Re: Why MSDP?

[Dino Farinacci <dino@procket.com>]

>> John,
>> One of the things that I think we might have come to consensus on at the
>> IETF on Tuesday is to start calling the multicast service model defined in
>> RFC 1112 as "Any-Source Multicas" (ASM) hereafter (instead of ISM or

    Now that we're talking about names, Any-Source-Multicast presumes that
    SSM can't have multiple sources. You can certainly have a small conference
    with 3 participants which are each sourcing data, each using their own
    source-tree.

    But I'm in favor of keeping acroynms as simple as possible, so I would
    suggest:

	SSM - single source multicast (because changing this will really
                                       confuse people - again)
        OM  - original multicast

Dino