The IESG has received a request from the Reliable Multicast Transport WG (rmt) to consider the following document: - 'RaptorQ Forward Error Correction Scheme for Object Delivery' <draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq-06.txt> as a 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 2011-06-17. 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. This is a second IETF Last Call. At IESG request, an updated IPR disclosure related to this document was filed by Qualcomm Incorporated to clarify the licensing terms vis-a-vis different applications of the technology. See the following link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1553/ Because of this updated IPR disclosure, an additional RMT Working Group Last Call was conducted. The only resultant working group email discussion to the revised IPR was that it was an improvement in that it more clearly covered unicast as well as multicast use cases of the technology. The following URL points to the mailing list archive message thread regarding this additional WGLC: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rmt/current/msg01547.html Although IPR is in place, this forward error correction technique is just one of several types that the RMT WG has specified and other, unencumbered techniques have been defined. Thus, the RMT WG had previously discussed this matter concluding that it wished to publish this document regardless of the IPR since this new FEC code is one of multiple alternatives that can be used to implement the RMT higher-level protocols, as such the possible IPR covering this does not preclude the unencumbered implementation of the RMT Protocols. The IPR licensing terms presented by Qualcomm appear to be reasonable. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq/ _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
