Last Modified: 2005-07-06
| Done | Submit design-space, building-blocks, and guidelines drafts for publication as Informational RFCs | |
| Done | Initial Drafts for the following building blocks: negative acknowledgments, forward error correction, a generic signaling mechanism for router assist, and transport protection | |
| Done | Submit Initial Drafts for the two protocol instantiations. | |
| Done | Submit Initial Draft for Congestion Control | |
| Done | Complete building-block drafts WG Last-Call and submit for publication as Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Complete building blocks and protocol instantiations for ALC and submit for publication as Experimental RFC | |
| Done | WG Decision on whether to pursue the router-assist building block work. These milestones may have to be modified accordingly | |
| Done | Submit WEBRC (congestion control building block) for publication as Experimental | |
| Done | Submit NACK building block and protocol instantiation for publication as Experimental | |
| Done | Evaluate when and how the RMT Experimental specifications will be submitted for publication as Proposed Standard, and update this charter accordingly | |
| Sep 05 | Submit remaining congestion control building blocks (TFMCC, PGMCC) for publication as Experimental | |
| Dec 05 | Submit all the RMT Eperimental Specifications published before July 05 for publication as Proposed Standard | |
| Apr 06 | Submit all remaining RMT Eperimental Specifications for publication as Proposed Standard |
| RFC | Status | Title |
|---|---|---|
| RFC2887 | I | The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data Transfer |
| RFC3048 | I | Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer |
| RFC3269 | I | Author Guidelines for RMT Building Blocks and Protocol Instantiation documents |
| RFC3450 | E | Asynchronous Layered Coding protocol instantiation |
| RFC3451 | E | Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block |
| RFC3452 | E | Forward Error Correction Building Block |
| RFC3453 | I | The use of Forward Error Correction in Reliable Multicast |
| RFC3695 | E | Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes |
| RFC3738 | E | Wave and Equation Based Rate Control building block |
| RFC3926 | E | FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport |
| RFC3940 | E | NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Protocol (NORM) |
| RFC3941 | E | NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Building Blocks |
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Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) WG
63rd IETF -- Paris, France Mon, August 1, 2005 Lorenzo Vicisano chairing Many thanks to Mark Pullen, Mark Watson and Rod Walsh for taking the minutes of the meeting. Meeting Agenda =============== Introduction Agenda Bashing Chairs WG status Updates Chairs Documents Moving towards Standard-Track Submission draft-ietf-rmt-pi-alc-revised-00 Lorenzo Vicisano draft-ietf-rmt-bb-lct-revised-00 Lorenzo Vicisano revising flute (rfc3926) Rod Walsh draft-ietf-rmt-fec-bb-revised-00 Mark Watson draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-00 Other WG (or possible WG) Documents draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptor-object-01 Mark Watson draft-roca-rmt-ldpc-00 Christoph Neumann draft-neumann-rmt-flute-file-aggregation-01 & Vincent Roca Possible New WG Work draft-faurite-rmt-tesla-for-alc-norm-00 Christoph Neumann & Vincent Roca draft-watson-tsgwg-fec-sf-00 Mark Watson Related Work draft-mehta-rmt-flute-sdp-03 Rod Walsh WG status Updates ================= See slides. WG goal is to get most of the Experimental drafts moved to Standard track by April 06. Stretch goal is to have all "pre-2nd-half-2005 EXP RFCs" to standard track before year end. Remaining items on todo list - Sep 05 submit TFMCC & PGMCC for Experimental RFC - Dec 05 submit RMT specifications published before July 05 for Standards track - Apr 05 submit remaining RMT specifications for Standards track Issue on TFMCC: went to WG last-call but there is an unresolved issue surfaced by Mark Pullen's student; author Joerg Widmer has been contacted but has not replied with resolution; Lorenzo will contact Widmer Move to Standard track issues - alc pi, lct, bb gone through initial revision. Need volunteers to complete the work. - RFC3926/FLUTE needs volunteers to revise (Rod Walsh volunteered). - NORM PI/BB and WEBRC CC also need volunteers (Brian Adamson volunteered). Possible new WG Item: applying TESLA to NORM and FLUTE For information: Mark Pullen's SRMP, out of scope for RMT but related, has been queued for Experimental RFC. FLUTE update for standard track - Rod Walsh =========================================== Maintain on-the-wire backward compatibility with "experimental" spec. Some comments received, will include, none major. FDT instance schema modified to support extensibility. "Sensible channel ID" only agreed. Discussion (inc. mail list) on whether to allow channels varying with both port and destination for a session seems to have consensus not to allow this (i.e. were multiple "port" channels per IP destination as well as multiple IP destinations would have been used). Allowing other-than-UDP-transport for LCT/ALC/FLUTE (TCP, DCCP, SCTP) was raised. Minimal positive (and no negative) response to the idea but no time for detailed discussion FLUTEbis I-D at the end of August (delayed at the time of writing) FEC building block update for standard track - Mark Watson ========================================================== Intend to maintain backward compatibility with existing RFC Collected a variety of proposed schemes into one document. No comments received on the drafts yet. One comment from meeting participants: use the Integer Logic algorithm to avoid pitfalls in the floating-point one (defined in flute) for the object source blocks. Need to remove this piece of specification from flute. Raptor FEC scheme - Mark Watson =============================== Agreed last WG meeting to be WG item. Since then code was adopted by 3GPP for file delivery and streaming. Updated draft with fixes/alignment published. Discussion on assignment of FEC ID and avoid un-necessary changes since the 3GPP spec has already been published. Discussion also on whether the IETF spec can point to the 3GPP spec. One possibility is to use the IETF Spec only to allocate the FEC ID (with IANA consideration) and to refer to the 3GPP spec for the algorithm. Mark Watson to look into this issue. apart from this, document is OK for WG last-call. Discussion on how new FEC ID will be established when RMT shuts down: different proposals examined: new WG, do it in TSWG, do it in different WGs. LDPC FEC scheme - Vincent Roca ============================== Submitted FEC draft as under-specified as many variants can be defined. Lorenzo asked them to consider recasting this as fully specified for one or two variants. Discussion on possible IPR that Digital Fountain has disclosed on this. Vincent reports that DF has not pointed them to specifics. Need to discuss on the mailing list whether this should be WG Item and whether there should be a fully specified ID. Rod Walsh: encouraged people to submit FEC schemes (and WG to welcome them) - thinks there should be 10 or more fully-specified whereas there are only two so far. File Aggregation Scheme for FLUTE- Christoph Neumann ==================================================== Need to decide on the list whether this will be a WG Item. TESLA for ALC/NORM - Vincent Roca ================================= discussion on: - whether the draft should be split into a generic part (to be worked on in MSEC) and a ALC/NORM specific part to be worked on in RMT. - Canetti (MSEC chair) thinks it should not be split, doesn't matter whether is don in RMT or MSEC. RMT and MSEC chairs agreed that this work should be done in close coordination between the WGs. FEC Streaming Framework - Mark Watson ===================================== Meeting very short on time, so draft announced and discussion will be in TSVWG FLUTE SDP - Rod Walsh ===================== This a non-WG document, supported by the WG. The document is in fast track for its 3GPP dependency. Authors to incorporate comments received on SDP correctness. Ready for WG LC (simultaneous in RMT and MMUSIC) once the generalized channel aspects (CS - "compound session" grouping) is included and verified bugless New I-D in September |