A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6953 Title: Protocol to Access White-Space (PAWS) Databases: Use Cases and Requirements Author: A. Mancuso, Ed., S. Probasco, B. Patil Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: May 2013 Mailbox: amancuso@google.com, scott@probasco.me, basavpat@cisco.com Pages: 23 Characters: 53560 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-paws-problem-stmt-usecases-rqmts-15.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6953.txt Portions of the radio spectrum that are assigned to a particular use but are unused or unoccupied at specific locations and times are defined as "white space". The concept of allowing additional transmissions (which may or may not be licensed) in white space is a technique to "unlock" existing spectrum for new use. This document includes the problem statement for the development of a protocol to access a database of white-space information followed by use cases and requirements for that protocol. Finally, requirements associated with the protocol are presented. This document is a product of the Protocol to Access WS database Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC