The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Simple LDPC-Staircase Forward Error Correction (FEC) Scheme for FECFRAME' (draft-ietf-fecframe-ldpc-04.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the FEC Framework Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Martin Stiemerling and Wesley Eddy. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-fecframe-ldpc/ Technical Summary This document describes a fully-specified simple FEC scheme for LDPC-Staircase codes that can be used to protect media streams along the lines defined by the FECFRAME framework. Working Group Summary There is consensus within the FECFrame WG to publish this document. The document has been actively discussed on the wg list and in wg meetings. There was no controversy with the progression of this document. Document Quality Performance evaluation of this: K. Matsuzono, J. Detchart, M. Cunche, V. Roca, H. Asaeda, ``Performance Analysis of a High-Performance Real-Time Application with Several AL-FEC Schemes", 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 2010 (LCN 2010), October 2010. (PDF) Personnel Greg Shepherd is the document shepherd and Martin Stiemerling is the responsible Area Director.