Re: SSM, RTCP, SAP

[Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>]

Dear Jon;

   What did you have in mind ?

         Marshall

Jon Crowcroft wrote:
> 
> what about a GRA solution?
> 
> In message <200104192248.PAA15699@lorenzo-u10.cisco.com>, Lorenzo Vicisano ty
> ped:
> 
>  >>Marshall,
>  >>
>  >>> > 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).
>  >>> >
>  >>>
>  >>> IMHO this should not be a new protocol - it could easily be handled at the ap
>  >>>plication layer.
>  >>> Running these relay's sounds like a commercial matter to me. I would NOT add
>  >>>any router
>  >>> type support for this.
>  >>
>  >>I had in mind an application-level solution too, no router support:
>  >>the router support is ASM, where available.
>  >>
>  >>     Lorenzo
>  >>
> 
>  cheers
> 
>    jon

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