All things related to multicast

[Leonard Giuliano <>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Tim Chown wrote:

-) On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:38:27AM -0700, Greg Shepherd wrote:
-) > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Tim Chown 
<>
 wrote:
-) > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:46:28AM -0400, Alan Crosswell wrote:
-) > >> SAP considered harmful (because it is based on ASM).
-) > >>
-) > >> Folks, we need to move to something scalable, namely SSM, with 
learning
-) > >> about available sources out of band (e.g. via web pages).
-) > >>
-) > >> ASM must die.  Once we get to v6 there's just SSM anyway.
-) > >
-) > > Embedded-RP is working quite nicely here :)
-) > 
-) > ..with all the known security issues associated with ASM ipv4/v6.
-) > 
-) > ASM must die.
-) 
-) Please inform the offending vendors then :)
-) 

An attempt was made several years ago to deprecate ASM for IPv6 
(draft-giuliano-mboned-v6mcast-framework).  This proposal was not warmly 
received in MBoned (baby-seal-clubbing would have been more popular at the 
meeting).

Embedded RP has pretty much guaranteed that we will have to live with ASM 
in IPv6 for the forseeable future (forever).