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[Michael H Lambert <>]

I don't hear any dirges playing.

David Farmer (via wg-multicast Mailing List) wrote on 2020-08-27 21:09:
> WOOHOO! It is official Interdomain ASM Multicast is Deprecated.
> 
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> From: < <>>
> Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 6:34 PM
> Subject: [MBONED] BCP 229, RFC 8815 on Deprecating Any-Source Multicast
> (ASM) for Interdomain Multicast
> To: < <>>,
> < <>>
> Cc: < <>>,
> < <>>,
> < <>>
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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>         BCP 229       
>         RFC 8815
> 
>         Title:      Deprecating Any-Source Multicast (ASM) for
>                     Interdomain Multicast
>         Author:     M. Abrahamsson,
>                     T. Chown,
>                     L. Giuliano,
>                     T. Eckert
>         Status:     Best Current Practice
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       August 2020
>         Mailbox:     <>,
>                      <>,
>                      <>,
>                      <>
>         Pages:      14
>         See Also:   BCP 229
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-mboned-deprecate-interdomain-asm-07.txt
> 
>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8815
> 
>         DOI:        10.17487/RFC8815
> 
> This document recommends deprecation of the use of Any-Source
> Multicast (ASM) for interdomain multicast. It recommends the use of
> Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) for interdomain multicast
> applications and recommends that hosts and routers in these
> deployments fully support SSM.  The recommendations in this document
> do not preclude the continued use of ASM within a single organization
> or domain and are especially easy to adopt in existing deployments of
> intradomain ASM using PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM).
> 
> This document is a product of the MBONE Deployment Working Group of the
> IETF.
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