RE: FINAL CALL for Feedback on Charter

["Allison, Art" <AAllison@nab.org>]

The charter's focus on IP over MPEG-2 being DVB centric is very troublesome.
Certainly the developed method should enable IP over DVB-flavored
Transports. However, as an international standard, it should enable IP over
all flavors of transport, and not discriminate against other flavors.  ATSC,
ISDB and other systems (China's) should be enabled as well.  A generic
solution abstracted from the details of transport would seem to have a much
larger marketplace. 

I note that delivery of IP over MPEG-2 has been solved for the ATSC
transport, and while the standard is tied to ATSC announcement, that tie
could be abstracted, as it is not the heart of the technology. The IP
therein is a technically separable layer. The essence of the standard is how
to deal with the one-way issues that contrast IP over broadcast vs. two way
over the internet.

See http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_92.pdf

The current scope seems to be one of requiring re-inventing the wheel, and
being narrow while doing so... perhaps a broader view would better serve the
world.

Art
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Art Allison
Director Advanced Engineering
NAB
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rod.Walsh@nokia.com [mailto:Rod.Walsh@nokia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:18 AM
To: gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk
Cc: ip-dvb@erg.abdn.ac.uk
Subject: RE: FINAL CALL for Feedback on Charter


Gorry et al.

Can you email a text version directly to this mail group for those of us
off-line most of the time (at the moment :).

Cheers, Rod.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ip-dvb@erg.abdn.ac.uk 
> [mailto:owner-ip-dvb@erg.abdn.ac.uk]On
> Behalf Of ext Gorry Fairhurst
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:42 PM
> To: ip-dvb@erg.abdn.ac.uk
> Subject: FINAL CALL for Feedback on Charter
> 
> 
> 
> You will (hopefully) be pleased to know that we are now progressing 
> through the IETF Chartering process to form an IETF WG in the 
> INT Area.
> 
> As a part of this process, it is important to get feedback from the 
> people on this list about the Charter of things to be 
> examined/produced 
> by the proposed WG (that's us!!!). A similar process has just been 
> completed at the IETF level, and resulted in a much better 
> charter proposal:
> 
> http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/charter.html
> 
> Please send any comments - positive or negative - to either 
> me directly 
> or to this mailing list. I intend to submit the charter for 
> review this 
> Friday.
> 
> Thank you for your patience, we *should* now be entering the final 
> stage, and therfore it's important to get this correct.
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> Gorry Fairhurst
> 
>