On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Vinod M wrote:
"Optionally, the BYE packet MAY include an 8-bit octet count followed
by that many octets of text indicating
the reason for leaving, e.g., "camera malfunction" or "RTP loop
detected".
The string has the same encoding as that described for SDES.
If the string fills the packet to the next 32-bit boundary, the
string is not null terminated."
It sounds as if whoever wrote RFC 3550 needs to learn the difference
between the words "padded" and "terminated" - they probably meant to
say that the string is null-*padded* to a 4-byte boundary.