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[Marshall Eubanks <>]

An on topic post !

Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:

> 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.


What, exactly, is the plan to make IPv6 multicast multidomain ? Will 
BGMP come back from the dead ? Or will MSDP-NG rear its head ?

If nothing is done, then someone will port MSDP to IPv6, and it will be
deja vu all over again.

Unless some vendor is going to jump on BGMP in a big way, I would urge 
that work begin immediately to make MSDP into something that will last.

Just my $ 0.02 worth.

Marshall


> -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


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