All things related to multicast

["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

How should sources decide on their multicast address? GLOP is a start, but is 
not granular enough...don't we need some global, automatic assignment vehicle 
(multicast "dhcp")? 

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Ross Finlayson 
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        Sent: Sun 5/23/2004 12:18 AM 
        To: wg-multicast 
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        Subject: Re: I rest my case
        
        


        >We need to have a standard directory that lists multicast sources. 

        No we don't.  Do we need "a standard directory that lists JPEG 
images"?  Do 
        we need "a standard directory that lists MPEG movies"?  Of course 
not. 

        All we need is people advertising their SSM sessions on their own web 
sites 
        - as links to SDP files (i.e., using the MIME type 
        "application/sdp").  There are already plenty of ways to find things 
on web 
        sites (i.e., search engines). 

        >We need to move to SSM. 

        Agreed. 


                Ross Finlayson 
                LIVE.COM 
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