The RTP Payload for Text Conversation needed for H.323 Annex G Text Conversation and Text SET and other IP based text telephony and text telephone applications has taken one step closer publication in IETF.

Regards Gunnar Hellström

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Audio/Video Transport Working Group of the IETF.

Title : RTP Payload for Text Conversation Author(s) : G. Hellstrom Filename : draft-ietf-avt-rtp-text-03.txt Pages : 8 Date : 19-Jan-00

This memo describes how to carry text conversation session contents in RTP packets. Text conversation session contents is specified in ITU-T Recommendation T.140 [1]. Text conversation is used alone or in connection to other conversational facilities such as video and voice, to form multimedia conversation services. This RTP payload description contains an optional possibility to include redundant text from already transmitted packets in order to reduce the risk of text loss caused by packet loss. The redundancy coding follows RFC 2198.

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