ISO/IEC 14496-8:2004 provides a framework for the carriage of ISO/IEC 14496 contents over IP networks and guidelines for designing payload format specifications for the detailed mapping of ISO/IEC 14496 content into several IP-based protocols. More specifically:

a) Framework for the carriage of ISO/IEC 14496 contents over IP networks;

b) Guidelines to design RTP payload formats for ISO/IEC 14496 contents including fragementation and concatenation rules;

c) Usage rules of SDP to transport ISO/IEC 14496-1-related information;

d) MIME type definitions for ISO/IEC14496 contents; and

e) Analysis on RTP Security and Multicasting.