I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipdvb-ule-06.txt

[Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

Dear WG,

The ULE draft is still in IESG review, although we hope to complete this 
process soon. Most issues have now been addressed. A new I-D was announced 
that addresses most concerns and corrections of the IESG. Please do note the 
slight change of the documemt title.

Specifically this new I-D addresses:

* Brian Carpenter's issues using revised language.
* Issues from the gen-ART review by Michael Patton.

* Bert Wijnen's issue regarding the worked example IPv6 addresses.

* A mistake in Figure 2 (32 bit aligned number shoudkl have been 16-bit)
* Revised references
* Updated IANA section following the review.

* New first paragraph linking the spec to the earlier requirements (in RFC Ed
queue). It's good to explain where things come from.

* Title change: "Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) for
transmission of IP datagrams over an MPEG-2 Transport Stream"


The last change is the most significant, and was a result of detailed
discussion within the IESG where it was thought that new name more accurately
reflected the position of the document within the RFC-series. Since the
acronym and title are sufficiently similar to previous ones, the authors
believe this would not orphan the RFC from the body of existing work (in Linux
kernel, commercial drivers, published papers, and mail thread discussions). I
believe this is also an important issue.

Should you wish to see it, the diff file is at:
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/ids/rfcdiff-ule-06-05.html

Best wishes,

Gorry Fairhurst
(ipdvb WG Chair)

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the IP over DVB Working Group of the IETF.

        Title           : Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE)
                          for transmission of IP datagrams over an
                          MPEG-2 Transport Stream
        Author(s)       : G. Fairhurst, B. Collini-Nocker
        Filename        : draft-ietf-ipdvb-ule-06.txt
        Pages           : 49
        Date            : 2005-6-22

The MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) has been widely accepted not only
   for providing digital TV services, but also as a subnetwork
   technology for building IP networks.

   This document describes a Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation
   (ULE) mechanism for the transport of IPv4 and IPv6 Datagrams and
   other network protocol packets directly over the ISO MPEG-2
   Transport Stream as TS Private Data. ULE specifies a base
   encapsulation format and supports an extension format that allows it
   to carry additional header information to assist in network/Receiver
   processing.

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