All things related to multicast

[David Meyer <>]

> Hope I am not speaking out of line on this list.

        No way, not in my opinion anyway.

> I think that 'end' AS entities will ultimately want to use the
> 239.192.0.0/26 space for AS "organization-scoped" and
> "organization-site-scoped" applications, eg. local lab file restore
> applications, local content broadcasting.  Now I know that ttl scoping of

        Is there an application that is using this now? I ask
        as /26 is odd for this space.

> the source could be used also, but not all apps may behave well on this
> issue.  Also, many local apps may not participate in sdr, etc. so end AS
> will have a desire to have a usable preallocated private mcast group
> space.

        That's why I suggested glop. We can do it on /10 too,
        but not as nicely.

        Dave