IETF 72 RMT WG Minutes
Tuesday, 29 July 2008 
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1) Agenda Bashing
   The agenda was accepted without comment.

2) Working Group Progress 

   The WG Chairs presented the following documents' status and
   there was discussion on each:

   a) The publication of "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-ldpc" as RFC 5170
      was announced.

   b) The following documents have been submitted for publication:
      - The "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-rs" is dependent upon completion of the
        revised "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised" document.
      - The "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised" is pending
        minor editorial corrections.
      - The "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-revised" document has some IESG
        comments that are being resolved.

   c) The "draft-ietf-rmt-pi-norm-revised-06" document just recently 
      expired and is ready for publication.  The editor (Brian Adamson) is 
      making some changes consistent with IESG comments on the submitted 
      "NORM BB" document and will post an updated document and submit for 
      publication.

   d) The "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-lct-revised-07" was recently posted and is 
      ready to be submitted for publication pending WG Chair review.

   e) The documents "draft-ietf-rmt-sec-discussion-02" and 
      "draft-roca-rmt-newfcast-02" were updated and were discussed 
      later in the meeting (see below).

   f) The documents "draft-ietf-rmt-pi-alc-revised-05" and 
      "draft-ietf-rmt-flute-revised-05" are in need of attention
      and the mailing list and document authors will be polled
      for status and to ensure that the documents are being worked.
      Brian Adamson will post the applicable excerpt on the IPsec-based
      approach to security from the NORM PI that can also be applied
      to ALC.  If additional volunteers are needed to complete the work
      on these documents, the current authors are requested to identify 
      this.
     
3) The "RMT Security Issues" draft was presented.  The document was updated
   and some simplifications were made to sections discussing group security
   management, etc that might be addressed by other work in the MSEC
   working group.  There was consensus that the RMT Security Issues
   document could be useful as a non-normative informational document
   that can be addressed by future RMT protocol specifications.  It is
   possible that the current NORM and ALC PI documents might reference 
   this document if it can be completed quickly.  The document authors 
   agreed to try to complete the work quickly to support this goal.

4) Vincent Roca provided an "Update on LDPC Decoding Techniques" that 
   were added as reference and slightly impacted the LDCP document while
   it was in IESG review.  The published RFC reflects support for these
   techniques and Vincent provided a summary of the performance advantages
   that these offer.

5) The new FCAST document was presented that describes a limited object   
   (e.g., file) transmission application using either the ALC or NORM 
   protocols.  The RMT mailing list needs to be polled to see if there
   is sufficient WG interest to justify adding this work to the RMT
   working group charter.  The working group priorities remain with 
   completing existing work (NORM, ALC, FLUTE) but this additional
   work may have merit if there is sufficient interest.

6) Open Discussion, Related Work & Announcements:
   Vincent Roca indicated that an update to the "Simple Authentication"
   document ("draft-roca-rmt-simple-auth-for-alc-norm") will be available 
   soon.  Per the previous IETF meeting, this will now be submitted as a WG 
   document.  There was discussion with regards to making this Working Group 
   document.  The mailing list will be polled to confirm that there is 
   consensus for this action.  Vincent also mentioned that a new version of 
   the relevant MSEC TESLA document is also almost complete.