All things related to multicast

[Guy T Almes <>]

David,
  This is an important set of issues.
  Please do follow up with Kevin.
        -- Guy

At 03:33 PM 6/30/99 -0700, David Meyer wrote:
>
>
>       Here's what I propose.
>
>       (i).    Let's use 239.0.0.0/8 for I2 scoped (non-global)
>               groups 
>
>       (ii).   Someone run a registry for the assignment
>               of this space (I think that depending on
>               sdr is too hard here, although such groups
>               could be annouced this way). 
>
>               Alternatively, we could use glop style address 
>               assignment to get started. I'm in favor of this since
>               everyone would know what they have, and there would
>               be no administrative overhead. You would also know
>               immediately which AS was sourcing the
>               group. References for glop style: 
>
>                 draft-ietf-mboned-static-allocation-00.txt 
>                 http://gigapop.uoregon.edu/glop
>
>       (iii).  Gigapops/customers leak 239/8 though both admin scope
>               boundaries and SA filters with I2 networks. I2
>               backbones must also forward (leak) packets and SAs
>               from 239/8. 
>
>
>       Comments?
>
>       Dave