All things related to multicast

[David Meyer <>]

Z,

>>      "MSDP IS A KLUDGE THAT WAS THOUGHT UP ON THE SPUR OF
>>      THE MOMENT TO GET AROUND SOME SILLY POLITICAL ISSUES
>>      THAT THE ISP'S THINK ARE IMPORTANT.  IT WAS NEVER INTENDED,
>>      AND SHOULD NEVER HAVE ATTAINED, THE STATUS IT HAS NOW
>>      OF BEING A 'REAL' PROTOCOL  DESTINED FOR ITS OWN RFC."  
>> If no one else is willing to sing along with me, then how can I tell you 
>> to shut
>> the MSDP working group down?  I can't.

Well, the IETF is consensus based, in theory anyway. So your
voice/opinion is as valued as anyone else's. If you really
believe this (I'm not sure what to do with MSDP; it just appears
as a massive energy sink/blackhole to me at the moment), then we
should take it up in honest discussion. I perceive the problem to
be something like "many people still want ASM-like functionality
in a multicast service model" and we don't have anything to offer
them (and don't say BGMP; bidir PIM maybe? but we don't have a
well developed inter-domain model for this, yet). Maybe I'm wrong
about that. Someone correct me if so.

Dave