All things related to multicast

["Jill Gemmill" <>]

I realize that the focus of wg-multicast has been on wide area delivery, but 
we
might as well be thinking about how to deliver multicast from our campus CISCO
routers to end-users.

I gave a talk on this topic entitled: "Standards Based Delivery of IP 
Multicast
to the Desktop : A Progress Report" at the March '99 SURA Videoconferencing
workshop.

If you are interested, you can view powerpoint presentation at:

        http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~jgemmill/i2/SURAvide-3-99/sld001.htm

and, of course, I look forward to hearing any comments anyone may have.

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 Behalf Of Kevin C. Almeroth
  > Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 9:53 AM
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  > Subject: Las Cruces Summary
  >
  >
  >
  > I wanted to do a longer, detailed description of events at the vBNS/NLANR
  > Joint Techs meeting in Las Cruces this past week, but I'm running out
  > of energy, so I'll do my best to just summarize what happened.
  >
  > There were two meetings related to multicast.  The first was Sunday
  > afternoon where we talked about peering relationships and the status
  > of multicast in various networks.
  >
  > Hugh LaMaster talked about NREN...  which is now running PIM-SM and
  > is MSDP peering with the Ames MIX and vBNS in Chicago.  Randy Nicklas
  > gave a presentation about vBNS.  They have also recently upgraded
  > to PIM-SM and are MSDP peering with NREN and Merit, MBGP peering
  > with 8 sites, and providing MBGP translation with 20 other sites.
  > Steven Wallace talked about Abilene.  The story there is that they
  > had a version of Cisco IOS deployed (12.0.2.7S) that had a
  > point-to-multipoint bug in it so this weekend they are going to
  > try upgrading the IOS to see if the problem fixes.  There is significant
  > interest in moving rapidly to deploy multicast.  When multicast is
  > deployed several additional networks including CA*Net 2/3,
  > SURFnet, NREN, etc. are interested in MSDP peering.  The message is
  > that even though we are running in to some problems, we are on the
  > right track and should have native multicast deployed relatively
  > soon.
  >
  > I also gave a talk on Tuesday about the status of multicast and
  > some problems/solutions to multi-homing multicast.  You can see
  > the slides (if you are PPT capable) at:
  >
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/publish/VBNS-NLANR:NM-99.ppt

The next likely time for a meeting will be April 28th in DC at
the I2 member meeting.  I'll try to forward updates as they
occur.

Finally, if people on the list have topics they are interested in
discussing, please raise them.  Traffic on the list has been light
(which is not necessarily a bad thing), but worthy issues should
definitely be raised.

-Kevin Almeroth