on the opportunity to design an alternative to FLUTE

Hello,

During the RMT meeting, today morning, it was decided to ask the RMT members
their opinion on the opportunity to continue the work on an alternative 
to FLUTE
for which an IPR has been disclosed in June 2006 (see below for the 
details).
If feasible, this alternative application could be designed so that it 
works on both ALC
and NORM.

If it turns out that there is an interest, the sub-question is the 
following:
  Are there volunteers to work on the subject in order to design an 
alternative that
  bypasses the FLUTE patents?

Don't hesitate to speak up.
Cheers,

  Vincent.


** Nokia's IPR disclosures  related to FLUTE:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/733/
but also:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/517/   (FLUTE and SDP)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/635/   (file aggregation for FLUTE)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/731/   (RFC 3926)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/102/   (the original IPR disclosure, 
Feb. 2003)

** IETF position W.R.T. IPR:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3668.txt?number=3668
 
** Minutes of IETF67 RMT meeting, where this point has been raised
(see item 6, "open discussion"):
http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06nov/minutes/rmt.html

**More information on the FCAST proposal is available here:
http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/rmt-0/sld1.htm
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-roca-rmt-newfcast-00