The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Basic Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes ' <draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Reliable Multicast Transport Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-06.txt Technical Summary This document is an optional Building Block usable to fully define an RMT Protocol. The document describes some "basic" FEC schemes in the context of RMT protocols. It provides FEC Object Transport Information (OTI) formats for a couple of expected common FEC forms. A "No-Code" type is also specified that may be used for testing or other purpose. This document provides a template for developers that may wish to implement non-fully-specified FEC codes (as described in RFC5052) in RMT protocols presuming the FEC code matches one of the general types (Small Block, Large Block, etc) described in this document. Working Group Summary There is consensus in the WG to publish these documents. Document Quality The FEC basic scheme implementation has been used in working RMT NORM implementations to described Reed Solomon (RS) code variants until the fully-specified standard for RS Encoding was published. This is an update of the experimentally published version. Personal Brian Adamson is the Document Shepherd. Magnus Westerlund is the Responsible Area Director. Note to RFC Editor 3.2.2.2. OLD: Transfer-Length: a non-negative integer less than 2^^48. Encoding-Symbol-Length: a non-negative integer less than 2^^16. Maximum-Source-Block-Length: a non-negative integer less than 2^^32. NEW: Transfer-Length: a non-negative integer, less than 2^^48, indicating the length of the object in octets Encoding-Symbol-Length: a non-negative integer, less than 2^^16, indicating the length of each encoding symbol in octets Maximum-Source-Block-Length: a non-negative integer, less than 2^^32, indicating the maximum number of source symbols in a source block _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
