmjz8vlaCWM4JXIho/u2fgJkAKRkpjIlSMQXJg+sUyJ umxW3kIA2sscsmTGdzZ4a1R5aVTH8qJE2hGwXqG/b6liXX6LEbTQths8cheT eqYRBpp4YKLMMHcUhIl62He6a9xRg0FTMgrzZapeo5cQSlfr6jq9yPJPKOK9 AB29uC0j0aRmDCCkLX2xA+t2LnAxuy3U7c7r+ShfyDLV5nh3+fYKc4A03tmg gsCVc3p0SFfOm8l2NaPjhdbZI3XMP6a/p9BvEuel17CFayKm7e40y3IBMMjI 9ndo+ytzNNaMg/IiJCGbzTR1tScY/QFZnruL8RH0iFgS7YCGHjXHWAQMRESp eH2L5E7HLHRto6bhzZB8P2BJg/hUEpfq87obHD3Az2TPvBjY2GIuG8JjZkJv DJ1lhq0VFQfSuE6teV+ZBb/nWiR33mqVQzNZhifRrbPrvg5S1m5GbDjt/eyM txPAnlldqFuUaxGRjlLHy4dF42Z7a7cz+yOukyYGavF1MKE0owA91ZrQljt5 KEBn4H6eP6igI9URCsNbFApetkIULERhIsIqFIixKhdM24F1Le4EO6gcvB/r njqusx/6qnAadM0Un1JAvlkYebt1rSwHN5uTxD3GFm0yvzzQKqo0IYs2sB6k nH9MLPz8WRfgmz/gKoRY2i13yhRCFQAl9o5h86lmad+y0D3OSSIk49GIMv1t YFiuDdTUD4XJwEYeEhTrepXzNLYPb49tXRumZmmXZWxD1Q6iuNIclw37mdNf hwFEIK8PFiCDd+qx7nwIIsgjjrg+HO3kBDO4lB9P0F86FnI0KCnZYTlq0h5V +5aAbuOW6zwVUw6hSx7efDPf3VT1ZJctwbu3YM+CpogA2+WHIIVbstE6Jy6C kpbC7PR1tadrFtaxHxYebhXNAK9OB5AadkXRHh1ASasOaZSKGPH0Cd+/eH/l bjasOH7Lh/CPYYXKWUyQ0n/Ksg5/aEcYEYcihdCCbOxA7RweoG9QUnY99GxX X4O6YFBu66a0pC6kZyXJwz5GULy7YdQ7K+wbl8oti5Sx0tKSvcByyWg3ZHF+ 6YeZJnGZOvFLJIiU2KrOikB227v3s5gQqEaj1gnr5D7ye/U2o9YrDs4riykE xWJpmYrM5wspj2hXV3lZhFTLdeG1McfRQqodw9dDiknyZqiW74lofVXAtSZV d2c2JDOqIcJwDmXgul7lsp+0mWaYRSZ4G0uUUU1KPHrJdhcMLrIkcl8DyxG/ Xre0ss4iFQ4OnjpmwRfOJDaqDVgWs7g8kWNsMb4Xx8dHxBCNx4Yd954Jit7d iUrJTlIYKmEZngVI34wHB4cPyq6s61atBctulmx1AJbDtmVJF7SgOsRN/Lbe HDlw8FcZypl1quCMNpm1dndCGCz1Kq9dtw16mFcHKmstohhaCFIXYM3R+SbL pptaljg71aWRXuo+IwaFwjbsSdNhUhPGoAPJ0GBsoTDO3OvYrTXU0gPpNG60 fIQwNb1+G40n3zxrx5JW5rAGLBZ5tHTEQVMN4E5mKEyxNQhfWg3j6IdnWdIQ k8PTKprbymRaNU9zkDZZkkQib6xHFkv15Ddl7DLnF/mY+tOE+R1svCh8/LED DWhMpj0yXBYuBdjf++L+QyGsUF0Jp8+PAfoI6Sdcmscq6IWDkwsA7JKpsYpI Ce0v2g0BNhRSwPGYUrkhoEZS8z8j9Crb8erVh6jRRrCuF6WZJfqbGc0Bh2CJ Bc2DXiFNfI1OPZp36jj6nRigq7yQK1ZpJj42m4n+EyqahOB81r6rySpDiw3d gY3f1Ezths32xqyfiK2Qp7ttwdL1x/ggbUYc66BuHrRi8mOxzS10YFMl0gFd R4LAeyuy5pPHLYPDSLc29mkP+W51aeIkDkfVUasbqeKuEapJDqeISfNNM5a9 5Me74+kxylA3s2qYa44r8TyEyNyq4vwI37S8nUe+rILp6+CT2s0hJseB0HCT EuiwSpFQqOVrBu2nTmA1eswPfB8aZ1GVvNdQOeoGwcGMeu5uK6XhL/fvElXK /kFiEgxXGkOi9+HW61xbYwd83Isywoczt0Y8hemmSayrry6GuLSlXUCrYtVU 8W9myVlGtEFP5ThqC85t25EQmiNviPPX8YAbUvvbg+MW5EsVyv1sA9KyA1iN Cru1XKEW3G8D8dQ08pqDo6bTmz36p7GHW1lNUmBtyjpXphp65p8uhRM4Cqi/ g+POXGARtSGkXp8yBZTEADB9DW4TmBcm+RNsTP+jdqZjrQZWv4Oi7PsTLH/w Qpc26Hs9Y+hd6Jepe27mo48jq9Xm8xSPFdTsKSpaseymlRrOqiQvnhCaJAVh O7+wMNXfs14mgsUM5dfqkijGBiD4/M1G/0avt9N50ny13iWymS4LqnrIilEI /7vU51GMt5acSWH5So0aNKkUXnJRiskH/zVs6jp7J+z3Rq/Y7sWHd3tJC3BV azQRMvG1HNSF6OIQmR2He/ysgi00LpJMd8nmTAqjM30hCc9D2DRs88sejd3l WikXAw1tronjEeT1r6ulVTYKGjSvEuwZ2r4hr16T4HfXk+46zS8SjbDritr7 f2DyPNDEg/gQNLh/EP70D48tThVnIqWgNtBhX0drUhQJd6m1elV4awBLtEs/ TWf5p5x9OEPchWuj03FtjKC1azOxYkIuqEFiLfwwiEtvv7l2MN1zmVYLlJVA HZQN56KVYcO7E/mh1tjT7ea7tXZCnv2beh5r96/Ke8n3WZnEqSTiXLZ8ab0O D3kc7edh4R1lreTMGr4Hx6hVAFTGxtl1Wip3IDWpWxVRZOCulnVhSl2yGJ5r pPk4/aRZb/7gfoLYF9Nq7XmJrv5XLFyO6XXs7khof1hNEtE1KnQjz5HQaV15 KD6aoRGzGDbtXRg+eNvNzBqCfUL8mKM4iUPTHGc8rFyiTDxPW95BpDu7Kaob 0Zim6DRRqBNVJVoss+9dX7onsmU2RCIp0rXVRRkNahYrh+UtDbHEEG7o67dG 94EmkIpGjHhdOq7PCVxBdKo6QqLv3OWzcryT7QLkVdx5Bp86ZiGmmBgFqknI BFTzyI00Q8VR3mU3TXqDehUcBt2avZ8/xw/FQI5ZxcVxcRt/qfG47zUGwMon SX1/fDdKc2Xjr+OMP3+TBorUfvBq5Vr+vnv3HEAGKERp/NZdUvEydLyr/bQs 1dwKzlsvh0d5u5JAPt8gHBb0zYHf/R7nNyZv01equ0BP8kv1n7yZs7Iklghu hCjhfKBA6rWvRrijfv73vx38CpQjcYtCe+QkRivX4241w0FaoD1qbGpTijU1 D7OzutnL6FPRA5nYXFtcjcNYv6Ru8/K+4VP/8z/+z4lMH6XSZOX/+R//V4v9 FrG+O9/x7reO62FhNRTUF3WvPVKNoYSktMN8InoLv91l7FTmrR87xGd2oxdq B1KjoHUbuy2v50RZm/QCgZrZQxjO3GCsORdms/PGNs/tnavBpU5OvvK+aCaz 8pPWBKKK/QG1w1DgeAf+2vMfL86uLv/56Bk8tuqINEwA1u2NHEIumta7Wvve InzvTr/jpk2KKVSl3RuhmNu5mN9on2NLQ0MbIC0bpja8qi/ULDQ7b95JBnJf YohBeft2kU7zudnBeRh3fVjNXeuQq9b2jR2Vm9ai1+9CWuun1FJ92nvPeaph gzUqVMxm3Om1+3Bv7lydaumboFTiraSGyJ1An2WLf9dJ0iCLjYKgksscr1GS Mstz044UaYsKyj63uqrQ7uL67VUSSvRESH84ee78st8NqFO2dPpgjJOqiqt5 3E6YfdZ4JqgzCSg4Sv12pMY8VuaBZnFcLbpaldrIi5OO2GIoQklBI3Ntr6kA aQRfIU9HT04tzS7FBrcjzLCfTGvnJvc3BplXtZk+bX90mpVsyKputVF9I6K1 iMh4e5Ud7T/JvLcnisvVUygV6sw8OWEZhrnVTwEo0VEG4ZNHViphI8BiE7Ii wDs+EbagwT2U+S7nLGQ3V7AnYKNlMUNN8DfzuGSF+esDGq/XEFW3H4J/LpIf eyLveH9PsdKXOxbgFuEI15ce8nkMMb65sH148eJFWOVdEUoNqwsKfPvr57N5 Hl5Z7mclgv72GeksrvSmt/6imrKq3JqfUfeTaG7bn0zP1U61yP+6EoZOR5Re 7dT55PiD433UYAuZZkQ23dLtYPE5hCvKWowxp87WX90Q7YAh2oUzkoI3Cdog +OFo6pXzWGq6gyfB2N86TMQqMkFC36K1kLzTjsAbVM47fvrEyOvgLIyLud8M 62FM1RTPYA4H6Mo7bO5wWeVjpHEKAWUvDp+e+o15egpa2unorfmSGOqIKftB 78B5W+3sQzJzMj+GlcRqPq/vrLwbtiSESDZkuuysw3PYrGHi4cRinOoirVoW Sutk54bDUddfcEd6TmDH2TpaV9TN/TfYZI4mWb9sv24eE+2pbj6ojhZU1m0f 6RuXCj9fvncc7Fy97CGXKmkl1Jqg4Uc2KeJ/VCWOuCvKNKIL9WJ4zFpvs2LL 471/c+k184qQp+ygExXwMRgf3Oi6QjWRNphGP6iRJf/ZZBttMMF6vR8eMQCt O6IqTvNiAsHTMetawLx2u+ptSiy1opVYsEtKxrZi0EfmD2AYjzyg+HZtz77t sXBpHvWzrWV7KX8Ni009RNe/t6Zt7spb5E02S/5/kOTjKyvdr9JZj5WQGxY6 FNS+1rlQWQ4nx0ocIqZTEGeTFtFBaahwI5jod7uQ35dUHhIfQXfF8RutLkZE WcR6odAlk246hlBTXpT2G26vUQN+NmQrv0hrU1bG1Lt7k+h5eJNZbZSAaDy9 UqQ/S4NgwvjKd4rH3Xaa39JlqEb0HeuGxBpDoy5fJ0AVTEspZFIu5Zw9SkLg kRbNiJ6bR8hIXWahh1qboDX1zQuIOO8wdLFX0WkXpn30Y4wtoeik4j40AtzF vVbQZQyDupOWuTQTRzl6rtAfY7zIzUKJJ/rmKmrMDp7SuZbmpNUpQ7I8avXG a6qZJ9jNVk56mKH5PDb4O0rvlGA9GzxEtaUZ4Y7QspBAZbxamxB6wDTsdXIp kexNq0eLVKpgUnppC3gDrtK/ZzzBbFPf0lDNfASDPniaQtxXXU6EEqUJ5o9s IPdPaeuxk2Z6mvU1iX09k2EVOdIayxmnpqr5qr07p3rRAmU2ye1Oyna5GwH1 HdDNWMkjnyEF+iFB/tDnqOfWQpi519GSSRCM027i2dl8HDQqtENhF6Nu4ZbB 1dn7CxFeg8yaPia1jrPQu74Ol092t65z5gi4GOKQaf1VjqvF01y9LGaG0Ie4 oIzzKiOPPNwPub8OhtbsdOy6o58sa2X0YG5OO6xQsnOYlv9qJdMSMBHbHAft GdpSpwIUQ94aG+57u2Xi4z7xZo0s+RPVPPtpXd9kZ/7zP/6PumU9k2s3ebOq EZPbudDufonKcomwypj9I30brhDcLKK7alOaxu7Vh+vLvR2z7p4dP9l2uAnO i98MYYEYHtv03WbLd9slAn8nRhOitDcr2Wm5TwV3wb5jNRZhVSLj6eq7D2fv XnMZ6aJKK9EIi9QSh7B0txj8z9EHVRGxV4yZtBiqDERkQ0T6lo05UY2/xV6b 7uWwsgntCGAAucbsaxQCtjbxdIsgC6aqUVrv8bX2WwXl/579jImnvoCkis72 ckjD4gG4Sewkga6PqAmjaWUVI4LE3aakxAZlotazGmNLlSDYLLpZLQyPqkwh UKQwqYB1p6MhcZN5wre60NaNWq2zcIt09Ydk0LE2I1kU+UfZ3dWS/GJZ3CqD UdS5NW5aIg3OEvhjwMtro1NQEUeonKmq0zfA/Fe1pqo656rYw3OWtLgwnXm8 ocf5WhKYKfjLYvjQ4Yi+dpYlC3ZAp1WD0XKJ6v11IzsHzfA9i+DJLV4NSzmt plq1orVpPUXNbdVb5s1MubnGXPqPCWQU6rey7C0aCSXV6sbR20gLuBfCracq pAE/YHJ1cPkHqevrTkqVr8FyaYwY2jMYUeNxwBfHubDR2bJlr8QkWPMCGQ2x kXSESesFI/u0dt6z4lM0iNligjDu2MDL3ftJ1FIlVajFpIjXDeq3h1Dcq5Og NZ8fo2I0Uxp/KYYfrs/3LOL4uLNrN0nN8XyQva0292vlQa/n4002dyu22eu9 3g5M+ePWdgxCbqMz80BssUz3H5+PQtfomYkmVSI2jAYf2EIoVvChicnUtnG2 cxlaer+LLb3fkNOdUac2Ka2NvR+podH3rVBmtalROMOAmOjNssi1FhJ+UNsP FxbKlpYvXBbafkG47qQxO+lK7tlYQYiQmgrh99bQjUmuUPDS/DFekcWR0+pl TaKAAwuaMPL19srKNlKAEig+C6OrUhszU7iepWhoJSta/t+tXU1P20AQvfMr Vj1WMRZST6hCiiAgGgcQoSD1tiFOYnC8yI6J/O/73uys4xirpx4dx94P787X zrx3KG5Xz06CVxpmV5tNPG6lSfDeGbfT3mO5ybr17gPzCT65+9rDXNvPdPYf pFOLAKdOOfBawT/0FeTEWf0ln5Gj1Bg+bNb7p19TWO0M60qWTONJTKjg9lbR 5TmxVw+3EjzWRCaZ1EBBo4lZHrzwiLXFBiCEnhyU0z0rAMplYf4Vn2wj16uj hKGBaEhddCTlsAfqCwOLcBoeBtNBdSmOKjW/AikNVQcNZVZoaU8/wNmNHxw6 u2j+LUX4RTAN3S63x6tSNVv1l2VwxzsF6WKutYeQOyKRhZz80BXVmxp9V3A7 xWdWBnI5qjjIi8pmiir17SmIHvHsmdXzGaDxPD32EYVNUDTK5jgsUFqnv3JD yS4BGS2U7GkHeE6RBQyVnRNsFd0yHtSiM/Od1hjSZ/c70L+HorADj5gjbmrq AxU1s7glwfVadeCj8r17fAal1iLwlSpJTYmZ3UNIHUorgklBgUPmE18T1D6t u0s19GqAXt5q8nju/PSen5yY7+bnZrf7qM7jeI3vXC9O0WAsSne/jrbuo4qX pV3tIvmJ11E7x5H7oMCKF7lbxOxdnEtxXrR0r8N/Pd0uL6DNlpm3yynLziUe 9/sxUVQYb1W4gBysfk3Ao1Mz+HYyvzETcqYHlsN5mv6HkfhS7/js7MeFzKCH bRPsAXM7vhv3DIt+SljrOzC0FqjlqP35rE9xDu5P/0XtDa0na2O0ArhU9jK5 BhDnWy4JB+N3sLh7/5XMdLhqvM1cCmjU/qi4E2PB+IQk7tBpoRziCMevzLfJ 06XyOWCKLDnssE3GsC8tWXHMjast9j/23MiMbYnOXdv8fWQuNyUaTlL6TpBW VzypuYfYHZkJ2YaemwJSamRu8rQomEyFG1NW3Tw6plsmaZVn0EE2W9M1S2Du W3NVFwsLDZfU0LvmAU3WuDezMMDvnEDDbJhWNMM0mzm2NHoxI/LOpFiTY2vE 4h58kCk6tiksLiELpEQZjrEt3qBrZ7hT4s40Q0/xovfNG0zuL4N5wkZu0IGa AdgXSr/E7tkY1jYcgzlDOaveQHHxbqasqmXDsHIwuKLJMzz3TEaZxsy3TZW7 T95epFBNePGO0jmhtTch9QxclD+WXGFzjJm6/sXSZjPTegttNzK/3KZA62QT LGViMCeYNTbPNXVnGbK6xCp5YWqVTxWQ2AHR9OggV/VaCwKoYFKyMYVSg+1W kYWiKDJM2Dz5C4tauIW6VgEA --></rfc>