Subject: [Raw] Document Action: 'L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS)' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-raw-ldacs-14.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:43:50 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS)'
  (draft-ietf-raw-ldacs-14.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Reliable and Available Wireless Working
Group.

The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Andrew Alston and John Scudder.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-raw-ldacs/

Technical Summary

This document provides an overview of the architecture of the L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS), which is a wireless communication standard defined outside of the IETF and relevant to the work at the RAW WG. LDACS provides a secure, scalable and spectrum efficient terrestrial data link for civil aviation, based on a scheduled, reliable multi-application cellular broadband system with support for IPv6. 
It is expected to become a data link of choice for IP network-based aircraft guidance for which the RAW properties of high reliability and availability are essential.

Working Group Summary

The process was as smooth as possible, with no contradiction over the mailing list or during meetings. The document is really the description by matter specialists of an externally-defined link-layer. It is a useful base for the RAW work and good information for the rest of us.

Document Quality

LDACS is an emerging technology; prototypes were presented, see https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9397802. The draft was written by the technology specialists. It is very readable and quite thorough. 

Personnel

Document Shepherd: Pascal Thubert 
Responsible Area Director: John Scudder