IP over DVB (ipdvb) -WG CLOSED

Brief Introduction

These web pages are maintained on behalf of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ipdvb Working Group (in the IETF Internet Area). Details of the activities of this WG can be found in the ipdvb WG Charter.. The WG is now closed, further work if needed will be undertaken in the IETF INTAREA.

The work of the ipdvb WG related to the use of IPv4/IPv6 over the MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) and other Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) link technology. The MPEG-2 system was defined by the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and has been standardised by the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The MPEG-2 TS provides a transmission network that has become widely used to support digital TV broadcast, including: DVB, ATSC, ISDB. These and related standards define a set of commercially available mass-produced components that are increasingly used to provide a general-purpose packet transmission network that are used to build IP subnetworks. A related set of DVB standards specify Generic Stream Enacapsulation (GSE) that provdies IP-only transmission. GSE and ULE share a common Type field and extension header formats, allowing the same set of extensions to be used in both encapsulations.

The ipdvb WG was one of many IETF Internet Area groups that develop protocols and documents for IPv4 and IPv6 over a range of lower layer network technologies. These are often collectively called "IP over foo" activities within the IETF, and have included Ethernet, Infiniband, 802.16/WiMax, IP over Resilient Packet Rings, IPv6 over Low power WPAN and other technologies.

The work of ipdvb is conducted via a WG mailing list that is hosted at [email protected]. This is used to discuss questions relating to protocols, operational use of IP services over MPEG-2/DVB networks, status of standarisation, and the issues relating to the specification and development of IP services. The list may be joined by sending an email to "[email protected]". The subject field and body of the message are ignored.

This is a public mailing list for technical discussions only and governed by IETF Mailing List Rules.

An archive of the mailing list will is available for public down load (see below) and is also archived at ietf.org.

References stored here should be free of company IPR claims and have been offered to this site to help with production of Open Internet standards.

• The ipdvb WG Charter
• The WG Status

  Document Archives

  • The mailing list email archive
  • Minutes / Presentations of Meetings
  • List of Known Implementations
  • Erata page for RFC4236

  Useful links for WG members:

  • IETF WG Procedures
  • The IETF Standards Process

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  Useful Links/Tools for WG participants

  Useful links for Authors and Editors:

  • IETF Guidelines to authors of Internet-Drafts
  • IETF Internet Draft Check List
  • IETF Internet-Drafts Status Tracker
  • IETF Internet-Drafts Status Summary Page
  • WG Internet-Draft File archive (sorted in alphabetical order of filename)

  Key resources for Authors and Editors (mainly from the IETF Tools page)

  • Tools for writing / reviewing Internet Drafts & RFCs
  • Idnits tool - for checking new draft submissions.
  • RFC Diff (reads two versions of an internet-draft, strips out page headers and footers and produces a side-by-side html difference).
  • List of all published RFCs formatted as RFC References

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  For more information contact:
  
  Gorry Fairhurst
  (ipdvb WG Chair)
  Department of Engineering
  University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  [email protected]
  
  Martin Stiemerling 
  (ipdvb WG Secretary)
  
  NEC Europe Limited 

  22nd February 2011