Re: SSM, RTCP, SAP

[Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Lorenzo Vicisano wrote:

> I don't know of anything similar for SAP, but I don't think we should
> re-invent an ad-hoc routing protocol just for this. We should either
> use the existing ASM multicast service, if present, or SSM + application
> modifications (e.g. a set of relays that accept unicast SAP messages and
> remulticast them. Relays will have all to listen to each other
> announcements .. ect.. there are scalability concerns but seems feasible).

I see no reason not to use ASM-based SAP for announcements, but,
the canonical announcement mechanism for SSM would be the web,
would it not?

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