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[David Meyer <>]

>> > If ASM is going away, should we give up on MSDP (from the
>> > standards perspective)? I'm struggling with this problem right
>> > now. If we give up, what should we do with (i). what's deployed,
>> > and (ii). the current spec?
>> 
>> IMHO, if you put your "oomph" behind SSM, you can probably
>> stop worrying about ever finishing MSDP.  But that means you
>> have to really push it Dave.  I mean be vocal and demanding
>> and generally an a-- like I feel I'm doing now.
>> 
>> I did say to Lucy that there would be a place for MSDP but it
>> was assuming that ASM isn't going to go away completely
>> (and it might not, but I don't have the imagination to see why it
>> shouldn't)
>> 
>> And the many-to-many problem still exists that has to be
>> solved in the interdomain environment.   ie how do you deploy
>> bi-dir pim across the internet?

Uh, Z, have you checked out how much "oomph" I have these days? I
don't think you'd be too impressed :-)

But seriously, I would like to find the solution to the MSDP
quandry, in the IETF at least. 

Dave