Re: SSm, simple multicast and Express

[almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu (Kevin C. Almeroth)]

Well, Express was never a draft...  it was a research paper.

Simple was a draft but would have required a wholesale change in the infrastructure.

SSM is based on PIM and so is less dramatic a change to the existing infrastructure.

<humor on>

Maybe SSM stands for SUPER Simple Multicast!!! :-)

What is wrong with ISM?  Does it stand for Independent Source Multicast?!?  :-)

<humor off>

-Kevin


>>Ali Boudani wrote:
>>
>>> If I understood well (maybe), SSM has replaced Simple Multicast and
>>> EXPRESS
>>> But what was the problem in those 2 protocoles??
>>>
>>> thanx
>>
>>The only problem is, they weren't adopted.
>>
>>(i.e., there is nothing fundamentaly wrong with them that I know of, things just
>>evolved differently.)
>>
>>                                 Regards
>>                                 Marshall Eubanks