All things related to multicast

[Andrew Gallo <>]

Greetings, multicast-wg friends:

Thank for a good conversation this afternoon.  The key points I'd like 
to summarize at this point are:

The NGI project is effectively clean-slating network configurations, and 
all configurations and protocols need to be re-justified;

Internet2 has, as part of its mission, a commitment to develop 
technologies that advance the state of networking technology;

Production multicast traffic (to put another way, traffic that, if 
disrupted, would result in a call to the NOC) on the I2 network is light.

The request I made at the end of the call: let's document the use cases. 
 The 'hard' uses cases of current, or imminent (if known) science uses 
workflows that use multicast on the backbone; and
the 'softer' use case of we, the I2 community, has a responsibility to 
maintain a testbed for protocol/application development and testing.

The second point I think specifically asked the interested industry 
partners and Internet2 peers to think about and communicate.

Thank you.


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Andrew Gallo
The George Washington University

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