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[Marshall Eubanks <>]

Dave;

David Meyer wrote:

> > > What, exactly, is the plan to make IPv6 multicast multidomain ? Will 
> > > BGMP come back from the dead ? Or will MSDP-NG rear its head ?
>
> No.
>
>
> > > If nothing is done, then someone will port MSDP to IPv6, and it will be
> > > deja vu all over again.
>
> I guess if a vendor thinks they can sell it...
>
>
> > > 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.
>
> I would have to say that IMO neither is the solution.



Any suggestions, then ?

We have as options :

- MSDP - not the protocol one would want, but it could be ported almost 
trivially.

- BMGP - unless I got unsubcribed from this wg list, there has been no
public activity for months here. Everytime I ask anyone who should know,
it is declared DOA

- something else ? I would urge this, and I would urge it be built from 
the ashes of MSDP, as this has operational experience.

- nothing - ASM dies in the general IPv6 Internet, and SSM is used to 
make "ASM like" protocols. This might work, as most (not all) ASM 
applications are small group many to many with known (or knowable) 
sources, and so could be emulated by SSM (I am thinking of 
teleconferencing apps like the AccessGrid.)


> Dave


Marshall

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