Re: SSm, simple multicast and Express

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:

> 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!!! :-)

well, simplifying the number of senders to one, at a fixed location,
means that the protocol's got a slightly better chance of deployment.

And once you also simplify the number of receivers to one, at a fixed
location, chances of deployment will increase dramatically, not least
because it will be a far less dramatic change to the existing
infrastructure.

(Call it SSS - Super Simple Stream.)

L.

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