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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document IETF RFC 2733 (1999) in draft H.721
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: IETF RFC 2733 (1999)
Title: An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction, December 1999
2. Status of approval:
Normative
3. Justification for the specific reference:
IETF RFC2733 deals with FEC format used in IPTV terminal devices.
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
Information on IPR issues regarding RFCs is available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/. Specifically: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=rfc_search&rfc_search=2733
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
This RFC has been in existence since December 1999
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
RFC 2733 was published in December, 1999. It is a standards-track document and is currently in the "Proposed Standard" state. Current standards status of this document can be found at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/std/std1.txt
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
RFC 2733 is a basic component of the basic suite of internet protocols and standards and is widely used by the internet community.
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
[1] J.C. Bolot and A. V. Garcia, "Control mechanisms for packet audio in the internet," in Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom) , (San Francisco, California), Mar.1996./
[2] Perkins, C. and O. Hodson, "Options for Repair of Streaming media", RFC 2354, June 1998./
[3] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R. and V. Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", RFC 1889, January 1996./
[4] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to indicate requirement levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997./
[5] Perkins, C., Kouvelas, I., Hodson, O., Hardman, V., Handley, M., Bolot, J.C., Vega-Garcia, A. and S. Fosse-Parisis, "RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data", RFC 2198, September 1997./
[6] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description Protocol", RFC 2327, April 1998./
[7] Schulzrinne, H., Rao, A. and R. Lanphier, "Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)", RFC 2326, April 1998.
9. Qualification of ISOC/IETF:
9.1-9.6     Decisions of ITU Council to admit ISOC to participate in the work of the Sector (June 1995 and June 1996).
9.7     The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is responsible for ongoing maintenance of the RFCs when the need arises. Comments on RFCs and corresponding changes are accommodated through the existing standardization process.
9.8     Each revision of a given RFC has a different RFC number, so no confusion is possible. All RFCs always remain available on-line. An index of RFCs and their status may be found in the IETF archives at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html.
10. Other (for any supplementary information):
References should always be made to RFC numbers (and not by other designations such as STD, BCP, etc.). References not to be made to documents referred to as "Internet Drafts" or RFCs categorized as "Historic". Normative references should not be made to RFCs that are not standards, for example, "Informational" and "Experimental" RFCs.
Note: This form is based on Recommendation ITU-T A.5