All things related to multicast

It does seem as though there are numerous pollutants that are built on the assumption that :

"there's no such thing as inter-domain multicast, unless it's on some obscure research network, or something"

( they probably assume the same things about IPv6.)

I suggest that some sort of "proof of sentient life" authorization scheme might be warranted, like sending coherent video on "Places All Over The World 128 kbps", if you want access to IGMP (or whatever the kids use these days). 

The result would kind of be like the Vulcan's reponse to a civilization developing its first warp drive. Still, REMEMBER THE PRIME DIRECTIVE.

Bill Owens <> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:43:26PM -0500, Brent Sweeny wrote:
it's been a while since we've discussed these here.
can we come to a consensus on a BCP that we could all accept as a base
for these lists, with local mods as desired?

Here's one suggestion based on what I saw in MSDP yesterday: 224.0.1.20. It's an assigned group address, "any private experiment" and the contact is Jon Postel, so technically it's valid. However, although we can't ask him what he meant by that assignment I think it is safe to bet that he didn't mean this: <https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2207507>  Apparently the Empower software is getting popular, since there are 140+ machines yapping away on that group. Curiously, they don't appear
to join it themselves, so they're all talking to thin air, but it does a nice job polluting the global MSDP table.

Bill.

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