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A frame ID is a string defined via the tf package. To display your point cloud in context with other messages, rviz needs a frame_id in the message Header to transform those data into the fixed frame.

You could just make up a frame ID to publish and select it as the rviz fixed frame, but following the REP-0105 naming conventions probably will work better.

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