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["Michael H. Lambert" <>]

My understanding is that Abilene does plan to run an RP on one of the 
core routers.

Could someone please summarize embedded-RP to the list so that those of 
us who haven't been paying any attention to IETF multicast efforts will 
gain some clew?

Michael

On 1 Apr 2004, at 09:29, Bill Owens wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:06:15AM -0800, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:
> > The policy at this point is that Abilene isn't going
> > to run RPs or MSDP (peers) in the core routers for IPv6.
> > This doesn't preclude campuses from doing something
> > different but campuses should support IPv6 SSM.
>
> That sounds like a plan, though I think that embdedded-RP will likely 
> play a role as well. Although Abilene could run a v6 RP, of course 
> there's no choice to run MSDPv6 because there is no MSDPv6. 
> Unfortunately the Abilene core routers don't support embedded-RP, but 
> that's not suprising since it is still just a draft. I do expect that 
> *someone* will continue to run a global RP, and probably one for v4-v6 
> conversion, even after we transition to native v6 multicast.
>
> Bill.