Colin Perkins

Colin Perkins is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are on transport protocols for real-time and interactive multimedia, and on network protocol design, implementation, and specification. He’s been a participant in the IETF and IRTF since 1996, working primarily in the transport area where he co-chairs the RMCAT working group and is a past chair of the AVT and MMUSIC working groups, and in related IRTF research groups. He proposed and co-chaired the first Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), and has been a long-term participant in the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) awarding committee. He received his BEng in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and PhD in 1996, both from the Department of Electronics at the University of York.

Roles

Chair of RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques (rmcat)	csp@csperkins.org
Chair of Internet Research Steering Group (irsg)	csp@csperkins.org
Chair of IRTF Open Meeting (irtfopen)	csp@csperkins.org
Chair of IRTF (irtf)	csp@csperkins.org
Chair of ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop (anrw)	csp@csperkins.org
Member of Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability (edm)	csp@csperkins.org
Reviewer in Transport Area Review Team (tsvart)	csp@csperkins.org

RFCs (32)

rfc2198	Sep 1997	RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data Cited by 44 RFCs
rfc2354	Jun 1998	Options for Repair of Streaming Media Cited by 8 RFCs
rfc2736	Dec 1999	Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications Cited by 21 RFCs
rfc2974	Oct 2000	Session Announcement Protocol Cited by 68 RFCs
rfc3158	Aug 2001	RTP Testing Strategies
rfc3259	May 2002	A Message Bus for Local Coordination
rfc3497	Mar 2003	RTP Payload Format for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 292M Video Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc4421	Feb 2006	RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video: Additional Colour Sampling Modes
rfc4566	Jul 2006	SDP: Session Description Protocol Cited by 238 RFCs
rfc5761	Apr 2010	Multiplexing RTP Data and Control Packets on a Single Port Cited by 31 RFCs
rfc5762	Apr 2010	RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5968	Sep 2010	Guidelines for Extending the RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc6051	Nov 2010	Rapid Synchronisation of RTP Flows Cited by 11 RFCs
rfc6222	Apr 2011	Guidelines for Choosing RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Canonical Names (CNAMEs) Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc6336	Jul 2011	IANA Registry for Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Options Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc6562	Mar 2012	Guidelines for the Use of Variable Bit Rate Audio with Secure RTP Cited by 12 RFCs
rfc6679	Aug 2012	Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for RTP over UDP Cited by 20 RFCs
rfc6773	Nov 2012	DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc7022	Sep 2013	Guidelines for Choosing RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Canonical Names (CNAMEs) Cited by 12 RFCs
rfc7198	Apr 2014	Duplicating RTP Streams Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7201	Apr 2014	Options for Securing RTP Sessions Cited by 28 RFCs
rfc7202	Apr 2014	Securing the RTP Framework: Why RTP Does Not Mandate a Single Media Security Solution Cited by 17 RFCs
rfc8015	Nov 2016	RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Block for Independent Reporting of Burst/Gap Discard Metrics Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8083	Mar 2017	Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions Cited by 13 RFCs
rfc8108	Mar 2017	Sending Multiple RTP Streams in a Single RTP Session Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc8834	Jan 2021	Media Transport and Use of RTP in WebRTC Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc8860	Jan 2021	Sending Multiple Types of Media in a Single RTP Session Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc8861	Jan 2021	Sending Multiple RTP Streams in a Single RTP Session: Grouping RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Reception Statistics and Other Feedback Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc8866	Jan 2021	SDP: Session Description Protocol Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc8872	Jan 2021	Guidelines for Using the Multiplexing Features of RTP to Support Multiple Media Streams Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc8888	Jan 2021	RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Feedback for Congestion Control Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc8922	Oct 2020	A Survey of the Interaction between Security Protocols and Transport Services Cited by 1 RFC

Colin Perkins

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RFCs (32)

Active Drafts (11)

Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts