RE: Call for the ipdvb WG to adopt: draft-fairhurst-ipdvb-ule-ext-01.txt

[Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com>]

I vote yes.

/mjm

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Call for the ipdvb WG to adopt: 
> draft-fairhurst-ipdvb-ule-ext-01.txt
> From: Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, January 17, 2007 12:43 pm
> To: ipdvb@erg.abdn.ac.uk
> Cc: Bernhard Collini-Nocker <bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
> 
> As WG Chair, I request the ipdvb list to consider whether the WG is 
> ready to adopt the following individual ID (Internet Draft) as a working 
> group ID, with an intention to develop this into a RFC.
> 
> This particular draft was introduced to support a standard in 
> preparation by the DVB Forum. The aim is to make the 2nd Generation 
> Physical Layer present an interface via the Generic Stream Encapsulation 
> that is consistent with ULE (e.g. uses the IANA registry), so that both 
> can benefit from common extension modules: header compression, etc 
> (should these be defined).
> 
> PLEASE DO read the draft below and offer email comments on the 
> suitability or progression to an RFC and the technical content. ALL 
> comments are welcome. Email received before the 25th January 2007 will 
> be used to inform the decision about whether to make this a WG Draft.
> 
> WG documents should no longer be regarded as the property of the 
> individuals who originally authored them - the working group as a whole 
> must decide how they are shaped, and to see the document to
> a successful conclusion. If adopted, the Internet Draft will be renamed 
> to start with the filename draft-ietf-ipdvb..., and will be listed on 
> the IETF web page for this WG.
> 
> 
>   Best wishes,
> 
>   Gorry Fairhurst
>   (ipdvb WG Chair)
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> 
>      Title        : Extension Formats for Unidirectional Link 
> Encapsulation (ULE) and the Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE)
>      Author(s)    : B. Collini-Nocker, G. Fairhurst
>      Filename    : draft-fairhurst-ipdvb-ule-ext-01.txt
>      Date        : 2007-1-11
> 
>     This document describes a set of Extension Headers for the
>     Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE). The Extension Header
>     formats defined in this document provide new extensions that are
>     common extensions to both ULE and the Generic Stream Encapsulation
>     (GSE) defined by the second generation framing structure DVB-S2
>     standard (Channel coding and modulation systems for Broadcasting,
>     Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite
>     applications).
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fairhurst-ipdvb-ule-ext-01.txt