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Re: [AVT] RTP: SSRC multiplexing for same medium



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Stephen Casner wrote:
Answering several messages at once, inline...

2. Does this text imply that an RTP receiver MUST be prepared to receive
multiple multiplexed streams on a single session? I expect most
implementations today using unicast are not prepared for that (although
I believe they should be)

No, it would be inappropriate to make that a MUST.  We do say, in
Section 6:

   RTP application designers SHOULD avoid mechanisms that can only
   work in unicast mode and will not scale to larger numbers.
I have a hard time seeing how this implies that receiving multiple streams on a single session is not a MUST. Indeed, receiving many streams on a single session is how multicast works, so one would imagine that the direct translation of this to unicast, receiving multiple streams on a single port for multi-unicast, would be the recommended approach.

If RTP does not mandate that a user be prepared to receive multiple streams on a single session for unicast (even though it does for multicast), I think it needs to say that its up to signaling mechanisms to indicate such a limitation. Of course, SDP has no such mechanism....

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