Re: Revised IP over mpeg-2/DVB charter

["Michael A. Dolan" <miked@tbt.com>]

Hi-

I just joined this list, so am coming at this work entirely out of 
context.  But I wanted to understand the scope and requirements as it moves 
to an IETF WG.  Thanks in advance for your indulgence....

1. The proposed working group name is "IP over DVB", yet the charter says 
it is intended for any MPEG-2 transport stream.  Is it the intent of this 
group to develop documents relating to non-DVB transports (ATSC, ARIB, 
video servers, and others)?

2. The second paragraph says, "There is therefore a need to define an 
efficient standardised encapsulation for IPv4 and IPv6 datagrams...".  This 
statement seems to presume that the ISO MPEG 13818-6 Amendment #1 (and the 
related ETSI 301192 and ATSC A/90 and ATSC A/92) that everyone uses today 
are somehow unsuitable for some reason.  I think it would be helpful to add 
something between these paragraphs that supports the need for the 
development of a new encapsulation.  Alternatively, one could soften the 
"therefore there is a need" to something like "investigate and recommend".

Regards,

        Mike


At 10:00 AM 6/20/2003 +0100, gorry wrote:

> A revised charter has been uploaded to the ip-dvb server at:
> http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/charter.html
>
> Please do send corrections to me and comments to the ip-dvb list.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Gorry
>
> P.S. The index page has also been updated (long overdue!) at:
> http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/index.html

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