RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications1 IntroductionThis memorandum specifies the real-time transport protocol (RTP), which provides end-to-end delivery services for data with real-time characteristics, such as interactive audio and video
Those services include payload type identification, sequence numbering, timestamping and delivery monitoring
Applications typically run RTP on top of UDP to make use of its multiplexing and checksum services; both protocols contribute parts of the transport protocol functionality
However, RTP may be used with other suitable underlying network or transport protocols (see Section 10)
RTP supports data transfer to multiple destinations using multicast distribution if provided by the underlying network
Note that RTP itself does not provide