Re: IP-DVB: Notes from Atlanta

[Joerg Ott <jo@tellique.de>]

I will be at the IETF but will have to leave on Wednesday at noon.
If there is a chance to get together some time Monday or Tuesday in
a small group (maybe for breakfast or so), I'd be interested.

Joerg

Dr G Fairhurst wrote:

> No, no BoF this time either!
> 
> So, what progress have we made?
> 
> - First, I promise to rev. the ID on the encapsulation, and will do
> a call for comments to see if there any more changes needed / desirable.
> There has been a recent ESA ITT issued to do some implementation of
> this scheme and evaluation in a real link. so that should help this.
> 
> - I hope that people will start writing down their ideas on other
> topics  relating to security, MIBs, address resoltion, etc and prepare
> for the next meeting in Vienna.  I would like to see more than two IDs
> so we can have a good range of topics and opinions....
> 
> - Finally I have been really busy since November, so some of the
> lack of progress is my fault. I am sorry. 
> 
> If you will be at the IETF in San Francisco, I'd like to talk to
> find out what your views / needs are.... Email me please.
> 
> Gorry Fairhurst
> 
> Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 
>>Will there be a meeting of this group in San Francisco ? If so, when ?
>>
>>On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 05:22  AM, Dr G Fairhurst wrote:
>>
>>
>>>There was an unofficial meeting of people from the ip-dvb list at 5:30pm
>>>after the IETF meeting on 20th November.
>>>
>>>Here's a brief summary of what was discussed.
>>>
>>>New encapsulation
>>>-----------------
>>>Discussion again about "why" this was needed?
>>> - Was it processing efficiency in software?
>>> - Was it to improve bandwidth utilisation?
>>> - Was it to help standardise features? (add new features?)
>>>All were true, but motivation depends heavily on the intended
>>>application.
>>>There were some plans to do pilot implementations in 2003.
>>>
>>>Simple configuration of clients
>>>-------------------------------
>>>"plug & play" .  How could we make schemes for DVB/ATSC so
>>>that were flexible and allowed IPv6 autoconfiguration?
>>>- this implied the ability to do flexible IP address to PID
>>>and TS-MUX mapping.
>>>
>>>There was some discussion of the recent draft from DVB
>>>"ETSI EN drTS 102 00X V0.4.2 (2002-07)
>>>Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
>>>Specification for IP Notification in DVB Systems
>>>Use of the IP/MAC Notification Table"
>>>
>>>- How general-purpose was this?
>>>- Would it scale to large IP edge networks?
>>>- How would it relate to the way IP multicast seemed
>>>      to be going (see discussions about the future of
>>>     multicast in mboned WG
>>>     & "draft-ietf-mboned-iesg-gap-analysis-00.txt")
>>>
>>>Unfortunately few people had access to this document,
>>>since it is currently private to DVB members.
>>>
>>>Those who did have access to the document said they would look
>>>at it and see what they thought. The  current requirements
>>>ID suggested three potential options:
>>>
>>>(i) Use the SI information for address resolution.
>>>(ii) Provide an alternative mechanism at the IP-level
>>>      - similar to IPv6 ND?
>>>(ii) Provide a complementary scheme at the IP-level
>>>      - similar to IPv6 ND, but able to import information
>>>      from SI tables (if able to).
>>>
>>>- Which should be done? - Why?
>>>
>>>The main challenge was to figure out what ELSE was necessary
>>>to make the framework auto-configuartion flexible and
>>>IP-friendly.
>>>
>>>Please send questions and answers on the list.
>>>
>>>Plans
>>>-----
>>>There is now some enthusiasm now to start work on this in 2003,
>>>and several promises of contributions (IDs) have been received
>>>by Gorry Fairhurst. When we get sufficient Internet Drafts
>>>on the table, so we can start doing the real work!
>>>
>>>Afterwards we adjourned to the "Polaris" bar to literally watch the
>>>world spin by...
>>>
>>>Gorry Fairhurst
>>>ip-dvb mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>                                  Regards
>>                                  Marshall Eubanks
>>
>>T.M. Eubanks
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