IEC 62481-1:2007

IEC 62481-1
Edition 1.0 2007-08
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Digital living network alliance (DLNA) home networked device interoperability
guidelines –
Part 1: Architecture and protocols

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IEC 62481-1
Edition 1.0 2007-08
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Digital living network alliance (DLNA) home networked device interoperability
guidelines –
Part 1: Architecture and protocols

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
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ICS 33.160; 35.100.05; 35.110 ISBN 2-8318-9271-6

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.7

0 Introduction .9
0.1 General .9
0.2 Purpose .9
0.3 Audience .10
0.4 Organization.10
1 Scope.12
2 Normative references .12
3 Terms, definitions and acronyms .13
3.1 Terms and definitions .13
3.2 Acronyms .29
4 DLNA home network architecture .30
4.1 General .30
4.2 Networking and connectivity .30
4.2.1 General .30
4.2.2 Network quality of service.31
4.3 Device discovery and control.31
4.4 Media management .31
4.5 Media formats .32
4.6 Media transport .32
5 DLNA device model .32
5.1 Overview .32
5.2 Device model elements .33
5.3 Device functions.34
5.4 Device categories.35
5.5 Device classes and roles.35
5.6 Device capabilities and roles .36
5.7 System usages.36
5.7.1 Overview .36
5.7.2 2-box pull system usage .37
5.7.3 2-box push system usage .38
5.7.4 3-box system usage.39
5.7.5 2-box printing system usage .40
5.7.6 3-box printing system usage .41
5.7.7 Download system usage .42
5.7.8 Upload system usage .43
5.8 Home infrastructure device (HID) system usage .44
5.8.1 General .44
5.8.2 Bridging HND and MHD network connectivity .44
5.8.3 Bridging HND and MHD media formats .45
5.9 Interoperability guidelines usage .46
6 Guideline terminology and conventions .48
6.1 Guideline compliance classifiers.48
6.2 Standard or specification usage classifiers .49
6.3 Guideline font usage conventions.49

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6.4 Guideline syntax notation conventions.49
6.5 Guideline normative and informative text conventions .50
6.6 DLNA XML namespaces and schemas .50
7 Guideline requirements .50
7.1 General .50
7.2 Networking and connectivity .52
7.2.1 General .52
7.2.2 Normative definitions of NC-PS modes .53
7.2.3 Networking and connectivity – General capability requirements .53
7.2.4 Networking and connectivity – QoS requirements .62
7.2.5 Networking and connectivity – Device requirements .66
7.3 Device discovery and control.86
7.3.1 General .86
7.3.2 DDC UPnP device architecture .86
7.3.3 DDC UPnP Auto IP support .88
7.3.4 DDC UPnP SSDP default port .88
7.3.5 DDC UPnP discovery robustness.89
7.3.6 DDC UPnP HTTP support and general rules.92
7.3.7 DDC UPnP HTTP/1.0 rules .95
7.3.8 DDC UPnP HTTP/1.1 transaction rules.96
7.3.9 DDC UPnP HTTP persistent connections.97
7.3.10 DDC UPnP device responsiveness .98
7.3.11 DDC UPnP device description rules.99
7.3.12 DDC UPnP embedded device support .102
7.3.13 DDC UPnP service description rules.103
7.3.14 DDC UPnP XML namespace.104
7.3.15 DDC UPnP action argument encoding .104
7.3.16 DDC UPnP SOAP packet size .105
7.3.17 DDC UPnP error codes.105
7.3.18 DDC UPnP GENA packet size .106
7.3.19 DDC UPnP subscription handling .106
7.3.20 DDC UPnP UUID format .107
7.3.21 DDC UPnP UUID generation .107
7.3.22 DDC UPnP event subscription renewals .107
7.3.23 DDC UPnP event notification handling.108
7.3.24 DDC UPnP unknown header/tag/field robustness rule. 108
7.3.25 DDC URI rules.109
7.3.26 DDC UPnP device description usage .111
7.3.27 DDC UPnP UDN usage.112
7.3.28 DDC UPnP multi-homi§ng rules .113
7.3.29 DDC UPnP device icons .114
7.3.30 DDC UPnP UTF-8 support .115
7.3.31 DDC UPnP XML comments .115
7.3.32 DDC UPnP boolean types.115
7.3.33 DDC CP versioning.116
7.3.34 DDC absolute and relative URI requests.117
7.3.35 DDC maximum HTTP header size .117
7.3.36 DDC device capabilities.117
7.3.37 DDC DLNAQOS support .118

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7.4 Media management .118
7.4.1 AV media management.118
7.4.2 Image printing media management .250
7.5 Media transport .255
7.5.1 General .255
7.5.2 Uniform client data availability model.258
7.5.3 Media operations.260
7.5.4 Media transport protocols .261
7.5.5 HTTP transport.274
7.5.6 RTP media transport.340
7.5.7 RTP media transport – Adaptation of media format profiles . 363
7.5.8 RTP media transport – RTSP for control of RTP streams. 386
7.6 Content transformation device virtualization .
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