All things related to multicast

[Michael Lambert <>]

What I would suggest is to resurrect the mulitcast working group with
the specific charge of producing a recommendation for one of David's
possibilities (or perhaps failing to reach a consensus and falling back
on apathy and attrition).

I can't argue with David's sense that we'll head for option 4, but I'd
like to at least see us try to work towards one of the other options.

Frank?  Dale?

Michael

David Farmer (via wg-multicast Mailing List) wrote on 2020/08/28 10:14:20:
> I'd like to suggest we create an NTAC work item on multicast, that
> being what is our current community recommendations for interdomain
> multicast.
> 
> I see 4 possibilities;
> 
> 1. Native SSM, with support on the Internet2 backbone as well.
> 2. AMT SSM, with no support for native SSM multicast on the Internet2
> backbone, but coordination of the effort.
> 3. Some Combination of 1 & 2, we will need to define what this means for
> the Internet2 backbone.
> 4. Completely Deprecate Interdomain Multicast Coordination within our
> community
> 
> Note #4 still allows individual entities to do AMT if they wish, there
> is just no community coordination of the effort or explicit support by
> the Interent2 or the backbone.
> 
> Honestly, I see us heading toward #4, and if that is where we want to go
> as a community, I'm ok with that. However, I would rather we decide that
> intentionally, than get there by attrition and apathy.
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> Thanks