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SDP, or Session Description Protocol, is a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters. It has been published by the IETF as RFC 2327.

SDP started off as a component of the Session Announcement Protocol (SAP), but found other uses in conjuction with RTSP, SIP and just as a standalone format for describing multicast sessions.

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RFC 2327 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2327.txt

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