I found a white paper written by Ikanos about G.INP, I don't think anything can be obtained from the Ikanos website itself without a login any more, but I found a copy
here.
It explains a bit about the development of G.INP, there were two different retransmission schemes, with the retransmission queues at different protocol layers within the modem. G.INP unified both standards, so that the equipment at one end can work with different equipment at the other end, even though exactly where they implement the retransmission may be different, the modem at one end doesn't even know at which layer the other end has implemented the retransmission. I think that's the reason the DTU payload contains an integer number of PTM fragments, and the DTU has to consist of an even number of RS codewords.