RTP and Leap Seconds

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 9
Abstract: This document discusses issues that arise when RTP sessions span Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) leap seconds. It updates RFC 3550 by describing how RTP senders and receivers should behave in the presence of leap seconds.
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7164
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7164
Author(s): Kevin Gross
Ray van Brandenburg
Keyword(s): Leap Second, RTP, NTP, UTC, TAI, Unix Time

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IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3550 [Active*]

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IEEE Std 1003.1:2008 [Superseded]
IEEE.STD1588.2008 — IEEE Std 1588-2008, IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems, 2008 EXTERNAL
Kuhn, M., "Coordinated Universal Time with Smoothed Leap Seconds (UTC-SLS)", Work in Progress, January 2006. EXTERNAL
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, "International Atomic Time", Navstar GPS Space Segment/Navigation User Segment Interfaces IS-GPS-200, < http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/tai/tai.html >. EXTERNAL
Global Positioning Systems Directorate, "Systems Engineering & Integration Interface Specification", September 2011, < http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/IS-GPS-200F.pdf >. EXTERNAL
ITU, "The future of the UTC time scale", Question ITU-R 236/7, February 2012, < http://www.itu.int/pub/R-QUE-SG07.236-2001 >. EXTERNAL
Google, Inc., "Time, technology and leaping seconds", September 2011, < http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/ time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html >. EXTERNAL
IERS Earth Orientation Centre, "Bulletin C - Product metadata", < http://datacenter.iers.org/web/guest/eop/-/somos/5Rgv/ product/16 >. EXTERNAL
ITU-R TF.460.6 [Active]
IETF RFC 5905 [Active*]

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