[Rmt] FEC ID allocation

[Lorenzo Vicisano <lorenzo at cisco.com>]

At the Vancouver meeting we had a discussion on possibly revising the
strategy for allocating FEC Encoding IDs. The discussion was
inconclusive and hence it was decided to bring this issue to the list,
starting a 1-week WG last-call on it.

The current strategy for allocating FEC Encoding IDs is

  A) IETF-Consensus, i.e. requiring an IETF RFC that specifies all the
     requested information (see draft-ietf-rmt-fec-bb-revised-02) and that
     instructs IANA to assign a specific ID.

One alternative proposal on the table was to transform IETF consensus into

  B) Standard Action, i.e. requiring a Standard-Track IESG approved
     RFC

Another was:

  C) IETF-Consensus OR [ Specification-Required AND Expert Review ],
     i.e. allow also non IETF specification to assign IDs subject to Expert
     Review.

I would like to hear any opinion on these options by Wed November 30th.
Please check the meeting minutes for additional background information.

Note that the strategy for allocating FEC Instance IDs is "First Come
First Served" and is not being discussed here.

	thank you,
	Lorenzo
     

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