All things related to multicast

[Leonard Giuliano <>]

There is much activity currently in IETF with P2MP LSPs, which can be used 
for forwarding mcast.  There are a number of drafts in the MPLS and other 
WGs.  The following includes the RSVP extensions and the signalling 
requirements specs, respectively:

draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-te-p2mp-02.txt
draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-sig-requirement-03.txt

-Lenny

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, McCallum, Robert wrote:

-) Folks,
-) 
-) Just trying to keep up to date with the developments on multicast over
-) mpls.  Simple question - are these the best offerings there are just
-) now?
-) 
-) draft-rosen-mpls-multicast-encaps-00.txt
-) draft-wijnands-mpls-ldp-mcast-ext-00.txt
-) 
-) I haven't read the rosen-mpls one yet (give me 10 minutes ;-)) but the
-) mpls-ldp - well confusion rains on me there as we run a core of SSM
-) nodes and couldn't see how that would work over my situation.
-) 
-) Anyhow - thoughts?  Better docs?
-) 
-) Cheers
-) 
-) Robert McCallum 
-)