It provided the reliability mechanism by utilizing similar methods for connection, sequence numbers, acknowledgements and re-transmission of lost packets.
[3] When performing retransmissions, SRT only attempts to retransmit packets for a limited amount of time based on the latency as configured by the application.
[4] According to Marc Cymontkowski, the architect of SRT, in addition to sending MPEG transport streams over the public internet, it is also being used for IoT connectivity, metadata exchange, as a communication protocol, as well as for uncompressed data delivery.
[9] In March 2020, an individual Internet-Draft, draft-sharabayko-mops-srt,[1] was submitted for consideration to the Media OPerationS (MOPS) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
SRT Alliance is an organisation whose members develop, use and promote the Secure Reliable Transport protocol and software based on it.