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[Rmt] Protocol Action: 'Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block' to Proposed Standard
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block '
<draft-ietf-rmt-bb-lct-revised-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Reliable Multicast Transport Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-lct-revised-11.txt
Technical Summary
This document is an RMT Building Block that specifies protocol headers
and procedures useful for building a reliable multicast transport
protocol that can employ packet-level forward error correction (FEC)
coding to enable massively- scalable, reliable, unidirectional network
data transport without requiring receiver feedback. Layered Coding
Transport is specifically designed to support protocols using IP
multicast, but also provides support to protocols that use unicast.
Layered Coding Transport is compatible with congestion control that
provides multiple rate delivery to receivers.
Working Group Summary
There is consensus in the WG to publish this documents.
Document Quality
The document is of high quality and has been subject to extensive
review in its Internet Draft and Experimental RFC forms. The
revised draft represents a small number of changes from the original
Experimental RFC 3451.
Open source implementations of the LCT protocol are available and
considerable experience in using this protocol has been accumulated.
The protocol has been adopted by the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
industry consortium for content delivery.
The content of this document was already reviewed and approved for
publication as experimental RFC 3451. This document contains minor
technical modifications.
Personnel
Brian Adamson is the Document Shepherd.
Magnus Westerlund is the Responsible Area Director.