The IESG has received a request from the Audio/Video Transport Payloads WG (payload) to consider the following document: - 'RTP Payload Format for MELPe Codec' <draft-ietf-payload-melpe-04.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-01-13. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes the RTP payload format for the Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction Enhanced (MELPe) speech coder. MELPe's three different speech encoding rates and sample frames sizes are supported. Comfort noise procedures and packet loss concealment are detailed. INTERNET DRAFT RTP Payload Format for the MELPe CodecDecember 13, 2016 The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-payload-melpe/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-payload-melpe/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2387/