Re: Re: can ssm and non-ssm colide ?

[Hugh Holbrook <holbrook@cisco.com>]

> From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
>
> Instead, I'd like to suggest the term "Source-Independent Multicast" 
> ("SIM").  This is not only more descriptive, but also more contrasts better 
> with "Source-Specific Multicast".

We used the term ISM in the first version of the SSM architecture
document.  Susequently, Brad and I both agreed that we didn't like it
very much for the reasons you mention.  We got a handful of
consultations and then we switched to Any-Source Multicast (ASM) to
describe the RFC1112 multicast model.  I like SIM well enough, but ASM
is pretty similar to SIM, to my thinking, and it appears now i
draft-holbrook-ssm-arch-00.txt.  I'm not inclined to change the name
again unless there is strong sentiment to do so.  Is there?

-Hugh