The IESG has approved the following document: - 'RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Block for Burst/Gap Loss metric Reporting' (draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-burst-gap-loss-12.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Metric Blocks for use with RTCP's Extended Report Framework Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gonzalo Camarillo and Richard Barnes. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-burst-gap-loss/ Technical Summary This document defines an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Block that allows the reporting of Burst and Gap Loss metrics for use in a range of RTP applications. Working Group Summary The WG path of this document was reasonably short and efficient. Several technical comments were made during the reviews and all were resolved with consensus. Document Quality At least one vendor has implemented this draft. It is expected that with the approval of this document the number of implementations will increase. Personnel Dan Romascanu is the Document Shepherd. Gonzalo Camarillo is the Responsible Area Director.