All things related to multicast

["Kevin C. Almeroth" <>]

Well, I've been very careful not to exclude work on IPv6 ASM...  just
to say that SSM is a lower hanging fruit and it will be the first place
we start.

As for the value of ASM, it certainly has a niche.  The point though
is to separate ASM from MSDP and come up with some additional options.
'Cause right now, ASM using MSDP stinks.  So maybe that second option
moves the source discovery functionality out of the network.

-Kevin



On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Alan Crosswell wrote:

>>SSM is great for one-way media streaming and WWW guides probably work just
>>fine for that.  However, there is still a small niche of ASM-oriented
>>apps that are not geared to a human user clicking on a web link.  My fear
>>is that the focus on doing SSM exclusively will set these back.  In fact,
>>the whole source discovery process is intrinsically an ASM thing which is
>>kludged up today with multiple-unicast (WWW and CDN's that are needed for
>>large site just 'cuz of the scaling issues which multicast solves).
>>
>>/a
>>