IESG WG Review: IP over DVB (ipdvb)

[Alastair Matthews <alastair@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

FYI

This didn't make the list as the iesg secretary address wrong.

ip-dvb@erg.abdn.ac.uka.cnri.reston.va.us

A.


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> From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:01:31 -0400
> To: IETF-Announce: ;
> Cc: new-work@ietf.org, ip-dvb@erg.abdn.ac.uka.cnri.reston.va.us
> Subject: WG Review: IP over DVB (ipdvb)
> 
> A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Internet Area.
> The IESG has not made any determination as yet.  The following description
> was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only.  Please send
> your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by October 27th.
> 
> IP over DVB (ipdvb)
> -------------------
> 
> Current Status: Proposed Working Group
> 
> Description of Working Group:
> 
> The MPEG-2 Transport Stream provides a transmission network that has become
> widely use to support digital TV broadcast, including: DVB, ATSC, ISDB-T.
> These, and related standards, define a set of commercially available
> components that are increasingly being used to provide a general-purpose
> packet transmission network. MPEG-2 Transport networks are being used to
> build IP networks to supplement broadcast TV/audio services and also provide
> one-way and two-way IP-only subnetworks.
> 
> There is a need to define an efficient standardised encapsulation for IPv4
> and IPv6 datagrams, and to recommend procedures for supporting protocols.
> Examples include dynamic address resolution, multicast group membership
> reporting and possibly management information tables and MIBs. Documents
> will be defined that describe protocols required to build a complete
> IPv4/IPv6 unicast/multicast services, and the mappings required to perform
> dynamic address resolution. The primary purpose of this working group is to
> develop a set of Internet Drafts and where appropriate to progress these as
> either Internet Informational RFCs or Standards track RFCs.
> 
> The current list of work items is:
> 
> 1. Issue an Internet Draft specifying Requirements and Framework for
> supporting IP services via MPEG-2 transmission networks. Such requirements
> should consider the range of platforms currently (or anticipated to be) in
> use. This draft will be submitted to the IESG for possible publication as
> an Informational RFC.
> 
> 2. The working group will investigate and design an efficient encapsulation
> method for IPv4/IPv6, and advance this via the IESG to a standards-track
> RFC. The design needs to consider the need for MAC addresses, the potential
> need for synchronisation between streams, support for IPv6 and multicast
> services, and support for multiple gateways (feeds).
> 
> 3. The working group will consider the options for unicast and multicast
> address resolution. A working group Internet Draft will define a framework
> and recommend appropriate address resolution mechanisms for IPv4 and IPv6
> using both the existing Multi-Protocol Encapsulation and any new
> encapsulation developed by the working group. Consideration will be paid to
> existing standards, and the cases for IPv6 and IPv4 will be described. This
> document will be submitted to the IESG for publication as an Informational
> RFC.
> 
> 4. A working group Internet Draft will be written to recommend a set of
> dynamic address resolution procedures for IPv6. It will describe the
> protocol and syntax of the information exchanged. This work may be based on
> an extension to the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol to support MPEG-2
> transmission, and include specific optimisations for broadcast networks.
> This document will be submitted to the IESG for publication as a
> standards-track RFC.
> 
> 5. If there is a need for further supporting protocols, it will consider a
> possible recharter under the guidance of the IESG. Examples in this area
> include, the negotiation/association of IP QoS with MPEG-2 transport
> streams, address resolution for IPv4, and the need for SNMP MIBs.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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