Re: Please all respond: Call for the ipdvb WG to adopt: draft-fair-ipdvb-ar-04.txt

[nurul <azila@nrg.cs.usm.my>]

voting for no. 1

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 23:33, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
> As WG chair, I request the ipdvb list to consider whether the WG is
> ready to support adoption of the following individual Internet Draft
> (ID) as a WG ID. By adopting an individual ID as a working group ID,
> this WG indicates that it intends to be develop this into an RFC,
> according to the WG charter.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> ---
> 
>          Title           : Address Resolution for IP datagrams over
>                            MPEG-2 networks
>          Author(s)       : G. Fairhurst, et al.
>          Filename        : draft-fair-ipdvb-ar-04.txt
>          Pages           : 17
>          Date            : 2005-4-12
> 
>     This document describes the process of binding/associating IPv4/IPv6
>     addresses with MPEG-2 Transport Streams (TS). This procedure is
>     known as Address Resolution (AR), or Neighbour Discovery (ND). Such
>     address resolution complements the higher layer resource discovery
>     tools that are used to advertise IP sessions. In MPEG-2 networks, an
>     IP address must be associated with a Packet ID (PID) and a specific
>     Transmission Multiplex The document reviews current methods. It also
>     describes the interaction with well-known protocols for address
>     management including DHCP, ARP, and NDP, and provides guidance on
>     usage.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fair-ipdvb-ar-04.txt
> 
> ---
> 
> You are encouraged to send email to this WG, to help make the decision
> for adoption.  Possible recommendations are:
> 
>        1) Support for adoption as a working group draft under our Charter -
>        i.e. Recommend this Internet Draft SHOULD be used as the basis for
>        developing an RFC by the ipdvb WG.
> 
>        2) Request for non-adoption
>        i.e. That there is (or could be) alternative approaches to
>        the problem, and that the current draft is not sufficiently
>        developed / or correctly designed ipdvb WG
> 
>        3) Out of scope
>        i.e. you believe the document to be beyond the scope of the
>        approved ipdvb WG charter.
> 
> Emails on this topic should be sent to the ipdvb mailing list before
> 6th May 2005.
> 
> Note that an ID does not need to be complete to be adopted. It would
> also be most useful to collect as many comments/criticisms as possible
> from those reading this ID.  Looking through the archived mailing
> list, a first list of issues to be addressed is included at the end of
> this email.
> 
> Please do help to identify any more known (or potential) issues that
> should be addressed/discussed.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Gorry Fairhurst
> (ipdvb WG Chair)
>